Working Together for a Green New Deal
Van Jones : Wise, compassionate forces from civil society must join green business to change our politics.
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Robert Pollin on the economy, William Greider on Ralph Nader, Emily Biuso on ocean fishing
Articles
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Establishment Disorder
William Greider : Obama must decide between small-bore reforms and a far more ambitious agenda to remake the economy.
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Father d'Escoto's United Nations
Barbara Crossette : The General Assembly's new president is a champion for the world's most dispossessed.
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The Road to Socialism?
Philip Green : Contrary to what you may have heard from John McCain, there's a long way to go.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Why We Vote
: To change the country, to make our voices heard and, most of all, to declare that we are all in this together.
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The Marathon Man
William Greider : Ralph Nader is a man of political substance trapped in an era of easy lies.
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We're All Minskyites Now
Robert Pollin : Lessons from a free-market critic on the contradictions of economic crisis.
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Noted.
: John Nichols on problematic pardons, Sarah H. Arnold on debate protesters.
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Wanted: A Climate Bailout
Mark Hertsgaard : The United States and the world need to launch a climate rescue plan that's at least as ambitious as the Wall Street bailout.
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Vermont v. Bush
John Nichols : Charlotte Dennett is running for Vermont attorney general on a platform that includes not letting George W. Bush get away with murder.
Reviews
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The Horror of Dirt
Elaine Blair : Upstairs and downstairs with Virginia, Vanessa and the Bloomsbury set.
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poetry
Lullaby
Ange Mlinko : In language stark and plain as hymns, Susan Stewart explores our insatiable desire to find meaning in remembrance.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
Sarah Palin's Bubble Deflates Just as Her Clothing Bills Arrive
Calvin Trillin : All dressed up with no place to go.
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
A Liberal Supermajority (Finally) Finds Its Voice
Eric Alterman : All evidence to the contrary, mainstream media continue to frame election issues with discredited right-wing assumptions.
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LOOKOUT
The Bailout: Bush's Final Pillage
Naomi Klein : Brace yourself for a final, frantic stripping of public wealth as the Bush regime goes out the door.
Crossword
Web
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Stephen Colbert Reflects on 'Change'
The Colbert Report : Colbert laments that many 'hard-working scaremongers' may lose their job now that Obama has won the presidency.
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Election Night at The Nation
Brett Story & VideoNation : A look inside The Nation's election night party and a glimpse at Obama victory celebrations in Brooklyn.
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Obama's Dream Team
Katrina vanden Heuvel : A fantasy lineup of progressive advisors to help the next president end war, repair alliances and rebuild the economy.
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President-Elect Obama Addresses Nation
YouTube : Barack Obama delivers his victory speech after being elected the forty-fourth president of the United States.
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Jon Stewart & Friends' Post-Election Fears
The Daily Show : Now that the election is over and Barack Obama has been elected, what will we have to make fun of?
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Nairobi: Euphoria and Questions
Karen Rothmyer : A nation riven by differences marvels at his message of civility and inclusion. Yet there is some worry about an Obama administration's policies on Africa.
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Paris: 'America is Back'
Jordan Stancil : People here are looking in wonderment at the culture that produced Obama and at the people who put him in the White House. In short, they're looking at us.
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It's A New Era
Biko Baker For the first time, working-class youth and youth of color truly believe that they can change their country by electing a politician.
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Obama's Victory: Just the Beginning
Jamilah King Obama's message of unity and bipartisanship inspired millions of skeptics across party lines, but this is just the first step toward building democracy.
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London: The Nightmare is Over
D.D. Guttenplan & Maria Margaronis : When the votes were finally counted, Europe's wish to usher George W. Bush into the dustbin of history made for widespread jubilation.
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Rahm Emanuel: Face of Change?
John Nichols : Clinton's NAFTA-backing insider is in the running for Obama chief of staff.
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TruthDig
Morning Again in America
Robert Scheer : Goodbye, Pax Americana--and all the neoconservative economic and political ideologies that have dominated our public life.
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UN: Hope that America Rejoins the World
Barbara Crossette : Quiet relief, an undercurrent of caution and hope for a new approach to human rights, the environment and the problems of the poor.
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Election Protection is Working
Andrew Gumbel : It's clear that efforts to protect voters rights are working this time--in Virginia, Florida and Ohio.
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This Proud Moment
William Greider : Against all odds, Obama persuaded a majority of Americans to believe in their own better natures. By electing him, the people helped make it true.
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YouTubing the Election
Ari Melber : In America's first Web-driven election, campaign videos made by ordinary people--not campaigns or the news media--grabbed most of the attention
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The Idiocrats
Alexander Provan : Why do Internet boosters continue to confuse social networking with art?
