<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The New Republic TOC]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics</link><description><![CDATA[]]></description><language>en-ca</language><copyright>(c) CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc.</copyright><managingEditor></managingEditor><lastBuildDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:55:35 GMT</lastBuildDate><category></category><generator></generator><item><title><![CDATA[Two Presidents at a Time--Why The Economy Can't Wait Until January 20.]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=e5abdb1f-bab8-4835-88d2-ed0084fdb09a</link><author>The Editors</author><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On November 15, President Bush will host a 'Summit on Financial
Markets and the World Economy' at the National Building Museum in
Washington, D. C. Great Britain's Gordon Brown, China's Hu Jintao,
and Russia's Dmitri Medvedev are among the 20 heads of state who
will attend what's being billed as 'Bretton Woods II.' But there's
one world leader, a soon-to-be head of state, who will be sitting
out the proceedings: Barack Obama plans to spend the weekend in
Chicago.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-21:story.html?id=e5abdb1f-bab8-4835-88d2-ed0084fdb09a&amp;k=51421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somalia May Present Barack Obama's First International Crisis. Here's How He Should Handle It.]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=5bcbcb66-eed9-4d4c-84c4-08fbf19994a1</link><author>Jonathan Stevenson</author><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Somalia, a genuine failed state, ranks alongside Sudan as the world's
most conspicuous candidate for American attention in the early days of Barack Obama's administration.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-21:story.html?id=5bcbcb66-eed9-4d4c-84c4-08fbf19994a1&amp;k=58574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Appointing Napolitano To Homeland Security Will Screw Arizona Democrats]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/20/why-arizona-dems-don-t-want-napolitano-as-dhs.aspx</link><author>Seyward Darby</author><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Arizona governor Janet Napolitano looks likely to be secretary of Homeland Security (thank you, leaky transition team). Though many are applauding her candidacy, her pending appointment is raising anxiety among Arizona Democrats. 'It's a dreadful step,' Democrat Phil Lopes, minority leader in the state house, told TNR today.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-21:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/20/why-arizona-dems-don-t-want-napolitano-as-dhs.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If You're Not Already A Fan, The 'Twilight' Movie Won't Suck You In]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=e817bbe9-c29b-437e-97fb-c187c6c5fd4f</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) is the new kid in town. (To anyone out there mentally cuing up the Eagles: Please stop.) When her mom (Sarah Clarke) decided to uproot from Phoenix and hit the road with her dorky, minor-league ballplayer new husband, Bella did the only sensible thing and opted to move to the tiny hamlet of Forks, Washington, to live with her dad (Billy Burke), the local police chief.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-21:story.html?id=e817bbe9-c29b-437e-97fb-c187c6c5fd4f&amp;k=60551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Should Obama Use His Millions Of Online Supporters?]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=62ec9a0e-7d06-4ffa-bdd4-2d9efa2732b0</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--While the nation's capital obsesses over who will be the next pick for Barack Obama's Cabinet, the president-elect's lieutenants are engaged with what may be a more important long-term issue: What will become of Obama's vast grass-roots network?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-21:story.html?id=62ec9a0e-7d06-4ffa-bdd4-2d9efa2732b0&amp;k=78239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TNRtv: The Top 5 Reasons We Already Know Obama Is Serious About Health Care Reform]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/20/tnrtv-top-5-reasons-we-know-obama-is-serious-about-health-care-reform.aspx</link><author>Jonathan Cohn</author><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[TNR senior editor Jonathan Cohn channels David Letterman to give us the top five indications that Obama and the Democrats are serious about health care reform.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-21:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/20/tnrtv-top-5-reasons-we-know-obama-is-serious-about-health-care-reform.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Argentina's Ruling Couple Are To Blame For The Country's Current Economic Crisis]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=0fa49862-6bbb-44ec-8021-664231db7186</link><author>Pierpaolo Barbieri</author><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Less than two months ago, key members of Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's cabinet <a style="" href="http://www.perfil.com/contenidos/2008/10/09/noticia_0045.html">boasted</a>
that the global financial crisis would not affect Argentina. At the
