Maverick to Nowhere Maverick to Nowhere
Sarah Palin's record in Alaskan politics lays bare the myth of her maverick credentials.
Sep 9, 2008 / Talking Points Memo
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