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The People's Art Comes Out For Obama
Lucas Mann : This election has seen an outpouring of political participation on walls, abandoned buildings, scaffolding and subway trains nationwide.
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Virginia: The New Florida?
Andrew Gumbel : As Virginians vote in record numbers, some key Obama strongholds were reported close to a standstill.
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From Birmingham to Voting for Barack
American News Project : Many citizens of Birmingham believe a new movement is taking place as a result of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.
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I Now Denounce You Chuck & Larry
The Daily Show : Jon Stewart rips Proposition 8, an initiative that would rewrite the constitution to eliminate the rights of same-sex couples to marry in California.
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This Election's In Your Hands
Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman : The only one way Tuesday's vote will be protected is if citizens show up at the polls with cameras, note pads, cell phones and lawyers.
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Democrats Abroad Cast Their Votes
Christopher Lisotta : Energized by Obama's candidacy, expatriate Americans are voting in record numbers this year.
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The New Poll Tax: Long Lines
MSNBC : Rachel Maddow thinks that astronomically long waiting lines at voting sites are another form of Jim Crow era voter suppression.
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Peaceful Revolution in Maldives
Barbara Crossette : An island nation long gripped by authoritarianism votes for democracy--and wins.
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Foreclosed: The George W. Bush Story
Tom Engelhardt : The property is worth a lot less than when he took ownership in 2000, and the world is far more dangerous place. Now it's up to the rest of us to clean up the mess.
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Ben Affleck Spoofs Olbermann
Saturday Night Live : What if Keith Olbermann delivered a scathing special comment in defense of his fluffy white cat?
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Obsessed With Election 2008
The Today Show : The Nation's Ari Melber discusses 'Election Obsession' and the internet's role in the public's high-level of participation.
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Our Predictions
Radio Nation : Chris Hayes, Laura Flanders, Leslie Savan, John Nichols, Andrew Gumbel and Ari Berman preview Election 2008.
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Sarah Palin Goes Rogue on McCain
Saturday Night Live : Tina Fey pokes fun at Sarah Palin's post-election ambitions, while McCain himself shows he still has a sense of humor.
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Studs Terkel: Vigilant Optimist
Bruce Shapiro : Studs Terkel always stood for the radical idea of the long memory. Telling the stories of our times, he remained to the end a vigilant optimist about civil rights and social progress.
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Studs Terkel: The Power of His Prose
Dennis Kucinich : He was our Boswell, our Whitman, our Sandburg. He could get people to open up and share their innermost thoughts and dreams.
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Women's Choice at Risk on Election Day
Reeve Hamilton : Attorney Sarah Weddington discusses the impact this election could have on reproductive rights.
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Political Haiku Winners
Erica Landau : From the thousands of politicized poets who submitted election-themed verse to People for the American Way's haiku contest, here are the winners.
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When Barack Met Rachel
MSNBC : Barack Obama tells Rachel Maddow why he hasn't attacked the Republican party more and how he intends to govern a working majority.
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End the 'Voter Fraud' Debate
Joel Barkin & Christian Smith-Socaris : Fight the conservative bogeyman of voter fraud by supporting a system of universal voter registration.
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What Does It Mean to Go Green?
Rock the Vote : This video gives voice to the thousands of people who make up a grass roots movement to create green jobs in the US.
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Slouching Towards Bankruptcy
Marissa Colón-Margolies : GM is banking on a merger that may threaten the company and its workers' survival.
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The Promise of the Green Jobs
KJ Meyer The nation's emerging green economy helped Alvarro Jasso move from the confines of a jail to a well-paid job fixing windmills.
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Will the Youth Vote Swing This Election?
Karlo Barrios Marcelo From Colorado to Virginia--a state-by-state look at the youth polls in the nation's battleground states.
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Free Association: Low Power to the People!
Larisa Mann Fighting media consolidation one radio station at a time.
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Invest in Innovation
James S. Henry & Jim Manzi : The US economy rewarded the finance industry at the expense of our most creative problem-solvers. We need an innovation revival to grow our way back to health.
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Stephen Colbert Endorses Obama
The Colbert Report : Colbert says he has the courage to cross party lines and to join a ticket that's got a pretty good shot of winning.
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Crossword Classic #24
Frank W. Lewis : From the March 27, 1948, issue.
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Web Puts Dog-Whistle Politics on a Leash
Ari Melber : Self-appointed Internet cops are forcing accountability for the dirtiest tricks in politics.
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Back Talk: Kelly Link
Christine Smallwood : The novelist and publisher discusses zombies, teen romance and her reaction to being labeled a "New Weird" writer.
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