Doing the Recovery Right
Robert Pollin : America's transformation to a clean-energy economy could merge the aims of environmental protection and social justice.
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Liza Featherstone on green jobs, John Nichols on Russ Feingold, Christine Smallwood on Nato Thompson
Articles
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The Power of Transparency
Greg LeRoy : Obama can ensure his recovery plan is untainted by corruption and waste by mandating controls that track where money flows and evaluate results.
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Help Wanted for Green Jobs
Liza Featherstone : It's inspiring to have a president who talks the talk on green-collar jobs. But we need megawatts, not just megawords.
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Ticket to Ride
Ben Adler : The greenest way to lift the country out of a deepening recession is to put people to work building mass transit.
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Think Solar, Think Small
Craig D. Rose : The greening of America's power grid is a challenge to reject mega-projects in favor of local ones that harness renewable resources.
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Newark's Great Green Hope
J. Lester Feder : Even without an infusion of federal dollars, green jobs are becoming a reality in cities like Newark, New Jersey.
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Good Work--If Youth Can Find It
Kristina Rizga : Youth organizers have reason to hope green jobs can help change young lives.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Let the Sun Shine In
Jon Wiener : The era of secrecy in government is officially over.
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Go Geoghegan!
: Tom Geoghegan, labor lawyer, writer and activist, is running for Congress on a platform that's a model for the post-meltdown era.
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Noted.
: Katha Pollitt on Obama and global gag rule, Megan Buskey on AIDS in Iran, Corbin Hiar on elections in Ghana, Sonia Shah on scientists for human rights
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Bush's War Totals
John Tirman : The human cost of Bush's war: 1 million dead. 4.5 million displaced. 1 million to 2 million widows. 5 million orphans.
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Senate Selection Scam
John Nichols : Russ Feingold is leading the charge to close the constitutional loophole that allows governors to appoint senators.
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Never Say You're Sorry
Christopher Hayes : Why do people like Larry Summers, Tim Geithner and Gary Gensler keep getting the Obama administration's plum jobs?
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The Mitchell Moment
Roane Carey : Will the president have the courage to allow George Mitchell to apply the lessons of his experience of high-stakes conflict resolution?
Reviews
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Further Adventures in Editing
Ted Solotaroff : Cynthia Ozick, Norman Podhoretz and Alfred Chester contribute to the education of an editor. Second of a two-part memoir.
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Back Talk: Nato Thompson
Christine Smallwood : A conversation with Nato Thompson on experimental geography, Trevor Paglen and the outlook for the arts.
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The Tattoo Archipelago
Megan Buskey : The taxonomy of Russian criminal tattoos.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
So It Goes With Wall Street Titan John A. Thain
Calvin Trillin : They all said he was a genius. They were wrong.
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
The Defamation League
Eric Alterman : Abe Foxman and Bill Kristol gutlessly attack Bill Moyers and David Grossman.
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BENEATH THE RADAR
Beyond Hope
Gary Younge : When the government is organizing a movement to back the government in the name of progressive politics, something is seriously awry.
Crossword
Web
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The White House Information Wars
GRIT TV : Has the Obama administration's attempt to 'reach the public without having to rely on the mainstream media' worked? Hendrik Hertzberg and other journalists weigh in.
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Can Obama's Economic Team Be Trusted?
Countdown : Nation editor Chris Hayes examines the record of Obama's CFTC pick Gary Gensler and the rest of the president's economic team.
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Blackwater: Leaving Iraq, Chasing Pirates?
Brett Story : The Nation's Jeremy Scahill reports that while Blackwater's Iraq contract won't be renewed, the powerful military corporation has no plans to slow down.
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Patrick Cockburn on America's Defeat
GRIT TV : Patrick Cockburn, David Enders and Bassam Haddad discuss the recent elections in Iraq and the withdrawal of American troops.
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Sen. Sanders Slams Corporate CEO Bonuses
The Rachel Maddow Show : What are President Obama and Congress doing to curb Wall Street greed? Vermont's progressive senator weighs in.
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Can Obama Rebound Over Tax Woes?
The Today Show : The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel and right wing radio host Laura Ingraham debate the impact of Daschle on Obama's agenda.
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TruthDig
Wall Street in Washington
Robert Scheer : Of the three tax-challenged Obama appointees, only Timothy Geithner has survived. Is that luck or is there still something special about being from Wall Street?
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The Pseudo Stimulus
James S. Henry : There is much less to Obama's stimulus plan than meets the eye. What's he going to do about it?
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GOP's Elephant in the Room
The Daily Show : Jon Stewart points out the Obama bandwagon effect in the Republican election of Michael Steele as GOP Chairman.
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Will The Stimulus Create Jobs?
GRIT TV : Economists Dean Baker and Teresa Ghilarducci, the New York Times's Louis Uchitelle and others discuss the economic recovery plan.
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Who Madoff and Who Made More?
GRIT TV : What separates Bernie Madoff from the titans of Wall Street? For one thing, he doesn't have the backing of Uncle Sam.
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Mystery of the Missing Pardons
Terry Jones : Why were there no mentions of pardons before Bush boarded that helicopter to obscurity?
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Stimulus: One Percent for the Imagination
John Cavanagh, E. Ethelbert Miller & Melissa Tuckey : One percent of the stimulus package should be spent on rehabilitating America's crumbling cultural infrastructure.
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Obama: The Mayor of Bummer City
Saturday Night Live : Obama urges Americans to remember the good times because the economic outlook gives little cause for hope.
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Slide Show: Waltz With Bashir
Images from the graphic novel about the 1982 Lebanon War.
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Southpaw
The Recession Bowl
Dave Zirin : In America's first hard-times Super Bowl, superb athletes and a thrillingly played game rose to the challenge. Maybe the country can, too.
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Obama's Security Priorities
Aziz Huq : He has significantly pivoted US policy on torture. But where the president stands on warrantless wiretapping should give progressives some cause for concern.
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Is the GOP the Obstruction Party?
Countdown : The Nation's Chris Hayes explains why bipartisan overtures from Democrats failed to win GOP support for Obama's stimulus bill.
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A City Made of Waste
Laura Hanna : Architect Teddy Cruz investigates a new kind of urban ecology in Tijuana, where creative dwellings for the poor are being developed.
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Challenging the 'Corporate Hustlers'
MSNBC : Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel presses for a complete re-thinking of the economic system based on sustainable industry and high wages.
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New Jobs for a Green Economy
Brett Story : Robert Pollin and Liza Featherstone explore the potential of a green economy and the importance of achieving it the right way.
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A City Made of Waste
Teddy Cruz : Across the border from San Diego in Tijuana, a spontaneous urban space is taking shape off the radar of city planners, as an affluent city sheds its aging houses and the pieces are reassembled into creative dwellings for the poor.
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What Would Molly Think?
Betsy Moon : Molly Ivins would have loved the outcome of the November election. In a way, she saw it coming.
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Slide Show: Our Fragile Planet
Images that capture the challenges facing our environment and the reforms needed to save it.
Cover design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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