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April 7, 2008 Issue

Michael T. Klare on Dick Cheney, Calvin Trillin on Geraldine Ferraro, Arthur C. Danto on Nicholas Poussin…

Cover art by: Cover art and icon illustrations by Ennis Carter, ­Design for Social Impact; cover design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels

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Editorial

Noted.

Congress finds a spine on wiretapping; a young writer defends the New Deal.

Column

War of The Word

Why the fuss over Obama's pastor when Bible-based damnations for bad behavior is made in both black and white churches?

Letters

Feature

Labor’s New Deal

Where the New Deal once served to rebalance the power between labor and capital, we are now perilously out of balance.

For the ‘FDR’

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.

A Green Corps

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.

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.

Books & the Arts

Poem

Thank Gerard
Cascade: rain torrential rain
waterfalls down our stone facade.

Extreme Inequality

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.

Hard Times

Amity Schlaes's history of the Great Depression is nothing less than an attempt to reclaim the 1930s for the free market.

Labor’s New Deal

Where the New Deal once served to rebalance the power between labor and capital, we are now perilously out of balance.

For the ‘FDR’

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.

A Green Corps

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.

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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