Looting Social Security
William Greider : Behind closed doors, advocates of entitlement reform are pushing Obama to tap the Social Security surplus to pay for bank bailouts. It could be a defining test for new politics in the Obama era.
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David Cole on Obama's state secrets, Calvin Trillin on Tom Daschle, Negar Azimi on Iran
Articles
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Blue Dogs Bark
Christopher Hayes : Why do the Blue Dog Democrats get so much attention? They're more unified and cohesive than any other House faction. And then there's America's love affair with fiscal conservatism.
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Britain's Winter of Discontent
D.D. Guttenplan : The global economic crisis hits Britain harder than any other developed country. Is it too big to fail?
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Bankrupt Bailout
: Don't exhaust the Treasury to keep insolvent financial giants alive. The government should liquidate failed banks, sell off their assets and let shareholders eat the dust.
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Pay-Cap Populism
Sarah Anderson & Sam Pizzigati : Excessive executive pay endangers our public well-being as surely as any pollutants. Obama's $500,000 pay cap is just a start at fixing the problem.
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Noted.
: Max Fraser on New York Wage Watch, Denise DiStephan on the Paycheck Fairness Act, John Nichols on Hilda Solis, Deborah Meier on teachers organizing
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Cut the Military Budget--I
Christopher Hayes : Reining in the Pentagon's wanton spending habits is going to be a long, hard slog.
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Cut the Military Budget--II
Barney Frank : Where will we find the money to finance healthcare reform? Start with the military budget.
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Obama Backslides on 'State Secrets'
David Cole : The president has shown a troubling unwillingness to acknowledge the wrongs the Bush administration committed.
Reviews
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Back Talk: Adam Frank
Christine Smallwood : A conversation with astrophysicist Adam Frank about science, religion and manifestations of the sacred in the physical world.
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States of Mind: The Idea of Iran
Negar Azimi : Thirty years after the Islamic revolution, Iran teeters on the brink of a different kind of revolt. Four books shed light on an ancient nation's many incarnations.
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The Human Metaphor
Barry Schwabsky : The paintings of Marlene Dumas, at the Museum of Modern Art, and Barkley Hendricks, at the Studio Museum of Harlem.
Columns
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DIARY OF A MAD LAW PROFESSOR
Eight Is Enough
Patricia J. Williams : With the birth of Nadya Suleman's octuplets, we confront the virtues of motherhood, the ethics of fertility clinics and the myths we still concoct about childless women's worth.
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
Save the News, Not the Newspaper
Eric Alterman : The newspaper industry is falling off a cliff and with it may go much of our civil discourse.
Crossword
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Can We Take The Media Seriously?
GRIT TV : Is the media out of touch? We talk about the good, the bad, the ugly--and The Nation's Leslie Savan on the Oscars.
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Rep. Bachmann Strikes Out Yet Again
Countdown : The Nation's Chris Hayes crowns Congresswoman Michele Bachmann the Demi Glas of Wingnuttia for her ignorant attack on the stimulus plan.
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Can a Green Economy Save a Drying Planet?
Tom Engelhardt : While we are busy addressing the economic meltdown, the worst droughts in history present a new, possibly bigger threat that there's no clear roadmap for fixing.
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Homeowners Need a Bailout Too
Brave New Films : Representative Marcy Kaptur and economist Dean Baker discuss the housing crisis in this special presentation of 'Fighting For Our Homes.'
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Tell The Nation
: In big ways and small, the recession is having an impact on our daily lives. Help The Nation track the changes.
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Will You Go Broke to Keep Your House?
GRIT TV : Will Obama's $75 billion homeowner bailout plan work? Fair housing activists Sarah Ludwig, Paul Leonard and others discuss the foreclosure crisis.
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TruthDig
Good Money After Bad
Robert Scheer : Obama's stimulus bill is far too modest to arrest an economy in free fall. But if it were up to the GOP, which largely created the mess, we'd be doing nothing at all.
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Stop the Looting of Social Security
Brett Story : The Nation's William Greider warns that if progressives don't engage with President Obama more, forces advocating for 'entitlement reform' will gut social security.
