Bearing the Weight of it All

Barack Obama's electoral victory is momentous but ethereal. Progress is eroded when not pushed forward--and there is still much yet to be done.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

The Right Choice at Treasury

To avoid the mistakes of the past, there are two basic criteria: First, no Wall Streeters; second, no one who helped create the current crisis.

Chris Hayes

Remembering Studs

Studs Terkel's longtime publisher looks back on the historian's remarkable career.

André Schiffrin

Obama’s Iraq Challenge

Will Obama make good on his promise to end the war in Iraq?

Bob Dreyfuss

Obama’s New Deal

Obama has an opportunity to further racial and economic justice by fusing the New Deal and civil rights traditions.

William P. Jones

Noted.

Third-party gains, good times for Wal-Mart, the Minnesota recount and what's next for Howard Dean.

The Editors

The First 100 Days

If Democrats can succeed in improving people's lives, the electorate won't care whether the Obama administration governs from left, right or center.

The Editors

Change We Can Bank On

Reject the old-boy network whose sexism, stupidity and greed helped drive our current financial crisis. How about Sheila Bair for Treasury Secretary?

Robert Scheer

Why We Shouldn’t Save GM

The bailout should be used to expand unemployment compensation instead of propping up a single, failing corporation.

Nicholas von Hoffman

Paulson Plays While We Pay

A little under $300 billion of the $700 billion bailout has been invested, loaned out or lost. And as long as Henry Paulson's in charge, we won't know where it went.

Nicholas von Hoffman

In Praise of a Rocky Transition

Every sweetheart deal the Bush administration makes threatens to hobble Obama's ability to deliver on his promise of change.

Naomi Klein

These Are Better Days

A mighty train of change is coming to Washington: will the insider establishment hop aboard?

Eric Alterman

Uncooperative Housing

As our spanking-new era of optimism dawns, ask yourself, How integrated is your neighborhood?

Patricia J. Williams

On the Trashing of Sarah Palin

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Hoary Myth Laid to Rest

Great Falls, Va.

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