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Spreading the Wealth: Knowledge as Social Inheritance Spreading the Wealth: Knowledge as Social Inheritance

Amid the ruins of a new gilded age, the devalued and depressed American people are ready to demand more.

Nov 25, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Mark Engler

The House Folds: The Housing Market and Irrational Exuberance The House Folds: The Housing Market and Irrational Exuberance

Without a commitment to affordable housing for all, the ownership society remains a myth for many Americans.

Nov 25, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Max Fraser

Stolen Kisses: Iran’s Sexual Revolutions Stolen Kisses: Iran’s Sexual Revolutions

Is sexual promiscuity in Iran a sign of political ferment or of an unmoored generation's dissipated energies?

Nov 25, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Laura Secor

Election’s Over–Time to Begin Election’s Over–Time to Begin

How millions of Obama volunteers can go to work for a progressive agenda.

Nov 25, 2008 / Feature / Michael Pertschuk

How to Save Motor City How to Save Motor City

Letting Detroit fail: catastrophic. Transforming it into a lean green machine-maker: visionary.

Nov 25, 2008 / Feature / Marissa Colón-Margolies

Conversations With Chavez and Castro Conversations With Chavez and Castro

Conversations with Raul Castro about Obama, Guantánamo and the Pentagon; and with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on human rights in his country and the next US administration.

Nov 25, 2008 / Feature / Sean Penn

Letters Letters

Goodbye Robocalls?

Amissville, Va.

Nov 25, 2008 / Our Readers

Power Shift 2009 Power Shift 2009

Ten thousand young activists are planning to underscore the urgency of dramatic action on climate change.

Nov 25, 2008 / StudentNation / The Nation

Power Shift 2009 Power Shift 2009

In November of 2007 the Energy Action Coalition brought together more than 6,000 young activists for the first ever national youth conference to solve the climate crisis. Watch hi...

Nov 25, 2008 / Peter Rothberg

Unconditional Love Song Unconditional Love Song

Later she would remember it started to pour the storm blew everything out before the coffee finished its brew and she could finish reading a report on some boys holed up in a derelict house after stoning a swan to death she wrapped her head in a towel and sat down by the open window even though the sound of the river was not there the memory of the sound was even though her husband did not appear in the door talking to her about the day ahead the day ahead was there

Nov 25, 2008 / Books & the Arts / C.D. Wright

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