Waldorf Astoria in New York on September 25, the president herself <a style="" href="http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-112288-2008-09-26.html">reacted bitterly</a> to an American executive who asked about her plans to cope with the looming downturn: "It is <i style="">you</i> [the US and Europe] who need a Plan B."]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-21:story.html?id=0fa49862-6bbb-44ec-8021-664231db7186&amp;k=82193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obama's Secret Plan To Muzzle Talk Radio. Very, VERY Secret.]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=68d07041-7dbc-451d-a18a-752567145610</link><author>Marin Cogan</author><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, and other friends have spent the past year
screaming about the horrors of Barack Obama. And, while it's true
that they talked ad nauseam about socialism and the Weathermen and
Jeremiah Wright, careful listeners would have noticed a recurring
theme of anxiety: that Obama was going to use the newly acquired
levers of government to destroy them.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-20:story.html?id=68d07041-7dbc-451d-a18a-752567145610&amp;k=57255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep TARP Alive! How Obama Can Save The Bailout That Bush Bungled.]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=23c379b6-2cee-4ef1-b476-c5c022ef9a81</link><author>Clay Risen</author><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If nothing else, the Treasury's $700 billion bailout has been a boon
for unintentional black comedy.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-20:story.html?id=23c379b6-2cee-4ef1-b476-c5c022ef9a81&amp;k=75114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality Check: Has ANY Country Had Luck Cutting Emissions?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/environmentandenergy/archive/2008/11/19/has-any-country-had-luck-cutting-emissions.aspx</link><author>Bradford Plumer</author><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Next month, international talks for a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol will kick off in Poland. But whatever happened with the last treaty? First, the good news: According to new U.N. data, the world is on pace to meet its Kyoto targets—right now, the 39 signatory states have reduced their greenhouse-gas emissions, on average, about 17 percent below 1990 levels.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-20:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/environmentandenergy/archive/2008/11/19/has-any-country-had-luck-cutting-emissions.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TNRtv: What Does Boehner's Leadership Mean For The Future Of The GOP?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/19/tnrtv-fairbanks-on-why-house-gop-needs-boehner.aspx</link><author>Eve Fairbanks</author><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[TNR associate editor Eve Fairbanks dishes on what Boehner's leadership means for conservatism, and how more traditional conservatives like Cantor and Hensarling wouldn't be able to take the party in 'remotely a winning direction.']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-20:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/19/tnrtv-fairbanks-on-why-house-gop-needs-boehner.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Tom Daschle Is The Perfect Choice To Lead Obama's Health Care Crusade]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/19/daschle-at-hhs-good-news-for-health-reform.aspx</link><author>Jonathan Cohn</author><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[So much health care news, so little time to blog. But let me weigh in on the news, via, CNN, that Tom Daschle will be Secretary of Health and Human Services. He will also serve as the White House point person on health care reform.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-20:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/19/daschle-at-hhs-good-news-for-health-reform.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotas, Dueling Interest Groups, Poisonous Gender Politics … Oh My God, It's 1993 Again!]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=b65f16fe-f8a3-4b8c-a6f3-0b01fd71b9e3</link><author>Jonathan Chait</author><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I wrote a column about identity politics and Democratic presidencies. My argument was that the focus on social issues in general and identity politics in particular derailed the first two years of the Clinton presidency, and the return of identity-politics mau-mauing represents a threat to Obama's presidency.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-19:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=b65f16fe-f8a3-4b8c-a6f3-0b01fd71b9e3</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every Economist Agrees On Our Fatal Flaw--Yet No Politician Will Mention It.]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=16872fed-798c-476b-a6c4-303923cd6388</link><author>John B. Judis</author><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For those Americans who are not daily readers of the Financial
Times, the past few months have been a crash course in the abstract
and obscure instruments and arrangements that have derailed the
nation's economy. From mortgage-backed securities to credit default
swaps, the financial health of the country has undergone a gory
public dissection. And yet, as Barack Obama prepares to take
office, one particularly frightening problem has escaped public
