A My Lai a Month
Nick Turse : In Operation Speedy Express, new evidence of civilian slaughter and cover-up in Vietnam.
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The Editors on Obama's first 100 days, Patricia J. Williams on race, André Schiffrin on Studs Terkel.
Articles
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Obama Needs a Protest Movement
Frances Fox Piven : A grassroots push for reform can make Obama a great president.
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A New, Blue Dixie
Bob Moser : Obama's "Southern strategy" pays off.
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Cool Hand Luke
Mark Hertsgaard : The story of the plumber who helped deliver Indiana to Obama.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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The First 100 Days
: If Democrats can succeed in improving people's lives, the electorate won't care whether the Obama administration governs from left, right or center.
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Obama's New Deal
William P. Jones : Obama has an opportunity to further racial and economic justice by fusing the New Deal and civil rights traditions.
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Noted.
: Third-party gains, good times for Wal-Mart, the Minnesota recount and what's next for Howard Dean.
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Obama's Iraq Challenge
Robert Dreyfuss : Will Obama make good on his promise to end the war in Iraq?
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Remembering Studs
André Schiffrin : Studs Terkel's longtime publisher looks back on the historian's remarkable career.
Reviews
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book
Out of Africa
Fatin Abbas : Two new books by African writers share many flaws with their Western predecessors.
Columns
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DIARY OF A MAD LAW PROFESSOR
Uncooperative Housing
Patricia J. Williams : As our spanking-new era of optimism dawns, ask yourself, How integrated is your neighborhood?
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
These Are Better Days
Eric Alterman : A mighty train of change is coming to Washington: will the insider establishment hop aboard?
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LOOKOUT
In Praise of a Rocky Transition
Naomi Klein : Every sweetheart deal the Bush administration makes threatens to hobble Obama's ability to deliver on his promise of change.
Crossword
Web
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Close Gitmo, End Military Commissions
Brave New Films : The ACLU leads a campaign to shed light on the abuses at Gitmo and to pressure Obama to keep his promise to shut it down.
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Bearing the Weight of it All
Benjamin Todd Jealous : Barack Obama's electoral victory is momentous but ethereal. Progress is eroded when not pushed forward--and there is still much yet to be done.
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Team of Rivals: Overrated?
The Daily Show : Obama would rather have his rivals inside the tent peeing out, while Americans want a government that urinates very far away from the tent.
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TruthDig
Change We Can Bank On
Robert Scheer : Reject the old-boy network whose sexism, stupidity and greed helped drive our current financial crisis. How about Sheila Bair for Treasury Secretary?
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Howl
Why We Shouldn't Save GM
Nicholas von Hoffman : The bailout should be used to expand unemployment compensation instead of propping up a single, failing corporation.
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The Bailout of Joe Lieberman
Countdown : The Nation's Chris Hayes suggests that Congress might be too generous lately, by granting Joe Lieberman his beloved Homeland Security chairmanship.
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Obama's Latino Vote Mandate
Steve Cobble & Joe Velasquez : Latinos backed Obama by a 2-to-1 margin on election day and could be the biggest force behind a longterm, center-left political realignment.
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Radio Nation with Laura Flanders
Radio Nation : Nick Turse on a scandal that killed 11,000. Plus: Bob Dreyfuss, Patricia Williams and Frances Fox Piven on the nascent Obama policy agenda.
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The Short of It
Sloveniafest
Jordan Davis : What is it about Slovene poetry that has attracted so many American poets?
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Liberal Lion Returns
Talking Points Memo : Sen. Ted Kennedy triumphantly returns to the Senate and plans to make healthcare reform a top priority.
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No Gitmo, No Torture
CBS : President-elect Obama speaks with 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft about the need to restore America's moral standing in the world.
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The Right Choice at Treasury
Christopher Hayes : To avoid the mistakes of the past, there are two basic criteria: First, no Wall Streeters; second, no one who helped create the current crisis.
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Operation Enduring Disaster
Tariq Ali : Given a severe global economic crisis and the election of Barack Obama, the possibility of a serious discussion about a US exit strategy from the Afghan disaster hovers on the horizon.
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Biden Blunder Scale
Saturday Night Live : You don't think Joe Biden can give a train-wreck interview with Katie Couric? Just name the time and the place and he will bring the train.
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You Voted. Now What?
Kristina Rizga : Barack Obama may be able to seize the moment and push a new kind of politics, but not unless he is pushed to do so. So here's a young voter's post-election guide, from the grassroots to the Hill.
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Blackwater Busted?
Jeremy Scahill : Six Guards may be charged in Iraq massacre, but critics fear the company's 'reckless behavior' will continue.
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Howl
Paulson Plays While We Pay
Nicholas von Hoffman : A little under $300 billion of the $700 billion bailout has been invested, loaned out or lost. And as long as Henry Paulson's in charge, we won't know where it went.
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Let Lieberman Go
MSNBC : Rachel Maddow explains why it would be a terrible idea to let Lieberman remain Chairman of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs committees.
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Young Organizers Speak: We Are a New Coalition for the Common Interest
Matt Singer and Jefferson Smith Our generation can move beyond old battles of single-issue silos and narrow constituency interests into broader rainbow coalitions of new progressives.
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Big Election Losers
The Daily Show : Sarah Palin launches a PR blitz to show voters all they missed by not electing her queen of America.
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The Vietnam Exposé That Wasn't
Nick Turse : The untold story of US-perpetrated atrocities in Vietnam and how the press killed it.
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