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April 7, 2008 Issue
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Editorial
Progressives who support Barack Obama must use the primary race help shape
his policies on Iraq.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
The future has arrived: progressives can make a difference to ensure Barack Obama is our next President.
Tom Hayden and Barbara Ehrenreich and Bill Fletcher Jr. and Danny Glover
Passover and Earth Day fall in the same week in April this year. Here's how environmental activists and people of faith can respond to this holy season of liberation.
Arthur Waskow
Dick Cheney's Mideast tour suggests another catastrophic military adventure in the Persian Gulf is still in the cards.
Michael T. Klare
Congress finds a spine on wiretapping; a young writer defends the New Deal.
The Editors
In compelling public testimony, US soldiers and Iraqi civilians bear witness to the horrors of combat.
Laila Al-Arian
The power of Wall Street money and ideas must give way to a new public agenda to restore the real economy.
The Editors
Column
Why the fuss over Obama's pastor when Bible-based damnations for bad behavior is made in both black and white churches?
Robert Scheer
Wouldn't a real feminist also oppose racism?
Gary Younge
A principled academic gets ground up in the media hypocrisy machine.
Eric Alterman
Feature
With the nation's economy in a slump, it's time for a twenty-first-century New Deal.
Rep. Maurice Hinchey
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
Signs of trouble no matter who is elected President.
Trudy Lieberman
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
How refreshing it would be if a presidential candidate reminded us of the experience of the New Deal.
Howard Zinn
Today's progressive message-makers can learn a lot from Franklin Roosevelt's homey "fireside chats."
Stephen Duncombe
New Deal progressives believed the economy should exist to serve society, not the other way around.
Sherle R. Schwenninger
The US public is wonderfully diverse, but the arts are not equally accessible to all.
Anna Deavere Smith
Where the New Deal once served to rebalance the power between labor and capital, we are now perilously out of balance.
Andy Stern
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
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.
For Roosevelt, the New Deal was a way of advancing freedom, which depended on economic as much as political rights.
Frances Moore Lappé
Today's relentless arguments against a higher minimum wage suggest that Roosevelt's battle is not yet won.
Eric Schlosser
The New Deal spirit of "persistent experimentation" yielded impressive results for the country. American leaders can recapture that spirit.
Andrea Batista Schlesinger
As we struggle for media democracy, let's take encouragement from the early actions of the FCC.
Michael J. Copps
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
What was it about the New Deal and Roosevelt that make the man and the era relevant today?
Richard Parker
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
An account of the most recent installment in the nation's sick love affair with literary exhibitionists.
Chris Lehmann
Celebrating Alice Notley, winner of the 2007 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.
Marie Ponsot
Justice may appear in the
guise of a hard, devious mother
I want shoes for my baby
son my werewolf son
Alice Notley
in the antediluvian island
in the primordial swamp
Hardwood was already my friend
Alice Notley
Thank Gerard
Cascade: rain torrential rain
waterfalls down our stone facade.
Marie Ponsot
A new book advocates equality for men and women on the playing field. But is that still a field of dreams?
Robert Lipsyte
Mapping the difficulty, danger and beauty in the art of Nicholas Poussin.
Arthur C. Danto
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
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
Woody Holton's history of America's origins celebrates the contributions of the common people.
Robin Einhorn
How refreshing it would be if a presidential candidate reminded us of the experience of the New Deal.
Howard Zinn
Today's progressive message-makers can learn a lot from Franklin Roosevelt's homey "fireside chats."
Stephen Duncombe
New Deal progressives believed the economy should exist to serve society, not the other way around.
Sherle R. Schwenninger
The US public is wonderfully diverse, but the arts are not equally accessible to all.
Anna Deavere Smith
Where the New Deal once served to rebalance the power between labor and capital, we are now perilously out of balance.
Andy Stern
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
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.
For Roosevelt, the New Deal was a way of advancing freedom, which depended on economic as much as political rights.
Frances Moore Lappé
Today's relentless arguments against a higher minimum wage suggest that Roosevelt's battle is not yet won.
Eric Schlosser
The New Deal spirit of "persistent experimentation" yielded impressive results for the country. American leaders can recapture that spirit.
Andrea Batista Schlesinger
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
What was it about the New Deal and Roosevelt that make the man and the era relevant today?
Richard Parker
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
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