• Imagining a New New Deal

  U.S. Economy

  Radio Nation : Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself weigh in on the troubled economy.

• State Banks Could Solve Financial Crisis

  Banks & Banking

  Nicholas von Hoffman: Forget big bailouts. The fed should finance non-profit state banks like the Bank of North Dakota--no profit means no reason for bankers to misbehave--to get real money to real people in the real economy.

• Return of the Wall Street Hustlers

  U.S. Economy

  Robert Scheer: Obama, who promised change, has put the same old Wall Street hustlers on his economic team. Maybe he could send us an e-mail to explain.

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• From Birmingham to Voting for Barack

  Presidential Election 2008

  American News Project : Many citizens of Birmingham believe a new movement is taking place as a result of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.

• No Debate: Hempstead Is Struggling

  Presidential Election 2008

  American News Project : As the media descends on Hempstead, NY, for the last presidential debate, regular citizens express frustration with crises at home and abroad.

• 'Obama Waffles' Leave Bad Taste

  Presidential Election 2008

  American News Project : At the Family Research Council's Value Voters summit in Washington DC, vendors hawk a racist product meant to inspire Anti-Obama fervor.