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The Kingston Trio and the Red Scare

The death of Nick Reynolds, one of the Kingston Trio, last week at 75, provoked fond memories of one era and painful reminders of another.

Peter Dreier and Jim Vrabel

Murmurs of the Heart

The malefactors and the manipulators of machination start to fess up.

Gary Phillips

My Great Depression

Far more than all the other bad things that have happened during the Bush years, our current financial crisis makes me feel that the American empire is in ruin.

Tom Engelhardt

McCain and the Meltdown

Robert Sherrill’s pathbreaking 1990 exposé of the savings and loan scandal sheds light on John McCain’s deregulatory politics–and our current financial crisis.

The Nation

Agnostic, Atheist Votes Matter in November

Pursuing religious voters, Republicans and Democrats overlook the importance of the constituency of nonbelievers.

Ronald Aronson

Democrats Chase Evangelical Votes

Led by Obama, Democrats are making a bid for evangelical voters. Lost cause or holy grail?

Sarah Posner

Camp Bucca: Iraq’s Guantánamo Bay

What will the United States do with 20,000 Iraqis in legal limbo?

David Enders

Can Obama Reform Healthcare?

He calls for universal coverage–but that’s hard to get if insurance companies run the show.

Trudy Lieberman

Wrong Prescription: McCain’s Healthcare Plan

McCain would encourage employers to cut coverage. No joke: that’s his plan.

J. Lester Feder

Joe Garcia Gaining Among Florida Republicans

In south Florida, Joe Garcia is taking on the GOP and the Cuban exile establishment.

Ethan Porter

Democrats Could Win Key Senate Races

Democratic candidates are gaining in key Senate races and could tip the balance in the next Congress.

John Nichols

Religion Threatens ’08 Presidential Race

We need a new national dialogue to untangle the triumphalist Christian story line that has wrapped itself around our political discourse.

Rev. Howard Moody

Paulson’s Plan B

The Treasury Secretary’s decision to buy equity stakes in banks still fails to address the fundamental flaws in the system.

Nomi Prins

Sarah Palin Is Out of Her League

Sarah Palin’s out of her league and a dangerous choice for vice president. Don’t Republican leaders have a moral obligation to speak out?

Judith Viorst

Why I’d Be a Better VP than Sarah Palin

I’ve got the ethics, the family values, a passport and, like the Alaska governor, am perfectly aligned with God’s will.

Rosanne Cash

Obama’s Web-Savvy Voter Plan

The Obama campaign’s below-the-radar use of the web to register new voters could change the game for Democrats and Republicans.

Ari Melber

Why Don’t the Media Get the Bailout?

There’s still plenty of time for the media to get the bailout story right: just start asking, “Who benefits?”

David Cay Johnston

Noted.

Philip Weiss on how grassroots activists on Capitol Hill trumped AIPAC to block a bad measure on Iran.

The Editors

Spend the Bailout Money on the Middle Class

Take a tip from the New Deal: invest that $700 billion in jobs and mortgage aid for those who need it most.

Howard Zinn

Invest in the Real Economy

Government can soften the recession’s impact by spending money–lots of it–to stimulate the real economy.

The Editors

Paulson’s Bailout Beast

Henry Paulson’s latest plan takes us further down to road to state capitalism, whose only principle is to protect the bankers who created the problem.

Nicholas von Hoffman

Hoover, 2008: McCain’s Bogus Reform

For years, John McCain backed legislation that decriminalized Wall Street’s reckless conduct. No amount of New Deal posturing can hide that record.

Robert Scheer

Palin Drops the Puck

The best-known hockey mom in the country gets booed at a game in Philadelphia’s Wachovia Center. Failing candidate, failed bank, failed stunt: you can’t make this stuff up.

Dave Zirin and Daniel Denvir

The Meltdown’s Silver Lining

When the markets calm down, liquidity returns and we are sunk in the inevitable recession, America can remake itself into a saner, more humane society.

Nicholas von Hoffman

Follow-ups for Sarah Palin

Don’t let reproductive rights get lost in the run-up to Election Day.

Katha Pollitt

Bailout Signals the Election Is Over

By approving the bailout, Congress sealed our political fate more firmly than any presidential election.

Alexander Cockburn

Someone Watching Sarah Palin’s Campaign Tactics Imagines How She Might Challenge a Referee’s Call in a Sixth-Grade Hockey Game

Push back on the pushy hockey mom.

Calvin Trillin

The Kingston Trio and the Red Scare

The death of Nick Reynolds, one of the Kingston Trio, last week at 75, provoked fond memories of one era and painful reminders of another.

Peter Dreier and Jim Vrabel

Civic Virtues: Gore Vidal’s Selected Essays

A new collection of Gore Vidal’s essays showcases five decades of literary and political criticism, with his mocking, disenchanted patriotism in all its eloquence.

George Scialabba

Lords of Misrule: Thomas Frank Takes on the GOP

On the campaign trail, they’re culture warriors; once in office, conservatives just follow the money.

Jefferson Decker

Credenzas of Fragmentation: Lobo Antunes’s Decadent Despair

In António Lobo Antunes’s new novel, a lost boy despairs of finding a real family in the wasteland of his past.

Natasha Wimmer

Panoramas: ’24 City,’ ‘Ashes of Time Redux,’ ‘Happy-Go-Lucky

24 City and Ashes of Time Redux, two stars of the New York Film Festival; plus Happy-Go-Lucky and Ballast reviewed.

Stuart Klawans

Prison Poem: “You stripped away the sea… #11”

Osip Mandelstam

Letters

Coming of Age in Papua New Guinea

Arlington, Va.

D.D. Guttenplan, Mark Dowie and Our Readers

Crossword Classic #21

From the March 6, 1948, issue.

Frank W. Lewis

Puzzle No. 3141

ACROSS

Frank W. Lewis