Desperately Seeking Stimulus

An economy addicted to growth, bubbles, downsizing and lending sprees--has become disconnected from the real economy of ordinary human needs.

Barbara Ehrenreich

CSI: Iraq

Despite the cosmetic acts of President Bush, his undertakers and enablers, America's Iraq is still a corpse.

Tom Engelhardt

Racial Politics, Clinton Style

No matter who injected the issue of race and gender into the Democratic presidential campaign, it's not going away.

Ari Berman

Long Roe to Hoe

Improving the sorry state of US reproductive health policy requires serious shifts within the women's movement and the abortion rights movement.

Frances Kissling and Kate Michelman

Noted.

Victor Navasky on failed punditry, Frida Berrigan on Bush's Israeli pilgrimage, Esther Kaplan on activist nurses.

The Editors

Reconstruction Lessons

Advocates of African-Americans and women achieve more by working together than by fighting.

Eric Foner

Twin Disasters

When will the candidates cease their petty sniping and address the real issues: the Iraq War and the faltering economy?

The Editors

Bill and Hill’s Dangerous Game

The Clintons cannot compete with the enthusiasm Obama sets off so they are trying to destroy it. They just may succeed--but at an awful price.

Nicholas von Hoffman

Playing Politics with Bankers

Now that Dennis Kucinich is out of the presidential debates, don't expect Clinton or Obama to hold unregulated bankers accountable for the global economic meltdown.

Robert Scheer

Our Eroding Dollar

No matter how much it adds to inflation, the Fed, prodded by Wall Street, is poised to again lower interest rates--punching an even bigger hole in our purchasing power.

Nicholas von Hoffman

The Weepy Witch & the Secret Muslim

If the campaign becomes a competition between race and gender, the winner will be whichever white man the GOP nominates.

Katha Pollitt

Moody’s: The Terrorist at Ground Zero

Lusting after pools of Social Security and Medicare money, the Wall Street giant aims to dictate national policy through the barrel of a financial gun.

Alexander Cockburn

Change…

Frances Jetter

Two Primary-Season Versions of ‘Hickory Dickory Dock’

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Readers respond to Gary Younge on The Obama Effect, exchange views with Henry Siegman on Israel and comment about the subprime mortgage meltdown.

Our Readers and Henry Siegman