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?
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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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book
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 of Why Barack Obama Is in the Lead for the Democratic Presidential Nomination
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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