notice.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-19:story.html?id=16872fed-798c-476b-a6c4-303923cd6388&amp;k=17257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A (Quasi) Appreciation Of John Boehner: The Amazing Teflon Minority Leader]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/11/19/john-boehner-cleverest-republican-in-washington.aspx</link><author>Eve Fairbanks</author><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The House Republican leadership elections are today, and GOPers will almost certainly reselect John Boehner, their eternally tan, chain-smoking, long-suffering caporegime, as their leader - and not only that, but they'll also probably approve Boehner's entire hand-picked roster of candidates for the caucus's other leadership positions.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-19:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/11/19/john-boehner-cleverest-republican-in-washington.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Can Hillary Do With Her $8 Million Campaign Debt If She Becomes Secretary Of State?]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=8031bb37-5f48-4834-b76c-501782839f81</link><author>Amanda Silverman</author><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With Hillary Clinton likely to be appointed as Secretary of State in the coming days, what happens to the $22 million in debt she accrued during her run for president? One of her best options for whittling down the debt was rolling it over to her 2012 Senate reelection campaign--and option that would seem to be off the table if she accepts the cabinet post.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-19:story.html?id=8031bb37-5f48-4834-b76c-501782839f81&amp;k=61909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Country Music Lost The Election--And Why That May Be The Best Thing To Happen To The Genre In Years]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=e7095c8e-d0f1-4bbf-a697-aaeb63479021</link><author>David Browne</author><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Admittedly, it's difficult to fire up a crowd before a concession
speech. Yet on an Arizona stage on election night, there stood Hank
Williams Jr. and Big and Rich's John Rich, alone with their guitars
and trying, in vain, to rouse John McCain's admirers shortly before
McCain officially threw in the towel.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-19:story.html?id=e7095c8e-d0f1-4bbf-a697-aaeb63479021&amp;k=33101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Kinder, Gentler Bankruptcy For GM?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/18/a-kindler-gentler-bankruptcy-for-gm.aspx</link><author>Jonathan Cohn</author><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As a number of analysts have noted, the biggest reason a General Motors bankruptcy is so frightening is that it might not work out like the airline bankruptcies have. Remember, if General Motors were trying to reorganize itself under bankruptcy, it would have to come up with cash in order to buy parts. Thanks to the problems on Wall Street, that could be extremely difficult. That means GM could end up filing for bankruptcy under Chapter 7, rather than Chapter 11, and going through liquidation.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-19:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/18/a-kindler-gentler-bankruptcy-for-gm.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Congo's War, There Are No Angels]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=3c99ea1d-84b9-467a-8d64-53e858738c76</link><author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--When both sides have a point in a war, you know you are in deep trouble--in deciding whom to help, whom to blame, or whom to
punish. That's the case in Congo, where the Rwanda-backed rebel force
led by Laurent Nkunda is fighting a combination of government troops
and the exiled Rwandan Hutu militia known by its acronym FDLR.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-19:story.html?id=3c99ea1d-84b9-467a-8d64-53e858738c76&amp;k=366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barack Won A Mandate: Here's why you shouldn't let anyone tell you differently.]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=003f5516-1670-47de-bab6-4eb78dfd904c</link><author>Jonathan Chait</author><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The funny thing about elections is that their meaning undergoes a
metamorphosis the very instant they occur. A couple weeks before the
vote, a Republican member of Congress declared at a McCain rally,
'This campaign in the next couple of weeks is about one thing. It's
a referendum on socialism.' If you said now that the election was a
referendum on socialism, or even mere liberalism, you'd be taken
for a left-wing maniac.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-18:story.html?id=003f5516-1670-47de-bab6-4eb78dfd904c&amp;k=25425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How The Global Economic Crisis Could Bring Down The Chinese Government]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=8beb6bb5-123c-4d73-9a49-2aa1e82922a8</link><author>Joshua Kurlantzick</author><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[How The Global Economic Crisis Could Bring Down The Chinese Government]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-18:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=8beb6bb5-123c-4d73-9a49-2aa1e82922a8</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Will The Republican Party Look Like After Several Years Of Obama?]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=21575473-d987-4d5c-a92a-db6644c5de39</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- There is a second transition under way over which
