Follow-ups for Sarah Palin Follow-ups for Sarah Palin
Don't let reproductive rights get lost in the run-up to Election Day.
Oct 8, 2008 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Bailout Signals the Election Is Over Bailout Signals the Election Is Over
By approving the bailout, Congress sealed our political fate more firmly than any presidential election.
Oct 8, 2008 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Letters Letters
Coming of Age in Papua New Guinea
Arlington, Va.
Oct 8, 2008 / D.D. Guttenplan, Mark Dowie, and Our Readers
VA Fails Vets on the Vote VA Fails Vets on the Vote
Last month I wroteabout important legislation designed to help veterans vote in theupcoming election, the Veteran Voting Support Act (S. 3308). Introducedby Senators Dianne Fein...
Oct 8, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
No More Stolen Elections! No More Stolen Elections!
The 2000 presidential election was an in-broad-daylight assault on both the concept of democracy and its practice in the United States. Democrat Al Gore received 543,895 more vote...
Oct 8, 2008 / John Nichols
Prison Poem: “You stripped away the sea… #11” Prison Poem: “You stripped away the sea… #11”
After stripping me of the seas, a scattering & running start, And giving me instead a foothold of violent earth, What'd it get you? A brilliant retribution: You couldn't seize these lips still stirring. (Translated from the Russian by John High)
Oct 8, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Osip Mandelstam
Who Is the Oracle? Who Is the Oracle?
Tuesday night's Presidential debate in Nashville featured a notable clash or two, but on one topic there was agreement: Warren Buffett. The so-called "Oracle of Omaha" is...
Oct 8, 2008 / Laura Flanders
Wanted: Political Poetry Wanted: Political Poetry
Are you worried about the election? Do you write haiku? People for the American Way and The Nation invite your entries the McPalin Haiku Hysteria competition.
Oct 8, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Erica Landau
Lee Atwater’s Legacy Lee Atwater’s Legacy
Rebel. Liar. Attack dog. Bigot. Stefan Forbes's Boogie Man assesses the enduring damage Lee Atwater did to our political process.
Oct 8, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Antonino D’Ambrosio
Someone Watching Sarah Palin’s Campaign Tactics Imagines How She Might Challenge a Referee’s Call in a Sixth-Grade Hockey Game Someone Watching Sarah Palin’s Campaign Tactics Imagines How She Might Challenge a Referee’s Call in a Sixth-Grade Hockey Game
Push back on the pushy hockey mom.
Oct 8, 2008 / Column / Calvin Trillin