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Departments

LETTERS

• Response to the September/October Contrarian Editorial

EDITORIALS

• The 2008 Election
  Celebrate…and then organize! How to treat a centrist president who won his party’s nomination by championing a spiritual progressive politics.
• Criminals Giving Each Other Pardons
  Now is the moment to be tough on crime: presidential crime.
• Elections in Israel
  Livni’s crucial mistake; what we can expect from the Israeli elections.
• The Contrarian
  A New Conservative Progressive Agenda by GEORGE VRADENBURG
  

Politics and Society

• After the Victory: Engaging Obama Volunteers by RANDY SHAW
  Can the activists who got Obama elected now hold his feet to the fire?
• Awakening Our Faith in the Future:
  Obama’s Renewal of Our Liberal Identity by PETER DUNLAP
  We must each learn from Obama’s religious and emotional intelligence.
• Interfaith Work at the White House by EBOO PATEL
  And why not one day a Muslim president? Steps to pluralism.
• Where is Israel? Identities Beyond Geography by DAVID NEWMAN
  Is it an outpost of Europe, theU.S., or global Judaism, or is it aMiddle Eastern country?
• Protecting Your Child From Capitalism by ALLEN KANNER
  …and from imagination-sapping consumerism.
• Thirsty World Needs Global Marshall Plan by JAHANGIR VALIANI
  If you turn the tap and no water comes out, where are you?
• Economic Redesign for the Twenty-First Century by DAVID KORTEN
  It’s the ecology, stupid…and allowing the banks tomake our money.
  Korten gives us the tools to assess the pontificating economists.
• Love in Adversity by ALIX KATES SHULMAN
  A renowned feminist writer on becoming her husband’s caregiver.
• Higher Education Without Democracy?
  by HENRY GIROUX and CHRONIS POLYCHRONIOU
  We must defend the last bastion of public space.
• The Irresponsibility of Thomas Friedman by JEROME SLATER
  How the pundit systematically misrepresented the 2000 Camp David summit.

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