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Feature
Why the Native American Vote Could Win the Senate for Democrats
In four close Western races, the tribal population could tip the balance.
David Sarasohn
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The Obama-Bashing Book Bonanza
A consolidated publishing industry, along with the right-wing media machine, has fostered the market for extremist hit jobs.
Michelle Goldberg
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Go for the Jugular
What a principled counterattack campaign against the GOP would look like.
Dorian T. Warren
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Movements Need Politicians—and Vice Versa
Where their interests overlap, progressive politics can thrive.
Frances Fox Piven and Lorraine C. Minnite
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We Need More than a New President
In a second Obama term, we must organize to win a new social contract for a new economy.
Saket Soni
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Defeat the Reactionary White Elite
While preventing a Republican triumph is imperative, we should have no illusions about Obama.
Bill Fletcher Jr.
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Obama’s Legacy Is Our Leverage
If he wins, he must use his platform and powers to tackle issues from global warming to nuclear arms control.
Tom Hayden
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A Politics of Love
In this election and after, we need to write a new story for our changing nation that places care and connection at the center.
Ai-jen Poo
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Re-elect Obama—but Reject His Austerity
In the contest that comes after November, Obama will be on the wrong team.
Robert L. Borosage
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Time to Rewire
A Romney presidency would rob progressive movements of the oxygen required to grow deeper and broader roots.
Ilyse Hogue
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Editorial
Re-Elect the President
Whatever disappointments progressives have with Obama’s first term, we have a profound interest in the popular rejection of the Romney/Ryan ticket.
The Editors
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Noted
Adam Hudson on living under drones, Peter Dreier on Barry Commoner, John Nichols on Bill Moyers’s new film on ALEC
Various Contributors
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The Corporate War on Labor
Disguised by its billionaire backers as campaign finance reform, California’s Proposition 32 would destroy the political power of unions.
John Nichols
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Remembering Eric Hobsbawm
Hobsbawm’s life and writings will long serve as an inspiration to those who believe that a knowledge of history is essential to working for a better world.
Eric Foner
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Column
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Shut Up About the Jews Already…
How right-wing Jewish organizatons misrepresent both the views and the influence of American Jews.
Eric Alterman
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What Race Has to Do With It
This election has posed a challenge of self-control for Republicans raised on a diet of welfare queens and Willie Horton.
Gary Younge
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Books & the Arts
Remembering Eric Hobsbawm
Hobsbawm’s life and writings will long serve as an inspiration to those who believe that a knowledge of history is essential to working for a better world.
Eric Foner
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The Obama-Bashing Book Bonanza
A consolidated publishing industry, along with the right-wing media machine, has fostered the market for extremist hit jobs.
Michelle Goldberg
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Do You Only Have a Brain? On Thomas Nagel
A philosopher’s broadside against Darwinism and materialism is mostly an instrument of mischief.
Brian Leiter and Michael Weisberg
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Breadwinner Conservatism: On Robert O. Self
How the American right’s obsession with male status legitimated the transition to a neoliberal ethos.
Michelle Goldberg
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Raw Judicial Power: On William Rehnquist
The Partisan is a weak account of the career and legal thinking of a conservative and obstreperous chief justice.
Michael O’Donnell
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Letters
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 3255
Don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto