A My Lai a Month
Nick Turse : In Operation Speedy Express, new evidence of civilian slaughter and cover-up in Vietnam.
The Editors on Obama's first 100 days, Patricia J. Williams on race, André Schiffrin on Studs Terkel.
Nick Turse : In Operation Speedy Express, new evidence of civilian slaughter and cover-up in Vietnam.
Frances Fox Piven : A grassroots push for reform can make Obama a great president.
Bob Moser : Obama's "Southern strategy" pays off.
Mark Hertsgaard
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The story of the plumber who helped deliver Indiana to Obama.
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If Democrats can succeed in improving people's lives, the electorate won't care whether the Obama administration governs from left, right or center.
William P. Jones : Obama has an opportunity to further racial and economic justice by fusing the New Deal and civil rights traditions.
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Third-party gains, good times for Wal-Mart, the Minnesota recount and what's next for Howard Dean.
Robert Dreyfuss : Will Obama make good on his promise to end the war in Iraq?
André Schiffrin
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Studs Terkel's longtime publisher looks back on the historian's remarkable career.
Fatin Abbas
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Two new books by African writers share many flaws with their Western predecessors.
Patricia J. Williams
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As our spanking-new era of optimism dawns, ask yourself, How integrated is your neighborhood?
Eric Alterman : A mighty train of change is coming to Washington: will the insider establishment hop aboard?
Naomi Klein : Every sweetheart deal the Bush administration makes threatens to hobble Obama's ability to deliver on his promise of change.
Robert Scheer : Reject the old-boy network whose sexism, stupidity and greed helped drive our current financial crisis. How about Sheila Bair for Treasury Secretary?
Nicholas von Hoffman : The bailout should be used to expand unemployment compensation instead of propping up a single, failing corporation.
Countdown : The Nation's Chris Hayes suggests that Congress might be too generous lately, by granting Joe Lieberman his beloved Homeland Security chairmanship.
Steve Cobble & Joe Velasquez : 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.
Radio Nation : Nick Turse on a scandal that killed 11,000. Plus: Bob Dreyfuss, Patricia Williams and Frances Fox Piven on the nascent Obama policy agenda.
Jordan Davis : What is it about Slovene poetry that has attracted so many American poets?
Talking Points Memo : Sen. Ted Kennedy triumphantly returns to the Senate and plans to make healthcare reform a top priority.
CBS : President-elect Obama speaks with 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft about the need to restore America's moral standing in the world.
Christopher Hayes : 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.
Tariq Ali : 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.
Saturday Night Live : You don't think Joe Biden can give a train-wreck interview with Katie Couric? Just name the time and the place and he will bring the train.
Kristina Rizga : A young voter's post-election guide, from the grassroots to the Hill.
Jeremy Scahill : Six Guards may be charged in Iraq massacre, but critics fear the company's 'reckless behavior' will continue.
Nicholas von Hoffman : 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.
MSNBC : Rachel Maddow explains why it would be a terrible idea to let Lieberman remain Chairman of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs committees.
Matt Singer and Jefferson Smith Our generation can move beyond old battles of single-issue silos and narrow constituency interests into broader rainbow coalitions of new progressives.
The Daily Show : Sarah Palin launches a PR blitz to show voters all they missed by not electing her queen of America.
Nick Turse : The untold story of US-perpetrated atrocities in Vietnam and how the press killed it.
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