President-elect Barack Obama has no control--the transition of
conservatives to minority status. How they do this will have a powerful impact on the new presidency.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-18:story.html?id=21575473-d987-4d5c-a92a-db6644c5de39&amp;k=15103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bold And Green: Inside The Next Senate's Energy Priorities]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/environmentandenergy/archive/2008/11/17/bingaman-lays-out-the-senate-s-energy-priorities.aspx</link><author>Bradford Plumer</author><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Next year, new Congress: Who will be the major players crafting energy policy? Well, there's Barack Obama—him you know. There's Barbara Boxer, who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works committee and will likely get first crack at any climate bill.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-18:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/environmentandenergy/archive/2008/11/17/bingaman-lays-out-the-senate-s-energy-priorities.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton For Secretary Of State? Please No!]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_spine/archive/2008/11/17/henry-kissinger-is-for-her-i-m-not-are-you.aspx</link><author>Martin Peretz</author><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I confess: Hillary Clinton has never appealed to me.  There have been so many Hillary Clintons that I suspect that none was authentic.  In any case, the young Hillary was a fashionable leftie.  No, she wasn't Bill Ayers.  But her Wellesley commencement address was especially trite when trite was the rule.  She worked for a communist law firm.  She was faddish when independent thinking was what the country needed.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-18:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_spine/archive/2008/11/17/henry-kissinger-is-for-her-i-m-not-are-you.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Drama No More: How President Obama Will Handle His People.]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=a19765ec-8789-48a3-8e36-edfa1b2087c6</link><author>Noam Scheiber</author><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The morning after the presidential election, a group of top Obama
staffers and consultants gathered for brunch at a restaurant a few
blocks from their Chicago headquarters. The mood was understandably
emotional, and, before long, chief strategist David Axelrod rose to
offer a valedictory.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-17:story.html?id=a19765ec-8789-48a3-8e36-edfa1b2087c6&amp;k=31536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's Call John Kerry's Loss In 2004 What It Is: The Luckiest Thing To Happen To Democrats In 40 Years]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=9d38cb54-d689-418e-ae28-0ab4f1639d5a</link><author>David W. Rohde</author><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[After the 2004 presidential election Democrats were crushed. Four more years of George W. Bush seemed unthinkable, disastrous. But now that the Obama era is beginning, Democrats should view John Kerry’s defeat as something else entirely: the luckiest break the party has caught since at least the 1964 election, which yielded the presidency of Lyndon Johnson and two-thirds Democratic congressional majorities.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-17:story.html?id=9d38cb54-d689-418e-ae28-0ab4f1639d5a&amp;k=99583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Al Gore Just Updated His Prescription For Fighting Climate Change. Time For Other Greens To Follow His Lead.]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=971eed4b-1dc8-4afd-a8fe-193c373286ac</link><author>Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus</author><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In a New York Times published on the first Sunday after Barack Obama's presidential election, Nobel prize winner Al Gore shifted from his longstanding focus on regulating carbon pollution to advocating direct government investments in clean energy as the best way to deal with climate change. Gore is the country's most prominent spokesperson on climate change and a shift in his thinking in reaction to new economic and political circumstances is highly significant.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-17:story.html?id=971eed4b-1dc8-4afd-a8fe-193c373286ac&amp;k=870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Restless Life Of Thornton Wilder]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=bc27617c-32b3-438f-8e4c-799c53af1b68</link><author>Christopher Benfey</author><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It is fortunate for literary historians that Thornton Wilder and Edmund Wilson did not meet at the Princeton-Yale football game or, heaven forbid, in Edna St. Vincent Millay's bedroom. They were brought together instead at one of Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald's weekend debauches at their rented estate of Ellerslie, outside Wilmington, Delaware, in the winter of 1928. Wilson had heard that the Fitzgeralds' latest parties were "on a more elaborate scale than their old weekends at Westport or Great Neck," an impression confirmed by the invitation. "All is prepared for February 25th," Fitzgerald wrote Wilson. "The stomach pumps are polished and set out in rows, stale old enthusiasms are being burnished.... Pray gravity to move your bowels. It's little we get done for us in this world. Answer. Scott."]