Conversations With Chávez and Castro
Sean Penn : The Cuban President talks about Obama, Guantánamo and the Pentagon; the Venezuelan President considers human rights and the next US administration.
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The Editors, on the stimulus package, Mark Engler on the new gilded age, Calvin Trillin on Detroit's jet set
Articles
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How to Save Motor City
Marissa Colón-Margolies : Letting Detroit fail: catastrophic. Transforming it into a lean green machine-maker: visionary.
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Election's Over--Time to Begin
Michael Pertschuk : How millions of Obama volunteers can go to work for a progressive agenda.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Stimulus Now
: On Day One, Congress must present Obama with a bold stimulus plan focused on putting people to work, rebuilding infrastructure and expanding the productive capacity of the economy.
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Bonfire of the Vanities
William Greider : Timothy Geithner is responsible for much of the generous deal-making now underway with Wall Street. If Obama's not careful, he will be blamed.
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Moving Obama
Katrina vanden Heuvel : Progressives need to be as clear-eyed, tough and pragmatic about Obama as he is about us.
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Noted.
: Kudos to Minnesota's recount process; and kudos to Van Jones, 2008 recipient of the $100,000 Puffin/Nation Prize for green economy activism.
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Hands Off the UAW
John Nichols : If he keeps his promises to autoworkers, Obama has the chance to renew the ability of organzed labor to improve the lot of union and non-union workers in the twenty-first century.
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Don't Repackage Gitmo!
Michael Ratner & Jules Lobel : Shutting down Guantánamo is long overdue. We shouldn't recreate it by another name.
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The Fall of Triumphalism
Michael T. Klare : Because of the hubris of Bush and Cheney, we face a world of multiplied dangers, emboldened challengers and a paucity of reliable allies.
Reviews
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Stolen Kisses
Laura Secor : Is sexual promiscuity in Iran a sign of political ferment or of an unmoored generation's dissipated energies?
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The House Folds
Max Fraser : Without a commitment to affordable housing for all, the ownership society remains a myth for many Americans.
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Spreading the Wealth
Mark Engler : Amid the ruins of a new gilded age, the devalued and depressed American people are ready to demand more.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
The Three Bozos of the Apocalypse
Calvin Trillin : The automotive jet set goes to Washington.
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
Refs, Worked (Redux)
Eric Alterman : CBS News and the Washington Post go into overtime expunging liberal bias.
Crossword
Web
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Mumbai's 9/11 Meme
Lakshmi Chaudhry : We have much to fear from easy evocations of 9/11, but in India, it is a call to the world to recognize their loss.
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Prop 8: The Musical
Funny or Die : Hollywood stars like Jack Black, John C. Reilly and Neil Patrick Harris parody the absurdity of the religious right's pro-Prop 8 position...in song.
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TruthDig
Can Obama Stay the Course?
Robert Scheer : As he drives his team of retreads, the challenge for Obama is to remain the agent of change who electrified the nation.
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The Short of It
'Lost as Food and Won as a Coast'
Barry Schwabsky : Is a new, computer-generated poetry anthology as intriguing--and boring--as the lifework of any fairly prolific poet?
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Beyond the Bailout State
Steve Fraser : If original thinking doesn't find a home among the Obama administration's Clinton-era Brainiacs, how can we move beyond the bailout state?
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Rethinking the Canadian Exit Strategy
Will Di Novi : For years, disenchanted US progressives figured they could always move to Canada. But Canadians, stuck with a conservative government, may now be eyeing America.
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Iraq Pact Challenges Antiwar Movement
Tom Hayden : The US-Iraq Security Pact signals the war is ending--though not soon enough--and challenges peace activists to broaden their agenda against new quagmires.
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Imagining a New New Deal
Radio Nation : Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself weigh in on the troubled economy.
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Peace Prize Comes With Criticism
Barbara Crossette : As Martti Ahtisaari receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo today, it's clear that the hard work of peacemaking does not guarantee universal acclaim.
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Beats, Rhymes and Votes
Jamilah King Vote Hip-Hop contest winners rap and work for change.
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ACORN Accusations: How the Right Got It Wrong
Ivan Natividad A young ACORN organizer reflects on negative media sensationalism and how it affected this so-called "radical" group of community organizers.
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Chipotle: Not So Hot for Farmworkers
Shona Clarkson Do farmworkers deserve to be treated as human beings? For Chipotle Mexican Grill, the jury is still out.
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Silence Broken: How Not to Spoil Obama's Victory
Kameelah Rasheed Even if Barack Obama is not everything you want in a president, his victory still warrants a full-hearted celebration.
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Thailand in Chaos
Barbara Crossette : Its airports shut, Thailand is now ungovernable, as an educated elite attempts to overthrow the populist government it couldn't defeat at the ballot box.
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Change Immigrants and Labor Can Believe In
David Bacon : The Obama administration should embrace progressive tactics to protect human and workplace rights.
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Candace Gingrich Discusses Prop 8
Countdown : Newt Gingrich's sister speaks out about her brother's homophobia and the backlash to Prop 8 in California.
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Howl
State Banks Could Solve Financial Crisis
Nicholas von Hoffman : Forget big bailouts. The fed should finance non-profit state banks like the Bank of North Dakota--no profit means no reason for bankers to misbehave--to get real money to real people in the real economy.
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Sean Penn Reflects on Chávez and Castro
Brett Story & VideoNation : Actor-director Sean Penn debunks the many myths surrounding Cuba's Raúl Castro and Venezuela's Hugo Chávez.
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