Why Obama?

The stakes in 2012 and beyond.

Deepak Bhargava

Go for the Jugular

What a principled counterattack campaign against the GOP would look like.

Dorian T. Warren

Movements Need Politicians—and Vice Versa

Where their interests overlap, progressive politics can thrive.

Frances Fox Piven and Lorraine C. Minnite

We Need More than a New President

In a second Obama term, we must organize to win a new social contract for a new economy.

Saket Soni

Defeat the Reactionary White Elite

While preventing a Republican triumph is imperative, we should have no illusions about Obama.

Bill Fletcher Jr.

Obama’s Legacy Is Our Leverage

If he wins, he must use his platform and powers to tackle issues from global warming to nuclear arms control.

Tom Hayden

A Politics of Love

In this election and after, we need to write a new story for our changing nation that places care and connection at the center.

Ai-jen Poo

Re-elect Obama—but Reject His Austerity

In the contest that comes after November, Obama will be on the wrong team.

Robert L. Borosage

Time to Rewire

A Romney presidency would rob progressive movements of the oxygen required to grow deeper and broader roots.

Ilyse Hogue

Why the Native American Vote Could Win the Senate for Democrats

In four close Western races, the tribal population could tip the balance.

David Sarasohn

The Obama-Bashing Book Bonanza

A consolidated publishing industry, along with the right-wing media machine, has fostered the market for extremist hit jobs.

Michelle Goldberg

Re-Elect the President

Whatever disappointments progressives have with Obama's first term, we have a profound interest in the popular rejection of the Romney/Ryan ticket.

the Editors

Noted

Adam Hudson on living under drones, Peter Dreier on Barry Commoner, John Nichols on Bill Moyers’s new film on ALEC

Various Contributors

The Corporate War on Labor

Disguised by its billionaire backers as campaign finance reform, California’s Proposition 32 would destroy the political power of unions.

John Nichols

Remembering Eric Hobsbawm

Hobsbawm’s life and writings will long serve as an inspiration to those who believe that a knowledge of history is essential to working for a better world.

Eric Foner

Romney Outsources His Foreign Policy to the Neoconservatives

Calvin Trillin

Shut Up About the Jews Already…

How right-wing Jewish organizatons misrepresent both the views and the influence of American Jews.

Eric Alterman

What Race Has to Do With It

This election has posed a challenge of self-control for Republicans raised on a diet of welfare queens and Willie Horton.

Gary Younge

Remembering Eric Hobsbawm

Hobsbawm’s life and writings will long serve as an inspiration to those who believe that a knowledge of history is essential to working for a better world.

Eric Foner

Do You Only Have a Brain? On Thomas Nagel

A philosopher’s broadside against Darwinism and materialism is mostly an instrument of mischief.

Brian Leiter and Michael Weisberg

Breadwinner Conservatism: On Robert O. Self

How the American right’s obsession with male status legitimated the transition to a neoliberal ethos.

Michelle Goldberg

Raw Judicial Power: On William Rehnquist

The Partisan is a weak account of the career and legal thinking of a conservative and obstreperous chief justice.

Michael O’Donnell

The Obama-Bashing Book Bonanza

A consolidated publishing industry, along with the right-wing media machine, has fostered the market for extremist hit jobs.

Michelle Goldberg

Letters

Our Readers and Nathan Schneider

Puzzle No. 3255

Don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto