• Time for a Bank Holiday

  William Greider : Banks & Banking

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

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  Bearing the Weight of it All

  Benjamin Todd Jealous : Race, Ethnicity & Religion

  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.

• Peach State Promises

  John Nichols : Georgia

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

• Nail That Double Standard to the Mast!

  Alexander Cockburn : U.S. Economy

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

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  Obama Needs a Protest Movement

  Frances Fox Piven : Presidential Election 2008

  A grassroots push for reform can make Obama a great president.

• Why We Shouldn't Save GM

  Nicholas von Hoffman : U.S. Economy

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

• Push Back on Prop 8

  Torie Osborn : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism

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

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  A New, Blue Dixie

  Bob Moser : Presidential Election 2008

  Obama's "Southern strategy" pays off.

• The Vietnam Exposé That Wasn't

  Nick Turse : Vietnam War

  The untold story of US-perpetrated atrocities in Vietnam and how the press killed it.

• In Praise of a Rocky Transition

  Naomi Klein : U.S. Economy

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

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  Obama's New Deal

  William P. Jones : Labor

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

• Operation Enduring Disaster

  Tariq Ali : Afghanistan

  Given a severe global economic crisis and the election of Barack Obama, the possibility of a serious discussion about a US exit strategy from the Afghan disaster hovers on the horizon.

• Obama's Latino Vote Mandate

  Steve Cobble & Joe Velasquez : Presidential Election 2008

  Latinos backed Obama by a 2-to-1 margin on election day and could be the biggest force behind a longterm, center-left political realignment.

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