Why the New Deal Matters
Richard Parker : What was it about the New Deal and Roosevelt that make the man and the era relevant today?
Michael T. Klare on Dick Cheney, Calvin Trillin on Geraldine Ferraro, Arthur C. Danto on Nicholas Poussin
Articles
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Toward a *New* New Deal (Forum)
: To commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the New Deal, The Nation invited a panel of activists, writers, scholars and artists to reflect on its lasting lessons.
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A Green Corps
Bill McKibben : The New Deal brought with it programs that served not only the good of the people and the economy but also the environment. We need that now more than ever.
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Not Your Father's FCC
Michael J. Copps : As we struggle for media democracy, let's take encouragement from the early actions of the FCC.
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A Chaos of Experimentation
Andrea Batista Schlesinger : The New Deal spirit of "persistent experimentation" yielded impressive results for the country. American leaders can recapture that spirit.
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The Bare Minimum
Eric Schlosser : Today's relentless arguments against a higher minimum wage suggest that Roosevelt's battle is not yet won.
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The Only Fitting Tribute
Frances Moore Lappé : For Roosevelt, the New Deal was a way of advancing freedom, which depended on economic as much as political rights.
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Race and the New Deal Coalition
Adolph Reed Jr. : Most New Deal programs were anything but race- and gender-neutral in their impact. They were both racially discrminatory and a boon to many black Americans.
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For the 'FDR'
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson : The Bush Administration's solutions for the subprime mortgage crisis are too little, too late. Americans need a New Deal-style agency to manage domestic reconstruction.
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Labor's New Deal
Andy Stern : Where the New Deal once served to rebalance the power between labor and capital, we are now perilously out of balance.
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Potent Publics
Anna Deavere Smith : The US public is wonderfully diverse, but the arts are not equally accessible to all.
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Democratizing Capital
Sherle R. Schwenninger : New Deal progressives believed the economy should exist to serve society, not the other way around.
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FDR's Democratic Propaganda
Stephen Duncombe : Today's progressive message-makers can learn a lot from Franklin Roosevelt's homey "fireside chats."
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Beyond the New Deal
Howard Zinn : How refreshing it would be if a presidential candidate reminded us of the experience of the New Deal.
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A Bold New Democratic Party
Rep. Maurice Hinchey : With the nation's economy in a slump, it's time for a twenty-first-century New Deal.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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The Gentlemen's Bailout
: The power of Wall Street money and ideas must give way to a new public agenda to restore the real economy.
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Winter Soldiers Speak
Laila Al-Arian : In compelling public testimony, US soldiers and Iraqi civilians bear witness to the horrors of combat.
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Noted.
: Congress finds a spine on wiretapping; a young writer defends the New Deal.
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Architect of War(s)
Michael T. Klare : Dick Cheney's Mideast tour suggests another catastrophic military adventure in the Persian Gulf is still in the cards.
Reviews
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Ordinary People
Robin Einhorn : Woody Holton's history of America's origins celebrates the contributions of the common people.
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Hard Times
Kim Phillips-Fein : Amity Schlaes's history of the Great Depression is nothing less than an attempt to reclaim the 1930s for the free market.
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Extreme Inequality
Daniel Brook : A look at the gap between rich and poor via two books: David Cay Johnson's Free Lunch and Michael J. Thompson's The Politics of Inequality.
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art
Just Looking
Arthur C. Danto : Mapping the difficulty, danger and beauty in the art of Nicholas Poussin.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
The Essence of Geraldine Ferraro's Explanation...
Calvin Trillin : Who asked her to the party?
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
The Ritual Sacrifice of Samantha Power
Eric Alterman : A principled academic gets ground up in the media hypocrisy machine.
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BENEATH THE RADAR
Obama, Ferraro, Wright: 'Postracial' Meets Racism
Gary Younge : Wouldn't a real feminist also oppose racism?
Web
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A Misunderstanding on Iraq
Katrina vanden Heuvel : Progressives who support Barack Obama must use the primary race help shape his policies on Iraq.
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How Green Is Your Collar?
Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello & Brendan Smith : Labor leaders and environmentalists meet to explore how to make green jobs good jobs for American workers.
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TruthDig
War of The Word
Robert Scheer : Why the fuss over Obama's pastor when Bible-based damnations for bad behavior is made in both black and white churches?
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Cautionary Healthcare Tales From California and Massachusetts
Trudy Lieberman : Signs of trouble no matter who is elected President.
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The Short of It
Victim 'Hood
Chris Lehmann : An account of the most recent installment in the nation's sick love affair with literary exhibitionists.
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Progressives for Obama
Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher Jr., Danny Glover & Barbara Ehrenreich : The future has arrived: progressives can make a difference to ensure Barack Obama is our next President.
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Passover as If Earth Really Matters
Arthur Waskow : Passover and Earth Day fall in the same week in April this year. Here's how environmental activists and people of faith can respond to this holy season of liberation.
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poetry
Her Field Is Her Consciousness
Marie Ponsot : Celebrating Alice Notley, winner of the 2007 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.
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Obama Gets Real, and Reflections on Take Back America
"We have dreamed of this kind of candor about race from a national platform."
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YM Blog-a-thon: Our Silent Majority
This month's topic is violence.
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Youth Surviving Subprime: Shady Lending Hits Home
The subprime crisis gives young homeowners a harsh education in predatory lending.
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book
Who's Got Game?
Robert Lipsyte : A new book advocates equality for men and women on the playing field. But is that still a field of dreams?
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Winter Soldier
Laila Al-Arian & Laura Hanna : In three days of wrenching public testimony in Washington, DC, Iraq War veterans shared the horrors of war.
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Fiction
Things That Go Bump in the Night
Gary Phillips : This week's episode of Citizen Kang: Congresswoman Kang has some lascivious ideas about a certain cop, her shot-at chief of staff returns to town and all manner of deviltry is about to jump off.
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