Barbara Lee’s War on Poverty Barbara Lee’s War on Poverty
Recently, Congresswoman Barbara Lee said to me, "This is a moment when people are suffering. They are one paycheck -- if they have a paycheck -- away from poverty." That's why L...
Mar 24, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Obama Gets Real, and Reflections on Take Back America Obama Gets Real, and Reflections on Take Back America
"We have dreamed of this kind of candor about race from a national platform."
Mar 24, 2008 / The Nation
YM Blog-a-thon: Our Silent Majority YM Blog-a-thon: Our Silent Majority
This month's topic is violence.
Mar 24, 2008 / The Nation
Youth Surviving Subprime: Shady Lending Hits Home Youth Surviving Subprime: Shady Lending Hits Home
The subprime crisis gives young homeowners a harsh education in predatory lending.
Mar 24, 2008 / The Nation
Who’s Got Game? Who’s Got Game?
A new book advocates equality for men and women on the playing field. But is that still a field of dreams?
Mar 24, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Lipsyte
Winter Soldier Winter Soldier
In three days of wrenching public testimony in Washington, DC, Iraq War veterans shared the horrors of war.
Mar 24, 2008 / Laura Hanna and Laila Al-Arian
Not the Lady But the Tiger Not the Lady But the Tiger
Once again last week, the President and his men surged into the headlines, announcing that we had just zipped past yet another of those Iraqi "turning points." Or, as Ge...
Mar 24, 2008 / TomDispatch
Why Is the Financial Crisis So Absent From the Campaign? Why Is the Financial Crisis So Absent From the Campaign?
That's what Paul Krugman rightly wants to know. For months I've been struck by the jarring disconnect between the finance blogs I read, where people are basically screaming at the...
Mar 24, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Things That Go Bump in the Night Things That Go Bump in the Night
This week's episode of Citizen Kang: Congresswoman Kang has some lascivious ideas about a certain cop, her shot-at chief of staff returns to town and all manner of deviltry is abou...
Mar 24, 2008 / Feature / Gary Phillips
Bush Whacks the Wall of Separation Bush Whacks the Wall of Separation
Thomas Jefferson observed in his January 1, 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists that America was not a church state. As such, he explained, it was the president's duty to refrai...
Mar 22, 2008 / John Nichols