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    LETTERS

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    EDITORIALS & COMMENTS

    The power of Wall Street money and ideas must give way to a new public agenda to restore the real economy.

    Laila Al-Arian | In compelling public testimony, US soldiers and Iraqi civilians bear witness to the horrors of combat.

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

    Michael T. Klare | Dick Cheney's Mideast tour suggests another catastrophic military adventure in the Persian Gulf is still in the cards.

    COLUMNS

    Calvin Trillin | Who asked her to the party? SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Steve Brodner

    Eric Alterman | A principled academic gets ground up in the media hypocrisy machine.

    Gary Younge | Wouldn't a real feminist also oppose racism?

    ARTICLES

    Richard Parker | What was it about the New Deal and Roosevelt that make the man and the era relevant today?

    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.

    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.

    Michael J. Copps | As we struggle for media democracy, let's take encouragement from the early actions of the FCC.

    Andrea Batista Schlesinger | The New Deal spirit of "persistent experimentation" yielded impressive results for the country. American leaders can recapture that spirit.

    Eric Schlosser | Today's relentless arguments against a higher minimum wage suggest that Roosevelt's battle is not yet won.

    Frances Moore Lappé | For Roosevelt, the New Deal was a way of advancing freedom, which depended on economic as much as political rights.

    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.

    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.

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

    Anna Deavere Smith | The US public is wonderfully diverse, but the arts are not equally accessible to all.

    Sherle R. Schwenninger | New Deal progressives believed the economy should exist to serve society, not the other way around.

    Stephen Duncombe | Today's progressive message-makers can learn a lot from Franklin Roosevelt's homey "fireside chats."

    Howard Zinn | How refreshing it would be if a presidential candidate reminded us of the experience of the New Deal.

    Rep. Maurice Hinchey | With the nation's economy in a slump, it's time for a twenty-first-century New Deal.

    BOOKS & THE ARTS

    Robin Einhorn | Woody Holton's history of America's origins celebrates the contributions of the common people.

    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.

    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. SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Arthur C. Danto | Mapping the difficulty, danger and beauty in the art of Nicholas Poussin. SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

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