Jobless in America
Nicholas von Hoffman & Our Readers : Listen to the voices of the newly unemployed, as they tell their stories, vent their frustrations and share ideas of what government must do to help.
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Marc Perelman on demonstrations in France, Nicholas von Hoffman on letters from the unemployed, Alexander Cockburn on Barack Obama.
Articles
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The People's Sheriff of Chicago
John Conroy : A tenant protest compels Cook County's Tom Dart to suspend foreclosure evictions.
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Toxic Coal in Tennessee
Kelly Hearn : A massive coal sludge spill reveals the Tennessee Valley Authority has become a poster child for the failures of self-regulation.
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Mail Matters
Richard R. John : Will the Obama administration reaffirm the civic mandate of the Postal Service that was damaged during the Bush years?
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Don't Escalate in Afghanistan
: For the sake of the country, his presidency and peace in South Asia, Obama should take the US-led military escalation in Afghanistan off the table.
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Biden v. Summers
Christopher Hayes : As Larry Summers takes a dominant role in crafting economic policy, it's up to Joe Biden to protect the interests of the middle class.
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Noted.
: The fall of Tom Daschle and the RNC's choice of Michael Steele.
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France in the Streets
Marc Perelman : In cities and towns across France, people are calling for an in-depth economic revamping that favors the working class.
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'Retire Bush' Contest Winner
: The prize, an original drawing by Edward Sorel, is awarded to Kristen Wack. Here is what she thinks Bush should do in retirement, along with some other ideas.
Reviews
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Crash Landings
Bernard Avishai : Reviewing Paul Krugman's visionary book The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008.
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Happy Thoughts!
Jordan Davis : Poet Kevin Davies asks: are you better off than you were 13,000 years ago?
Columns
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BEAT THE DEVIL
Auguries in the Dawn of Obama-Time
Alexander Cockburn : At almost every level, his choices of people and policy have been calibrated to appease the establishment.
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
The Kindness of Strangers
Katha Pollitt : The global economic crisis is showing how wishful was the notion that philanthropy could save the world.
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LOOKOUT
All of Them Must Go
Naomi Klein : As cities around the world are rocked with protests, it's clear governments that respond to economic crisis with the discredited free-market agenda will not survive.
Crossword
Web
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Great Expectations for Obama
GRIT TV : Is the watered-down stimulus bill a signal of a more ambitious agenda for Obama or a harbinger of reduced expectations?
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CEOs Attempt to 'Rebrand' Bonuses
Countdown : They just don't get it. The Nation's Chris Hayes discusses the refusal of Wall Street CEOs to let their unearned bonuses go.
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Tiny Tim Sings Off-Key
William Greider : Geithner was condescending, vague and infuriating as he lectured us on the troubled financial system, feeding a suspicion that he's still working for the other side.
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Howl
Foreclosed Americans Fight Back
Nicholas von Hoffman : As a horrified nation sees millions evicted, community organizations--and at least one lawmaker--advise them to hold their ground.
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Jobs With Justice or Just Jobs?
GRIT TV : As the nation struggles to save and create jobs, how do we make sure workers aren't robbed? Plus: the battle to confirm Hilda Solis.
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William Greider on Democrats and Money
American News Project : The Nation's national affairs correspondent explains how the current economic crisis is a moment of reckoning for the Democratic party.
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A-Rod to Unravel Stories of Steroid Use
MSNBC : The Nation's Dave Zirin points out that when it comes to Major League Baseball and steroid use players are not the only ones who are wrong.
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TruthDig
No Tough Love for Bankers
Robert Scheer : If you still get those chatty e-mails from the Obama campaign, remind them that we voted for a community organizer from Chicago, not some hack carrying water for Wall Street.
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Fighting for Our Homes
Brave New Films : With Americans facing foreclosures and banks using bailout money to pay themselves, community organizing has proved to be the best defense for homeowners.
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Few Peacemakers in Israel's Knesset
Neve Gordon : Israeli voters have elected a majority of lawmakers who are against the two-state solution. Now it's up to the world--and the Obama administration--to respond.
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Screwed by the Fine Print
Kia Franklin : Hidden in the fine print of credit card agreements, patient consent forms and job contracts is an arbitration clause that deprives you of your rights. Congress needs to fix that.
