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Politics: The Little Administration That Couldn't

Fri, 2008-03-28 14:02
Tom Engelhardt At the hour of our latest and greatest crisis, don't expect anything of this bunch but the usual heck of a job.

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A Social Bailout

Thu, 2008-03-27 10:51
Robin Blackburn | Let's reinvent progressive economic policy, starting with a sovereign wealth fund to deal with urgent social needs.

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The Big One?

Thu, 2008-03-27 10:46
Jeff Faux | Arcane financial instruments and unregulated Wall Street greed could plunge us into the next Great Depression.

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Books & the Arts: Internal Combustion

Thu, 2008-03-27 10:15
Melissa Holbrook Pierson | Could Russell Banks, seasoned man's writer, be retooling himself as a fabulist?

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Books & the Arts: A Nurse of Enchantment

Thu, 2008-03-27 10:12
Ange Mlinko | Helen Adam wrote to raise gooseflesh. A new collection of her work takes her on her own terms.

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Books & the Arts: One Sun Roaring

Thu, 2008-03-27 10:08
Jordan Davis | The Zen reflections in Philip Whalen's poetry have been collected in one beautiful book.

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Voter-Generated Advertising

Thu, 2008-03-27 07:24
Ari Melber | Can't get enough political ads? A new venture allows voters to launch their own TV campaigns.

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How Green Is Your Collar?

Wed, 2008-03-26 16:07
Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello & Brendan Smith | Labor leaders and environmentalists consider how green jobs can be good jobs for US workers.

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Politics: War of The Word

Wed, 2008-03-26 07:53
Robert Scheer | Why the fuss over Obama's pastor when biblical damnation for bad behavior is made in both black and white churches?

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Books & the Arts: Victim 'Hood

Tue, 2008-03-25 09:11
Chris Lehmann | An account of the most recent installment in the nation's sick love affair with literary exhibitionists.

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Politics: Progressives for Obama

Tue, 2008-03-25 05:01
Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher Jr., Barbara Ehrenreich & Danny Glover | The future has arrived: progressives can make a difference to ensure Barack Obama is our next President.

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Hillary's Economic Plan

Mon, 2008-03-24 17:52
William Greider | Her solution to the mortgage meltdown and Wall Street's woes is déjà vu all over again.

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Winter Soldiers

Mon, 2008-03-24 10:27
Laila Al-Arian | As US military casualties in Iraq top 4,000, veterans and active-duty soldiers in the conflict give voice to the moral toll the war has taken.

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Who's Got Game?

Mon, 2008-03-24 08:45
Robert Lipsyte | A new book advocates equality for men and women on the playing field. But is that still a field of dreams?

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Radio Nation

Fri, 2008-03-21 13:43
Laura Flanders | discusses the staggering costs of the war from economist Robert Pollin, peace activist Leslie Cagan and war resister Aimee Allison.

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Politics: The Gentlemen's Bailout

Thu, 2008-03-20 12:33
The Editors | The power of Wall Street money and ideas must give way to a new public agenda to restore the real economy.

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A Really New Deal

Thu, 2008-03-20 12:29
Nation Forum | Bill McKibben, Jesse Jackson, Eric Schlosser, Andy Stern, Anna Deavere Smith and others consider a New Deal for 2008.

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Hillary's NAFTA Lie

Thu, 2008-03-20 11:40
John Nichols | Despite her assertions that she opposed NAFTA from the beginning, newly released White House documents show Clinton was an ardent advocate.

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Books & the Arts: Extreme Inequality

Thu, 2008-03-20 11:37
Daniel Brook | A look at the gap between rich and poor via two books: David Cay Johnson's Free Lunch and Michael J. Thompson's The Politics of Inequality.

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Books & the Arts: Hard Times

Thu, 2008-03-20 11:35
Kim Phillips-Fein | Amity Schlaes's history of the Great Depression is nothing less than an attempt to reclaim the 1930s for the free market.

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