Culture War Battle Stations Culture War Battle Stations

Part of the promise of the Obama campaign from the beginning has always been that he can somehow bring the culture wars to a close. There's reason to believe in this promise: if t...

Sep 9, 2008 / Chris Hayes

Puzzle No. 3137 Puzzle No. 3137

ACROSS

1 and 5 One sometimes does before shaving--with heavy exercise, too. (5,2,1,6)

Sep 9, 2008 / Frank W. Lewis

Whither Capital Punishment Whither Capital Punishment

As a seven-month national moratorium on executions comes to an end, where does the student movement against the death penalty go?

Sep 9, 2008 / StudentNation / The Nation

The Short Attention Span Society The Short Attention Span Society

  I wake up this morning and The Today Show informs me that suddenly after a week of hearing about Obama's post-convention bounce,John McCain is now ahead and has all the mom...

Sep 9, 2008 / Adam Howard

Reading Bob Woodward Reading Bob Woodward

Reading Bob Woodward's The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008, is like reading raw transcripts of documents and interviews from a sensational murder trial: you kno...

Sep 9, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss

State Capitalism Comes to America State Capitalism Comes to America

A historic line has been crossed. With no debate or commitment to policy or principle, an enormous segment of the American economy has been turned over to the government.

Sep 8, 2008 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman

Sarah Palin and the Jews Sarah Palin and the Jews

Sarah Palin took the biblical Queen Esther as her role model when she became governor, according to her former pastor--a report that suggests her ties to Jewish history are stronge...

Sep 8, 2008 / Jon Wiener

Powervote Powervote

New effort to build a green youth voter bloc of one million is growing.

Sep 8, 2008 / StudentNation / The Nation

The Silence of Lambs The Silence of Lambs

The 2008 election has many unusual aspects, but none is more bizarrethan the sorry spectacle of the bailout for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. American voters are like the lambs bein...

Sep 8, 2008 / William Greider

Beyond the Ballot: Young Black Men and Voting Beyond the Ballot: Young Black Men and Voting

While youth voting is on the rise, barriers to civic engagement among working-class black youth persist. How are activists going beyond voter registration to break down these barri...

Sep 8, 2008 / The Nation