Spend the Bailout Money on the Middle Class Spend the Bailout Money on the Middle Class
Take a tip from the New Deal: invest that $700 billion in jobs and mortgage aid for those who need it most.
Oct 8, 2008 / Howard Zinn
Invest in the Real Economy Invest in the Real Economy
Government can soften the recession's impact by spending money--lots of it--to stimulate the real economy.
Oct 8, 2008 / The Editors
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