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Bill O'Reilly's Hypocrisy on Privacy
The Daily Show : Jon Stewart ridicules the Fox News host for ambushing a Columbia Journalism Review staffer for publishing a piece by a writer from The Nation.
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The New Gold Standard: Jobs
Ken Miller : Keeping labor costs down used to be the standard to measure productivity. Now, it's all about creating jobs--and we can't afford to wait for the private sector to provide them.
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Angry America and the Bailout
Steve Fraser : As the bailout state goes into overdrive, popular anger at the lords of Wall Street is raging. In 1929, that anger was harnessed to result in huge change. Is the same change possible in 2009?
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The GOP Plays Politics With Our Economy
Countdown : The Nation's Chris Hayes explains how Republican opposition to Obama's stimulus is really the result of their own inability to govern.
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The Business of War
GRIT TV : Even as congress denies billions in assistance to states, there is little if any talk of cutting US defense spending. Who's profiting and what is their interest in maintaining a wartime economy?
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SOUTHPAW
A-Rod, Anabolic Agonist
Dave Zirin : When it comes to steroids, no one, as A-Rod's alleged paramour Madonna might say, is like a virgin.
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The Nation's Victor Navasky on Obama
The Real News Network : Navasky elaborates on his theory that President Obama might just be a "liberal in centrist clothing."
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Reid and Pelosi Get Spoofed
Saturday Night Live : Fred Armisen and Kristen Wiig play Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, while making the point that the Democrats are the ones in charge.
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No Oversight: Fed Gives Away Trillions
American News Project : Since the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, the Federal Reserve's balance sheet has expanded by $1.2 trillion with little oversight.
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How Will Obama Engage on Human Rights?
Barbara Crossette : Bipartisanship promises to be even harder to achieve on human rights than it is on a stimulus package. Two pending decisions at the United Nations will reveal the depth of the administration's commitment.
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Rejecting Republican Know-Nothings
The Rachel Maddow Show : After reviewing the arguments Senate Republicans are making for their intransigence on the stimulus bill, Maddow counters with the hard economic facts.
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Save the Solis Nomination
John Nichols : Labor secretary-designee Hilda Solis is not a toxic asset in the Obama personnel portfolio. The GOP is wrong to equate her husband's tax dispute with the infractions of high rollers like Geithner and Daschle.
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Steadfast Before Goliath
Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi : A leading Palestinian politician defends his people and their nonviolent resistance to Israeli occupation.
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Progressives and Obama
Nation Podcast : A panel discussion on progressive change in the Obama era, with Eli Pariser, William Greider, Patricia Williams and Lawrence Korb.
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Paul Krugman: GOP Is Led by Limbaugh
MSNBC : Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman defends Obama's stimulus package and paints Republicans as obstructionists.
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Jim Harney, 1940-2008
Laura Foner & David Weinstein : Guided by the principles of liberation theology, he devoted his life to the pursuit of peace and social justice.
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Will Sri Lanka Drive the Tigers to Extinction?
Sumana Raychaudhuri : The Liberation Tigers may be on the verge of final defeat. But will a government military victory really solve the Sinhalese-Tamil conflict?
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Slide Show: Waltz With Bashir, Part 2
Images from the graphic novel about the 1982 Lebanon War.
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Olbermann to Cheney: Please Go Away
Countdown : Keith Olbermann offers a thorough point-by-point rebuke of Cheney's recent terrorist fear-mongering.
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Slide Show: Week in Review
What made news in Washington and the world, from the pages of The Nation magazine and on TheNation.com.
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Howl
Settling Scores With Wall Street
Nicholas von Hoffman : A lot of angry people in America are lusting to bring Wall Street geniuses who engineered the financial collapse to justice. And they just might succeed.
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Rethink Escalation in Afghanistan
Brave New Films : The Obama administration must rethink its Afghanistan policy before committing more troops and money to the area.
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Say No to Nukes in the Stimulus Package
Harvey Wasserman : The nuclear power industry has dropped a $50 billion bomb into the Senate version of Obama's stimulus package for projects Wall Street wouldn't finance when it was flush.
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Reflections of a Troubled Israeli
Naomi Chazan : The Israeli left has emerged from the Gaza offensive weakened, dispirited, but not irrelevant. The bedrock of a change-oriented and open civil society exists.
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