• A Fateful Crossroads for America

  Katrina vanden Heuvel

  Challenging neocon policies that have led to a new cold war, will Obama show the courage to chart a new course?

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  What Makes Denver Different: A DNC Preview

  VideoNation : Campaigns & Elections

  The Nation's Ari Melber explains why Obama's candidacy and this year's Democratic convention will likely be political game changers.

• The 2008 Student Loan Blues

  Nicholas von Hoffman : Higher Education

  Some 200,000 college students won't qualify for loans in September, and millions more will pay higher interest rates. Since Obama counts on the youth vote to be elected, can they count on him to help them out?

• US Misses Shot at Iranian Superstar

  Dave Zirin

  The NBA likes to promote its openness to embracing international basketball stars--except when they hail from Iran.

• The End of Bubba Dominance

  Chris Bowers : Presidential Election 2008

  No matter who wins in November, demographic trends indicate that the era of backlash politics is over.

• For a New Economics

  The Editors : Economic Policy

  The tepid platform Democrats will adopt in Denver isn't a new social contract, but it does go places Republicans never will. Let's hope Obama does better.

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  New Era for Pakistan--and Kashmir?

  Barbara Crossette : Pakistan

  The resignation of Pervez Musharraf and a looming election in India offer hope that with the right leadership, the sixty-year faceoff over Kashmir might finally be resolved.

• Tested, Tried, Untrue

  Patricia J. Williams : Barack Obama

  Critiques of Barack Obama's suitability for the office of the presidency have been bookended by astonishingly contradictory stereotypes.

• Wanted: New Voters

  Christopher Hayes : Presidential Election 2008

  The Obama campaign's voter-registration drive could be the real change America's been waiting for.

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  Ceasefire and Chaos in Georgia

  Margarita Akhvlediani : Russia

  Once geopolitical lines are redrawn, the question must be answered: who started this war?

• The Party Crashers

  Michael Gould-Wartofsky : Activism & Organizing

  Thousands of youth activists will hit the streets to protest the Democratic and Republican conventions, some promising to "Recreate '68." But can they create democracy from outside?

• The Defunding of the Peace Movement

  Tom Hayden : Peace Activism

  As things stand today, if millions are to be spent on an anti-Iraq, anti-McCain message, it will have to come through the Obama campaign or not at all.

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  Obama and the Sisters

  Melissa Harris-Lacewell : Presidential Election 2008

  His convention speech should draw from the wisdom of Barbara Jordan, Shirley Chisholm and other black women activists who were the prophets of American democracy.

• From Fannie Lou Hamer to Barack Obama

  John Nichols : History

  Democrats have come a long way from the first Denver convention a century ago.

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