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A Bold New Democratic Party

With the nation's economy in a slump, it's time for a twenty-first-century New Deal.

Rep. Maurice Hinchey

How Green Is Your Collar?

Labor leaders and environmentalists meet to explore how to make green jobs good jobs for American workers.

Jeremy Brecher and Tim Costello and Brendan Smith

Cautionary Healthcare Tales From California and Massachusetts

Signs of trouble no matter who is elected President.

Trudy Lieberman

Things That Go Bump in the Night

This week's episode of Citizen Kang: Congresswoman Kang has some lascivious ideas about a certain cop, her shot-at chief of staff returns to town and all manner of deviltry ...

Gary Phillips

Beyond the New Deal

How refreshing it would be if a presidential candidate reminded us of the experience of the New Deal.

Howard Zinn

FDR’s Democratic Propaganda

Today's progressive message-makers can learn a lot from Franklin Roosevelt's homey "fireside chats."

Stephen Duncombe

Democratizing Capital

New Deal progressives believed the economy should exist to serve society, not the other way around.

Sherle R. Schwenninger

Potent Publics

The US public is wonderfully diverse, but the arts are not equally accessible to all.

Anna Deavere Smith

Labor’s New Deal

Where the New Deal once served to rebalance the power between labor and capital, we are now perilously out of balance.

Andy Stern

For the ‘FDR’

The Bush Administration's solutions for the subprime mortgage crisis are too little, too late. Americans need a New Deal-style agency to manage domestic reconstruction.

Rev. Jesse L. Jackson

Race and the New Deal Coalition

Most New Deal programs were anything but race- and gender-neutral in their impact. They were both racially discrminatory and a boon to many black Americans.

Adolph Reed Jr.

The Only Fitting Tribute

For Roosevelt, the New Deal was a way of advancing freedom, which depended on economic as much as political rights.

Frances Moore Lappé

The Bare Minimum

Today's relentless arguments against a higher minimum wage suggest that Roosevelt's battle is not yet won.

Eric Schlosser

A Chaos of Experimentation

The New Deal spirit of "persistent experimentation" yielded impressive results for the country. American leaders can recapture that spirit.

Andrea Batista Schlesinger

Not Your Father’s FCC

As we struggle for media democracy, let's take encouragement from the early actions of the FCC.

Michael J. Copps

A Green Corps

The New Deal brought with it programs that served not only the good of the people and the economy but also the environment. We need that now more than ever.

Bill McKibben

Why the New Deal Matters

What was it about the New Deal and Roosevelt that make the man and the era relevant today?

Richard Parker

Toward a New New Deal (Forum)

To commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the New Deal, The Nation invited a panel of activists, writers, scholars and artists to reflect on its lasting lessons.

The Editors

Books & the Arts

Victim ‘Hood

An account of the most recent installment in the nation's sick love affair with literary exhibitionists.

Chris Lehmann

Her Field Is Her Consciousness

Celebrating Alice Notley, winner of the 2007 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

Marie Ponsot

from Songs and Stories of the Ghouls

Justice may appear in the
guise of a hard, devious mother
I want shoes for my baby
son my werewolf son

Alice Notley

from “The Islanders Remember That There Are No Women and No Men”

in the antediluvian island
in the primordial swamp
Hardwood was already my friend

Alice Notley

Poem

Thank Gerard
Cascade: rain torrential rain
waterfalls down our stone facade.

Marie Ponsot

Who’s Got Game?

A new book advocates equality for men and women on the playing field. But is that still a field of dreams?

Robert Lipsyte

Just Looking

Mapping the difficulty, danger and beauty in the art of Nicholas Poussin.

Arthur C. Danto

Extreme Inequality

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.

Daniel Brook

Hard Times

Amity Schlaes's history of the Great Depression is nothing less than an attempt to reclaim the 1930s for the free market.

Kim Phillips-Fein

Ordinary People

Woody Holton's history of America's origins celebrates the contributions of the common people.

Robin Einhorn

Beyond the New Deal

How refreshing it would be if a presidential candidate reminded us of the experience of the New Deal.

Howard Zinn

FDR’s Democratic Propaganda

Today's progressive message-makers can learn a lot from Franklin Roosevelt's homey "fireside chats."

Stephen Duncombe

Democratizing Capital

New Deal progressives believed the economy should exist to serve society, not the other way around.

Sherle R. Schwenninger

Potent Publics

The US public is wonderfully diverse, but the arts are not equally accessible to all.

Anna Deavere Smith

Labor’s New Deal

Where the New Deal once served to rebalance the power between labor and capital, we are now perilously out of balance.

Andy Stern

For the ‘FDR’

The Bush Administration's solutions for the subprime mortgage crisis are too little, too late. Americans need a New Deal-style agency to manage domestic reconstruction.

Rev. Jesse L. Jackson

Race and the New Deal Coalition

Most New Deal programs were anything but race- and gender-neutral in their impact. They were both racially discrminatory and a boon to many black Americans.

Adolph Reed Jr.

The Only Fitting Tribute

For Roosevelt, the New Deal was a way of advancing freedom, which depended on economic as much as political rights.

Frances Moore Lappé

The Bare Minimum

Today's relentless arguments against a higher minimum wage suggest that Roosevelt's battle is not yet won.

Eric Schlosser

A Chaos of Experimentation

The New Deal spirit of "persistent experimentation" yielded impressive results for the country. American leaders can recapture that spirit.

Andrea Batista Schlesinger

A Green Corps

The New Deal brought with it programs that served not only the good of the people and the economy but also the environment. We need that now more than ever.

Bill McKibben

Why the New Deal Matters

What was it about the New Deal and Roosevelt that make the man and the era relevant today?

Richard Parker

Toward a New New Deal (Forum)

To commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the New Deal, The Nation invited a panel of activists, writers, scholars and artists to reflect on its lasting lessons.

The Editors