Can Obama Take On the Pentagon?

Taking on the Pentagon, with its mega-budget and its mega-power, may be the hardest task Barack Obama faces.

Frida Berrigan

Sunrise, Sunset

In this last episode we mostly wrap things up, but leave a few strange matters for earthly or cosmic interpretation.

Gary Phillips

Past and Future

Obama's too smart to allow the ideas of the past to define his presidency. Yet Timothy Geithner is an architect and enabler of the unfolding crisis.

William Greider

John Leonard

Toni Morrison, Victor Navasky and Gene Seymour remember a noted author, editor, critic and all-around stellar human being.

The Nation

Push Back on Prop 8

If the courts don't overturn Proposition 8, expect an initiative challenging it to appear on a California ballot.

Torie Osborn

Noted.

Kristina Rizga on harnessing young voters' energy, Stephen Duncombe on a spoof edition of the New York Times

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Peach State Promises

Obama should make a serious campaign swing through Georgia to get out the vote for Senate hopeful Jim Martin.

John Nichols

Time for a Bank Holiday

No more free money from Washington. No more masters of the universe. No more business as usual.

William Greider

Nation Contest: Retire Bush!

What should W. do after leaving office? Enter our contest and win an Edward Sorel cartoon.

Edward Sorel

Return of the Wall Street Hustlers

Obama, who promised change, has put the same old Wall Street hustlers on his economic team. Maybe he could send us an e-mail to explain.

Robert Scheer

Obama Faces Deflation Risk

Wall Street was buoyed by the appointment of Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary. But that can't offset worries that deflation will compound our economic woes.

Nicholas von Hoffman

Mark Cuban Libre

Billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has been accused of insider trading. Is he guilty or just a target because of his larger-than-life persona and populist appeal?

Dave Zirin

The People’s Choice

Finally, a prochoice president. Here are five ways to solidify his position.

Katha Pollitt

Nail That Double Standard to the Mast!

If America loses its domestic auto industry, 5 percent of the workforce may be on the street. Don't workers need a bailout, too?

Alexander Cockburn

Obama Reaches Out to Former Foes

Team of rivals for the twenty-first century.

Calvin Trillin

How Wood Works: The Riches and Limits of James Wood

James Wood may be the best literary critic we have, but the status he enjoys reveals just how far we have fallen.

William Deresiewicz

Her Nature Was Future: Emily Dickinson’s White Heat

The intimate friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson takes wing in two new books.

Ange Mlinko

Back Talk: Toni Morrison

The Nobel Prize-winning author talks about Barack Obama, the writer; language; and her new novel, A Mercy.

Christine Smallwood

Naipaul’s Darkness: Patrick French’s ‘The World Is What It Is’

Biographer Patrick French offers a vivid, sometimes enthralling portrait of a deeply enigmatic writer.

Scott Sherman

Stewartsville: George R. Stewart’s Names on the Land

What possessed the fierce individualist George R. Stewart to compile a history of place-naming in the United States?

Christine Smallwood

Alone Among the Ghosts: Roberto Bolano’s ‘2666’

Roberto Bolaño's last novel, 2666, is his most profound exploration of art and infamy, craft and crime, the writer and the totalitarian state.

Marcela Valdes

Poorly Grounded Notions

Keith Waldrop

The Sea-Fight Tomorrow

Keith Waldrop

Night Soil

Keith Waldrop

Letters

Working to Drop the Rock

New York City

Our Readers

Puzzle No. 3147

ACROSS

 1 Possibly senile, but that's one way to store things. (6)

Frank W. Lewis