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-17:story.html?id=bc27617c-32b3-438f-8e4c-799c53af1b68&amp;k=80646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barack, Please Don't Let Identity Politics Sink Your Early Presidency The Way It Sunk Bill Clinton's]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=3ccabb3f-58ac-4496-ad94-9a92e25d1c3b</link><author>Jonathan Chait</author><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ever since Election Night, the specter of 1994 has loomed over the Democratic Party. Would the Democrats 'overreach'? Would this bright new dawn of liberalism come crashing down as rapidly as the last one had?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-15:story.html?id=3ccabb3f-58ac-4496-ad94-9a92e25d1c3b&amp;k=23604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Case For Letting Joe Lieberman Keep His Committee Chairmanship]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=5daa4a35-afd6-4474-9a83-a1dec2525c82</link><author>James Kirchick</author><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, Democratic Senators will decide the political fate of Joe Lieberman. For the past several years, Lieberman has been a persistent thorn in their side--a relentless critic of Democratic attempts to end the war in Iraq and a no-less-vocal advocate of President Bush’s surge strategy. Relations have grown considerably worse since he endorsed John McCain for President last December
and delivered a speech at the Republican National Convention this fall.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-15:story.html?id=5daa4a35-afd6-4474-9a83-a1dec2525c82&amp;k=92924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven Questions I Want Answered About The Hillary As Secretary Of State Rumor]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/11/14/hillary-at-state.aspx</link><author>Michael Crowley</author><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Some questions about the speculation du jour:  --Would Obama really welcome the drama having Clinton in his cabinet would inevitably entail?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-15:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/11/14/hillary-at-state.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are Obama-Haters Racists? Or Just Anti-Democrat Partisans?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/14/the-color-of-rage.aspx</link><author>Michelle Cottle</author><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[An old friend of mine who lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, emailed the other day to say how disheartened she was, as an Obama supporter, by the wave of anti-Obama vitriol she had been hearing on radio call-in shows and in conversations around town since the election. She was particularly disturbed by the racist edge to the ranting--much of it prefaced by the classic phrase, 'I'm not a racist, but...']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-15:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/14/the-color-of-rage.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greenland's Great Melt: Making The Best Out Of Global Warming]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/environmentandenergy/archive/2008/11/14/letter-from-greenland-europe-s-last-colony-and-the-big-melt.aspx</link><author>Alexander Zaitchik</author><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It's become a cliché of Arctic reportage to begin stories by describing the calving of glaciers—that process by which enormous vertical slabs of ice, some as tall as skyscrapers, slice off the glacial shelf and collapse into the waiting sea. During a recent reporting trip to Greenland, I quickly understood the impulse to chronicle this phenomenon.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-15:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/environmentandenergy/archive/2008/11/14/letter-from-greenland-europe-s-last-colony-and-the-big-melt.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep The Cars Running: Yes, Barack, Rescue The Auto Industry]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=a4893b49-36df-4784-9859-2dfa3a3211bf</link><author>Jonathan Cohn</author><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[General Motors has come to Washington, begging for a $25 billion bailout to keep it and its ailing Detroit counterparts going next year. But nobody seems too thrilled about the prospect. Liberals dwell on the companies' gas-guzzling sport-utility vehicles. Conservatives obsess over all the well-paid union members with gold-plated benefits. And people of all ideological backgrounds remember how they used to buy domestic cars, years ago, but stopped because the cars were so damn lousy. "The downfall of the American auto industry is indeed a tragedy," the Washington Post editorial board sermonized recently, "but the automakers and the United Auto Workers have only themselves to blame for much of it." And, if they have only themselves to blame, the argument goes, why do they deserve taxpayer help? Let them fail and file for bankruptcy. In the long run, the economy will be stronger and the workers better off. It'd be worth?the short-term pain, which might not even be so severe.