The Supreme Court and the Election: What's at Stake
Herman Schwartz : The next president and Congress must reverse the conservative tide of the Bush judiciary.
The Editors on the bank bailout, Gary Younge on Obama in Virginia, Noah Isenberg on Walter Benjamin
Herman Schwartz : The next president and Congress must reverse the conservative tide of the Bush judiciary.
David C. Vladeck : Pro-business judges who now dominate the Supreme Court undermine consumers' right to sue when they are injured by unsafe products.
Harper Jean Tobin : It's increasingly difficult for older Americans to protect themselves from age discrimination, nursing home abuse and loss of pension benefits.
Robert M. Lawless : The Supreme Court has done little to protect a nation of debtors from predatory lending practices.
Eric Schnapper : The rights of workers get little attention from the court, and employers know they can violate those rights with impunity.
Jonathan Schell : On the campaign trail, new lies are being pumped into the political bloodstream.
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If nationalizing banks is suddenly on the table, what else might be placed there?
William Greider : As Bush and Paulson throw money at the problem, Obama is moving rapidly to adapt to the crisis that awaits the next president.
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John Nichols on Sarah Palin's "vindication," David Cole on phone sex and national security, Danielle Douglas on Haiti.
Richard Kim : The GOP's machinery of hate has taken on a life of its own.
JoAnn Wypijewski : Behind the scrim of boom times there was always debt and sex--and the intimate economy of panic and desire.
Chris Toensing : Three new books vividly portray the devastating impact of the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Eric Foner : Without the courage of the forgotten black legislators of the Reconstruction era, it would be impossible for a black man today to run for president.
Noah Isenberg
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Following the quirky, revolutionary life path of one of the most celebrated twentieth-century intellectuals.
Patricia J. Williams : The real scandal of the year is that Eliot Spitzer, brought low by his own bad behavior, had predatory lenders in his sights.
Eric Alterman : Politics ain't beanbag, but the thuggishness of McCain and Palin and their conservative media enablers have infected our political discourse.
Gary Younge
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So far in the once-red state of Virginia, things are going Obama's way.
The Landline : What if iconic Hollywood directors John Woo, Kevin Smith and Wes Anderson took a crack at creating a John McCain attack ad?
MSNBC : Chris Matthews confronts McCain spokeswoman Nancy Pfotenhauer about Sarah Palin's stubborn insistence that the VP is in 'charge of the Senate.'
Linda Hirshman : Suddenly, Obama's making a pretty good case for why Americans should once again care for one another.
Mark Ames : Deconstructing the New York Times fairy tale about how nasty Russia invaded innocent Georgia.
Dave Zirin : Merritt Paulson, son of Henry Paulson, asks the city of Portland to fund his new sports stadiums even though he can afford it.
Anna Greenspan : The tainted milk crisis could prod China to act responsibly.
Countdown : After three months of campaigning, Sarah Palin still seems to have no clue what a vice president's duties actually are.
Robert Scheer : Let's hope he listens to Paul Volker and Warren Buffet--and keeps at bay Rubin, Summers and others responsible for the current debacle.
Brave New Films : In recent weeks, the McCain campaign has been claiming ACORN knowingly participated in 'voter fraud.' In reality, this is a calculated attempt by the GOP to suppress the vote.
Demitrious Sinor : Will our next president have the courage to scrap No Child Left Behind?
Barbara Ehrenreich : Our operatives on Wall Street were doing a good job bringing down capitalism one hedge fund at a time. But then Goldman Sachs staged a counter-coup.
William Deresiewicz : Why the commentariat's response to hand-wringing about "the decline of reading" condescends to the large mass of nonspecialist readers.
The Daily Show : Jon Stewart rips Sarah Palin and the McCain campaign's suggestion that only certain parts of the country are 'pro-American.'
Countdown : Keith Olbermann criticizes the McCain campaign and other Republicans, like Michele Bachmann, for their use of divisive politics during the campaign.
Nation Podcast : Naomi Klein, William Greider, Frances Fox Piven and others explain the financial crisis in a recent emergency town hall meeting in New York City.
Slavenka Drakulic : Austria's most notorious right-wing politician died as spectacularly as he had lived--and in a Europe stunned by financial crisis, leaves a dangerous legacy.
Ross Tuttle : Military commissions officials are using punitive psychological evaluations as part of a strategy to discredit and silence a former colleague turned whistleblower.
Saturday Night Live : Amy Poehler brings the house down with a Sarah Palin-inspired hip hop ode to Alaska and the McCain campaign.
Talking Points Memo : Colin Powell slams right-wing attacks on Obama's character and argues in a favor a generational change in the White House.
MSNBC : When Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann called Barack Obama and his supporters 'anti-American,' The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel fought back.
Cora Currier
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In state after state, the number of new voters has swelled like never before. They're mostly under 30 and solidly backing Barack Obama.
The Daily Show : The final debate isn't about the animosity between the candidates, but about you, the people who remind them to keep a never-ending supply of Purell on them.
Countdown : Keith Olbermann lauds Late Night host David Letterman for challenging McCain on his attack ads in a way that only he can.
Saturday Night Live : McCain celebrates his 'best friend in the whole world', Joe the Plumber, who has a 'magical plunger' that will fix all our economic problems.
Rebecca McDonald Keesha Gaskins is making history as one of the few young black leaders at the League of Women Voters.
Studies show that the most effective way to get young people to vote is to simply ask them (to their face). And what's the one day each year that people actually expect strangers to knock on their doors?
Jamilah King The Youth Agenda is the first ever national issues agenda written by youth organizers from around the country. The platform issues a national call to action on education, jobs and healthcare.
Suemedha Sood Emily Kirsch explains how green jobs can open doors and lift communities out of poverty.
Christine Smallwood : A doctor defends scientific research against the potentially fatal misperceptions of the anti-vaccine movement.
Talking Points Memo : 'Joe the Plumber', the unlikely star of the final 2008 presidential debate, reveals some of his more extreme views on the issues.
Frank W. Lewis : From the March 13, 1948, issue.
Talking Points Memo : Obama and McCain exchange blows on abortion rights and a mother's health, the latter of which is too extreme for the Republican.
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