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The Burger King Bailout Shocker
Brave New Films : The treatment of workers at Burger King stands in stark contrast to the extravagant bonuses awarded to Goldman Sach's bailed-out bankers.
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The Worst of the Stimulus Smears
Media Matters for America : Hilarycare...Welfare...Socialism! In case you forgot the bilious opposition the stimulus bill inspired, here is a repulsive recap.
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Does Gaza Matter?
GRIT TV : Hampshire College made headlines after announcing that it would divest from companies that do business with Israel. Do their actions indicate the beginning of a larger campaign?
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Ghost Story: Put Banks Out of Their Misery
Nicholas von Hoffman : America's largest financial institutions are insolvent. It's time to face the truth and take the painful actions that will allow the economy to recover.
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Slide Show: The Nation's Oscars
Images from the Oscar-winning films of the past and reviews from Nation critics who loved/hated them.
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Youth in Action: Carmen Berkley, the United States Student Association
Suemedha Sood You voted, now what? First, identify what issue burns you in your belly, Berkley suggests.
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Labor's Man Joins Treasury Team
William Greider : Ron Bloom, a former I-banker with the head and heart of a labor activist, has been tapped to advise the Obama administration on the auto bailout. Let's hope they listen to him.
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Can Green Jobs Be Good Jobs?
Jeremy Brecher : It felt like a dream a year ago, but a growing coalition of labor unions and environmentalists is putting real muscle into the idea that green jobs will help resolve the economic crisis.
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A World Without Water
Tara Lohan : Dr. Peter Gleick, founder and president of the Pacific Institute, weighs in on the severity and urgency of the global water crisis.
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President Obama and Progressives
The Real News Network : The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel argues progressives must keep pressure on the administration to move the country in a new direction.
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A New Turn in Latin America?
GRIT TV : Venezuela's Hugo Chávez is willing to engage in direct talks with President Obama. How will this effect US policy in the region?
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Secret GOP Strategy Session Revealed
Saturday Night Live : The Republicans on Capitol Hill celebrate their 'victory' in the stimulus fight and plot their next scheme: taking down the Obama girls.
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William Greider Responds
William Greider : William Greider defends his analysis of how Social Security is threatened by entitlement reformists.
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Anatomy of a Stimulus Smear
Countdown : Keith Olbermann explores how Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and other right wingers managed to spread outright lies about the stimulus.
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The Peterson Foundation Responds
David M. Walker, president and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, responds to William Greider's essay, Looting Wall Street, published in the March 2 edition of The Nation.
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WSF: Is Another World Possible?
Tim Costello & Brendan Smith : At a time of economic, climatic and political crisis, advocates of social justice gathered for the annual World Social Forum to contemplate a new vision for a better world.
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Slide Show: The Great Recession
The human face of the ongoing global economic meltdown: perpetrators and victims of the crisis, plus some outside-the box solutions.
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Obama and the Press
VideoNation : A panel discussion for student journalists focused on what new challenges and opportunities Barack Obama's election present to journalists
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Did the Democratic Party Exploit Hip-Hop?
Nina Jacinto Is Barack Obama is America's first hip-hop president?
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From Playaz to Leaderz
Tomas Palermo Former gangsters help a Bay Area organization use people power to transform communities block by block.
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Detroit: Arsenal of Creativity
Jenny Lee With Detroit's auto industry in decline, activists argue for a media-based economy to change the city's fortunes.
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Under the Icelandic Volcano
Rebecca Solnit : How a cold country lost its shirt in the global economic meltdown, but ultimately found its soul.
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Nation Critic's Picks: Gomorah, The Class
Brett Story : The Nation's film critic Stuart Klawans weighs in on two of the most acclaimed foreign films of 2008.
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Your Valentine, Made in Prison
Beth Schwartzapfel : This Valentine's Day you might want to steer clear of Victoria's Secret, unless you like your lingerie made by prisoners.
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Henri Cole: The Art of Violent Concision
John Koethe : Henri Cole's Blackbird and Wolf contains some of the most truthful poems in modern American poetry. He is this year's winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.
Cover design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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