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-14:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=a4893b49-36df-4784-9859-2dfa3a3211bf</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collapsed Bridges! Exploding Pipes! Flooded Levees! How Obama Can Reinvent The Way Our Government Invests In Vital Infrastructure.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=5938a6c1-3dab-4ca2-a073-4c2e6c01dfad</link><author>Robert Puentes</author><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The list of infrastructure crises over the last three years reads like an almost biblical catalog of calamity: The I-35W bridge falling into the Mississippi River during rush-hour traffic in Minneapolis; a steam pipe explosion in mid-town Manhattan; and, of course, the drowning of New Orleans. These disasters have inspired a national what I call "infrastructure epiphany" about the need to reinvest. The economic stimulus package being cobbled together on Capitol Hill, which includes a whopping $19 billion for highways and transit, provides the perfect opportunity to do so.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-14:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=5938a6c1-3dab-4ca2-a073-4c2e6c01dfad</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Syria Won't Stop Harboring Terrorists, No Matter How Hard We Try]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=42ccbe4d-41b0-4243-9a86-6af1febaba5a</link><author>Lee Smith</author><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Bush administration has quietly authorized U.S. forces to attack
Al-Qaeda bases around the Middle East--an escalation in the war on
terror that Eli Lake first <a style="" href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=9c613d05-0441-4a14-bf40-ef3ac16a42b5">revealed</a> two weeks ago in <i style="">The New Republic</i> and that <i style="">The New York Times</i> <a style="" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/washington/10military.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss&amp;oref=slogin">reported</a> on this week. One of the administration’s most recent targets was Syria, where it <a style="" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7695913.stm">struck</a> Al-Qaeda leader Badran Turki Hishan al Mazidih last month.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-14:story.html?id=42ccbe4d-41b0-4243-9a86-6af1febaba5a&amp;k=40835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terrible Title, Pretty Good Bond--'Quantum of Solace' Is No 'Casino Royale,' But Daniel Craig Delivers Again]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=8914e3c4-d511-4a41-8aad-d7c6c354e095</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When the 16th James Bond film, Licence to Kill, was released in 1989, it was widely reported that its working title, Licence Revoked, had been altered thanks to a survey revealing that fewer than 50 percent of Americans knew the meaning of the word "revoked." How far we have come since then. Bond's last outing, Casino Royale, was not only his best in over three decades, it was also his smartest, and its franchise-record grosses evidently persuaded 007's custodians that we Yanks aren't quite such a load of morons after all. How else to explain Quantum of Solace, the year's most obscurely titled release not directed by Charlie Kaufman?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-14:story.html?id=8914e3c4-d511-4a41-8aad-d7c6c354e095&amp;k=20791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honey, The Country's Late: Why Obama Needs To Address Abortion Early In His Presidency]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=dbe31c3d-af92-45df-aae4-6f9638552a43</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--Of course, President-elect Barack Obama's most urgent task is to repair an ailing economy. But one of his most important promises was to end the cultural and religious wars that have disfigured politics for four decades.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-14:story.html?id=dbe31c3d-af92-45df-aae4-6f9638552a43&amp;k=49635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should the Obama Kids Go to Public School?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/13/should-the-obama-kids-go-to-public-school.aspx</link><author>Jason Zengerle</author><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Today's NYT has a thorough story about Michelle Rhee and her efforts to reform D.C.'s supremely screwed up public school system--efforts that, since they involve abolishing tenure, are being fought tooth and nail by the teacher's union.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-14:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/13/should-the-obama-kids-go-to-public-school.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A French Movie Siren Teaches Us About Man’s Hunger For The Truth]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=885b2972-0b59-4a34-8d42-8c3f6995d378</link><author>Stanley Kauffmann</author><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[One Day You'll Understand -- Kino International]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-14:story.html?id=885b2972-0b59-4a34-8d42-8c3f6995d378&amp;k=95929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Joys Of Partisanship]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=a95d87ec-a365-4250-91fc-d0f105d6961c</link><author>Paul Starr</author><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['On the Side of the Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-13:story.html?id=a95d87ec-a365-4250-91fc-d0f105d6961c&amp;k=27490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inevitable Disappointment Watch: Guantanamo Bay Won't Close Any Time Soon]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=0ff27be1-d474-49ca-ab49-a145371c9eb3</link><author>Joseph Landau</author><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Associated Press reported Monday that advisors to President-Elect Barack Obama 'are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials.' This likely signals a major (and welcome) policy shift in the detention and trial of 'enemy combatants' at Guantanamo Bay. But the AP's conclusion that the proposal 'would make good on [Obama's] promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison' is premature. Shutting down Guantanamo won't be so easy.