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The Editors Benefits extensions and retraining are not sufficient to address the staggering level of unemployment now facing Americans.
David Yaffe In Leonard Cohen's Afterworld, the trajectory between the latest hit and the wisdom of old has been a long one.
Frank W. Lewis
Robert Dreyfuss Can the United States and Iran negotiate an end to the nuclear standoff?
The Rachel Maddow Show The Nation's Dave Zirin weighs in on Rush Limbaugh's bid to buy the the St. Louis Rams football team.
Mark Hertsgaard A frightening new climate change study says the United States must quit carbon within ten years.
Eric Alterman Newsrooms' fears of misunderstanding the right leads to outsized coverage and attention.
William Greider The first step toward lasting financial reform is to identify the roots of the crisis.
Alexander Provan Is the task of philosophy "to learn how to die," or to teach that there is no such thing as a good death?
GRIT TV Is the so-called opt-out provision a worthy compromise for progressives who've already compromised just to get to a discussion of a public option?
Cathy Park Hong
The Editors
On healthcare, Representative Grayson lands a punch; momentum against "don't ask, don't tell"; Obama goes weak on press freedom; Greece votes socialist as Europe trends right.
Gary Younge
Marginal extremist voices are amplified by the right-wing echo chamber.
Noy Thrupkaew The campaign against forced prostitution works when it addresses victims' needs.
GRIT TV Author Sharon Lerner and Rep. Raul Grijalva discuss flaws in the Senate Finance Committee's health bill and increased popular support for a public option.
Christopher Hayes The quickest way to Rahm Emanuel's bad side: put progressive pressure on conservative Democrats.
Stuart Klawans
Alain Resnais's Wild Grass and Margot Benacerraf's Araya.
Antonio Gonzalez & Miguel Tinker Salas Having concluded that US and IMF/World Bank prescriptions failed their region, a new generation of leaders seek economic and social development through homegrown strategies.
Dave Zirin Rush Limbaugh's long history of racism should be enough to quash his chances of becoming an owner in the National Football League.
Robert Grossman
Greg Grandin Those who seized power in June have polarized society, delegitimized political institutions and empowered social movements.
Robert Scheer The healthcare debate has become a convenient distraction from the far more pressing issues surrounding the banking meltdown.
Tom Engelhardt Should President Obama and General McChrystal read the 111-year-old novel, The War of the Worlds?
Dave Zirin The real reason Limbaugh is losing his cool is that his dream of owning an NFL franchise is going up in smoke.
Greg Kaufmann At a recent Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, former CIA officers offered clear alternatives to escalation in Afghanistan.
William J. Astore Will Obama do any better at listening to critics of the Afghan War than Lyndon Johnson did on Vietnam?
Dan Chandler A grassroots group for LGBT activism, born at last weekend's National Equality March, plans to push Obama harder than established gay rights groups will.
Eric Naing At this past weekend's National Equality March, fury, or at least frustration, with the president trumped hope. On four key gay rights reforms, the administration's support is decidedly mixed at best.
Jessica Weisberg 287(g), the Department of Homeland Security program that empowers local police, like notorious Sheriff Joe Arpaio, to detain undocumented immigrants, is under scrutiny.