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Half-a-Loaf Stimulus

Good news in the stimulus package: low and middle income Americans receive cash to rev a slowing economy. Bad news: tax breaks for businesses won’t help much at all.

Nancy Cleeland

Antiwar Group Collapses

Tom Matzzie, leader of Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, has resigned his position and dissolved a major and well-funded coalition of anti-war groups.

Tom Hayden

Dahr Jamail: Beyond the Green Zone

An independent journalist talks about what’s really happening in Iraq, and why neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama have a plan for ending the catastrophe.

Jeremy Scahill

Get on the Good Foot

Cynthia Kang is backstage in this episode, but rest assured, the heat is still on.

Gary Phillips

Gimme Shelter

Immigrants facing deportation find shelter with the religious New Sanctuary Movement.

Sasha Abramsky

The Conscious Classroom

A new generation of educators, frustrated with ineffective reforms, turns to pedagogy focused on social justice.

Adam Doster

Homeless in New Orleans

The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has turned New Orleans into a tragic Tale of Two Cities.

Lizzy Ratner

Are We There Yet?: A Liberal Votes in California

Who knew provisional voting could be a teaching moment?

Annabelle Gurwitch

The Shooting of Jose Ramos Horta

If Timor-Leste’s President doesn’t survive the assassination attempt, his soul will get a good laugh at outlasting Suharto, who killed a third of his people.

Allan Nairn

Guatemalans Seek Redress in Spanish Court

As Americans consider who to choose as their next President, Guatemalan Mayans seek justice for Reagan-era atrocities.

Allan Nairn

Undoing the Bush Legacy

No matter who becomes the next President, the clammy fingers of Bush and Cheney will be wrapped around vital national policies. It’s up to Congress to break their grip.

Aziz Huq

Florida and Michigan: Vote Again

To avoid convention disaster, the DNC should reset caucuses and primaries in Florida and Michigan.

Tom Hayden

From Guernica to Iraq

There’s an escalating air war in Iraq; why don’t American media consider it serious news?

Tom Engelhardt

McCain vs. GOP Taliban

McCain’s march toward the Republican nomination is the year’s most improbable journey.

John Nichols

Noted.

Electoral math, post Super Tuesday; Richard Honaker’s judicial activism; mobilizing for Obama.

The Editors

California Dreaming

The Golden State’s lesson for Clinton and Obama is that they each need to craft a more daring politics of transcendence.

Lakshmi Chaudhry

Obama’s Promise

He offers the best chance to redefine the center of American politics and forge a new progressive majority.

The Editors

Vice President Rice?

If John McCain picks Condoleezza Rice as his running mate, Democrats should be afraid. Very afraid.

Nicholas von Hoffman

Big Oil’s Banner Year

They’re reaping the profits, we’re paying the price.

Robert Scheer

Energy Lessons from South Africa

South Africa’s growth rate is outstripping its ability to generate electricity. There’s a message here for us.

Nicholas von Hoffman

‘Love Me, I’m a Liberal’

Thanks to a cowed media, scaremongering is the only remaining area of conservative competence.

Eric Alterman

Metamorphosis

Robert Grossman

Movin’ On Up

Now that we’ve crested the mountaintop, let’s have some politically incorrect dreams.

Patricia J. Williams

Mitt Romney, the Power-Point Moneybag, Will Stay in the Race

A hidden weapon in our fight against recession.

Calvin Trillin

An Ayler in My House

A glossy and ragged musical declaration of love.

Nick Stillman

Cool Devastation

American movie-goers finally get to see Cristian Mungiu’s stunning 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.

Stuart Klawans

Green Days

The biography of Joschka Fischer tells the story of postwar Germany.

Anson Rabinbach

Foes

J.M. Coetzee, now out with a new novel and a collection of essays, reminds us what a master he is at turning life into narrative.

William Deresiewicz

Letters

‘Ebony and Ivory’?

Laguna Woods, Calif.

Stuart Klawans, Our Readers and Peter Gizzi