• After Musharraf

  Barbara Crossette : Pakistan

  Pervez Musharraf is history, but his opponents seem unable to agree on what to do next. After so many disappointments, can this fledgling democracy rise to the occasion?

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  Mad for Rachel Maddow

  Rebecca Traister : Media

  The Air America host is this election season's breakout star.

• The 2008 Student Loan Blues

  Nicholas von Hoffman : Higher Education

  Some 200,000 college students won't qualify for loans in September, and millions more will pay higher interest rates. Since Obama counts on the youth vote to be elected, can they count on him to help them out?

• The End of Bubba Dominance

  Chris Bowers : Presidential Election 2008

  No matter who wins in November, demographic trends indicate that the era of backlash politics is over.

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  What Makes Denver Different: A DNC Preview

  VideoNation : Convention 08

  The Nation's Ari Melber explains why Obama's candidacy and this year's Democratic convention will likely be political game changers.

• Six Questions About Anthrax

  Tom Engelhardt : Government

  And here's the answer: Bush's Global War on Terror operates on a double standard.

• Obama and the Politics of 'Presumptuousness'

  Eric Alterman : Journalists & Journalism

  Dana Milbank's coverage of Obama in the Washington Post has become a symbol of a press corps that is almost as morally and intellectually corrupt as the Bush Administration.

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  Change We Can Believe In

  : Presidential Election 2008

  Progressive supporters of Barack Obama urge him to stand firm on the principles he so compellingly articulated in the primary. Add your name to this open letter.

• For a New Economics

  The Editors : Economic Policy

  The tepid platform Democrats will adopt in Denver isn't a new social contract, but it does go places Republicans never will. Let's hope Obama does better.

• Tested, Tried, Untrue

  Patricia J. Williams : Barack Obama

  Critiques of Barack Obama's suitability for the office of the presidency have been bookended by astonishingly contradictory stereotypes.

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  Ceasefire and Chaos in Georgia

  Margarita Akhvlediani : Russia

  Once geopolitical lines are redrawn, the question must be answered: who started this war?

• The Party Crashers

  Michael Gould-Wartofsky : Activism & Organizing

  Thousands of youth activists will hit the streets to protest the Democratic and Republican conventions, some promising to "Recreate '68." But can they create democracy from outside?

• The Defunding of the Peace Movement

  Tom Hayden : Peace Activism

  As things stand today, if millions are to be spent on an anti-Iraq, anti-McCain message, it will have to come through the Obama campaign or not at all.

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  Obama and King

  Adele Oltman : Religion

  As Obama accepts his party's presidential nomination on the forty-fifth anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, a historian looks beyond the obvious analogies.

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