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November 17, 2008 Issue

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Editorial

Obama’s Dream Team

A fantasy lineup of progressive advisors to help the next president end war, repair alliances and rebuild the economy.

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Nairobi: Euphoria and Questions

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.

Karen Rothmyer

Paris: ‘America is Back’

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.

Jordan Stancil

London: A Sense that the Nightmare is Over

When the votes were finally counted, Europe's wish to usher George W. Bush into the dustbin of history made for widespread jubilation.

Maria Margaronis and D.D. Guttenplan

Rahm Emanuel: Face of Change?

Clinton's NAFTA-backing insider is in the running for Obama chief of staff.

John Nichols

UN: Hope that America Rejoins the World

Quiet relief, an undercurrent of caution and hope for a new approach to human rights, the environment and the problems of the poor.

Barbara Crossette

President Obama: This Proud Moment

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.

William Greider

Studs Terkel: Vigilant Optimist

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 progre...

Bruce Shapiro

Studs Terkel: The Power of His Prose

He was our Boswell, our Whitman, our Sandburg. He could get people to open up and share their innermost thoughts and dreams.

Dennis Kucinich

End the ‘Voter Fraud’ Debate

Fight the conservative bogeyman of voter fraud by supporting a system of universal voter registration.

Joel Barkin and Christian Smith-Socaris

Vermont v. Bush

Charlotte Dennett is running for Vermont attorney general on a platform that includes not letting George W. Bush get away with murder.

John Nichols

Wanted: A Climate Bailout

The United States and the world need to launch a climate rescue plan that's at least as ambitious as the Wall Street bailout.

Mark Hertsgaard

Noted.

John Nichols on problematic pardons, Sarah H. Arnold on debate protesters.

The Editors

We’re All Minskyites Now

Lessons from a free-market critic on the contradictions of economic crisis.

Robert Pollin

The Marathon Man

Ralph Nader is a man of political substance trapped in an era of easy lies.

William Greider

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.

The Editors

Column

Morning Again in America

Goodbye, Pax Americana--and all the neoconservative economic and political ideologies that have dominated our public life.

Robert Scheer

The Bailout: Bush’s Final Pillage

Brace yourself for a final, frantic stripping of public wealth as the Bush regime goes out the door.

Naomi Klein

A Liberal Supermajority (Finally) Finds Its Voice

All evidence to the contrary, mainstream media continue to frame election issues with discredited right-wing assumptions.

Eric Alterman

Sarah Palin’s Bubble Deflates Just as Her Clothing Bills Arrive

Calvin Trillin

Letters

China's Confucian Revival
Dent, Minn.

Our Readers and Daniel Lazare and Orville Schell

Feature

Election Protection is Working

It's clear that efforts to protect voters rights are working this time--in Virginia, Florida and Ohio.

Andrew Gumbel

YouTubing the Election

In America's first Web-driven election, campaign videos made by ordinary people--not campaigns or the news media--grabbed most of the attention

Ari Melber

The People’s Art Comes Out For Obama

This election has seen an outpouring of political participation on walls, abandoned buildings, scaffolding and subway trains nationwide.

Lucas Mann

Virginia: The New Florida?

More than two dozen polling places are reported close to a standstill as record numbers of voters cast ballots in this crucial swing state.

Andrew Gumbel

This Election’s In Your Hands

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.

Harvey Wasserman and Bob Fitrakis

Democrats Abroad Cast Their Votes

Energized by Obama's candidacy, expatriate Americans are voting in record numbers this year.

Christopher Lisotta

Peaceful Revolution in Maldives

An island nation long gripped by authoritarianism votes for democracy--and wins.

Barbara Crossette

Foreclosed: The George W. Bush Story

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.

Tom Engelhardt

Women’s Choice at Risk on Election Day

Attorney Sarah Weddington discusses the impact this election could have on reproductive rights.

Reeve Hamilton

Political Haiku Winners

From the thousands of politicized poets who submitted election-themed verse to People for the American Way's haiku contest, here are the winners.

Erica Landau

Slouching Towards Bankruptcy

GM is banking on a merger that may threaten the company and its workers' survival.

The Nation

Invest in Innovation

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.

James S. Henry and Jim Manzi