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October 20, 2008 Issue
Victor Navasky on Paul Newman, Calvin Trillin on Sarah Palin, Robert Daniels on Russian politics…
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Editorial
Thinking of casting a symbolic vote for Nader or some other third-party progressive? Think again.
Tom Hayden
Seven years after the US invasion, Afghanistan is still chained to the fundamentalist warlords and the Taliban. Women and children suffer the most.
Malalai Joya
If only the federal government could be
mobilized to solve the nation's healthcare crisis as quickly as it did
for Wall Street.
RoseAnn DeMoro
There's only one explanation for the pundits who declared Sarah Palin finessed Thursday's debate: A nation of losers sorely needed a redemption narrative.
Mark Ames
Remember The Rules, that mean-girl guide to being the object of male desire? That's Sarah Palin. Not that it will do the GOP much good.
Linda Hirshman
He was funny, he was thoughtful, he was committed and, in the end, he was a friend, period.
Victor Navasky
As America's second Gilded Age fissions around us, we can sense the zeitgeist shift. Are we staring into the abyss of 1929 or heading for a new New Deal?
Steve Fraser
Nothing brings left and right together like a Big Government intervention on behalf of Big Money.
Chris Hayes
D.D. Guttenplan on British politics, Nancy Kranich on Banned Books Week
The Editors
Congress must take control of the failed financial system until a new president can legislate a more permanent and equitable solution.
William Greider
The Nation bids farewell to one of its greatest friends--actor and activist Paul Newman.
Edward Sorel
Column
McCain's not a perfect replica, but Oliver Stone's Bush bio-pic reminds us they're two spoiled screw-ups who divided and conquered the country for their high-rolling pals.
Robert Scheer
Polititians routinely manipulate Americans' fixation with sports. But Sarah Palin plays an extreme--and disingenuous--version of the game.
Dave Zirin
The Dow falls below 10,000. As deflation destroys wealth and unemployment rises, America braces for tough times ahead.
Nicholas von Hoffman
As the next Congress creates a new regulatory structure for our crippled financial system, job one is breaking Wall Street's grip on capital and credit.
Nicholas von Hoffman
That McCain and Palin actually have a shot at the White House gives one pause contemplating the future of this country.
Eric Alterman
Feature
This can be a transformative election. Will economic meltdown, race or regional loyalty be the trump card?
Chalmers Johnson
Are you worried about the election? Do you write haiku? People for the American Way and The Nation invite your entries the McPalin Haiku Hysteria competition.
Erica Landau
Rebel. Liar. Attack dog. Bigot. Stefan Forbes's Boogie Man assesses the enduring damage Lee Atwater did to our political process.
Antonino D’Ambrosio
As financial markets reel from the US financial crisis and tainted Chinese dairy products are sold around the world, we're learning hard lessons on the limits of globalization.
David E. Gumpert
With a surge of angry e-mail that sent Congressional servers into meltdown, taxpayers stormed their way into the bailout debate.
Ari Melber
China is booming, but slouches toward the moral authority needed to inspire a modern, open and prosperous state. Does Confucius hold the key?
Orville Schell
GOP loyalists have taken over the Justice Department and retooled the civil rights division as a political weapon.
Andrew Gumbel
He may talk tough about Russia, but John McCain’s political advisers have advanced Putin’s imperial ambitions.
Mark Ames and Ari Berman
Books & the Arts
Are you worried about the election? Do you write haiku? People for the American Way and The Nation invite your entries the McPalin Haiku Hysteria competition.
Erica Landau
Rebel. Liar. Attack dog. Bigot. Stefan Forbes's Boogie Man assesses the enduring damage Lee Atwater did to our political process.
Antonino D’Ambrosio
McCain's not a perfect replica, but Oliver Stone's Bush bio-pic reminds us they're two spoiled screw-ups who divided and conquered the country for their high-rolling pals.
Robert Scheer
With his new play Kicking a Dead Horse, Sam Shepard is still stranded in a prairie of tough-guy cliché.
Akiva Gottlieb
Cell biologist Kenneth Miller discusses the dangers of politicized science.
Christine Smallwood
As America's second Gilded Age fissions around us, we can sense the zeitgeist shift. Are we staring into the abyss of 1929 or heading for a new New Deal?
Steve Fraser
Five authors provide differing views of the post-glasnost era and of the failed promise of democratic reform in Russia.
Robert V. Daniels
Laurence Tribe's new book asks us to consider the "invisible" web of ideas that have grown around the text of the Constitution. But who's to say what it contains?
Daniel Lazare
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