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-13:story.html?id=0ff27be1-d474-49ca-ab49-a145371c9eb3&amp;k=10010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Really Drew Russia And Georgia Into Conflict This Summer?]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=abdb2404-4efb-4bd4-a615-a704b1a2a7c0</link><author>James P. Rubin</author><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Why did Russia really invade Georgia? In late September, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov appeared before the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and offered a rather stunning explanation.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-13:story.html?id=abdb2404-4efb-4bd4-a615-a704b1a2a7c0&amp;k=80619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't Buy That Hummer Quite Yet: Low Gas Prices Are Not Here To Stay]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/12/over-a-barrel.aspx</link><author>Clay Risen</author><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[This week anyone with a car is telling the same story: Where were you when you saw regular unleaded at less than 2 dollars a gallon? (New Market, Virginia, in my case.) People are talking about it like they were Noah catching sight of Mt. Ararat--the flood of high prices is over. Except, well, it's not.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-13:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/12/over-a-barrel.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Should Be In Obama's Stimulus Package? Renowned Economist Ben Friedman Has Some Suggestions.]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/12/three-steps-to-address-the-economic-crisis.aspx</link><author></author><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When Barack Obama is inaugurated, one of the first items on his legislative agenda will be an economic recovery package. By all accounts, the current economic crisis is one of the most complicated in American history, and fixing it will be no simple matter. We asked Benjamin Friedman, the William Joseph Maier of Political Economy at Harvard University, for his suggestions on what to include in an economic recovery package.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-13:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/12/three-steps-to-address-the-economic-crisis.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not Just For Tweens And The Elderly, The Scrapbook Is A Modern American Art Form]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=c7672c5f-3300-476e-9b51-5745766fbb75</link><author>Jenna Weissman Joselit</author><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['Scrapbooks: An American History' -- By Jessica Helfand]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-13:story.html?id=c7672c5f-3300-476e-9b51-5745766fbb75&amp;k=20287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Imperial Dick: Has Cheney's thirst for executive power weakened Obama's chance to use it?]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=c562972c-8951-49a0-b4e9-f8045a7e287f</link><author>Sam Tanenhaus</author><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency' -- By Barton Gellman]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-12:story.html?id=c562972c-8951-49a0-b4e9-f8045a7e287f&amp;k=47871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Advice To Democrats: Act Boldly. Act Swiftly. And Stop Worrying About Losing Seats In The Midterm Elections.]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=ce40f94f-0c48-4d8f-a2aa-b61a6a659bb2</link><author>The Editors</author><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Now that Barack Obama has won the presidency, a swath of the Washington establishment is pressing him to answer what it considers an urgent question: How will he scale back his plans--for tax cuts, for health care reform, for education--in response to the economic emergency?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-12:story.html?id=ce40f94f-0c48-4d8f-a2aa-b61a6a659bb2&amp;k=12982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The South Is More Vibrant, Varied, And Relevant To American Politics Than 'The New York Times' Will Have You Believe]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/11/the-mind-of-the-south.aspx</link><author>Clay Risen</author><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Momentarily doffing my business-beat hat, I want to highlight a strange article in the New York Times this morning. 'For South, a Waning Hold on National Politics,' reads the headline, and the gist of the piece is that Southern voters, by backing McCain this election, have proven that their backward ways are increasingly irrelevant to the American scene.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-12:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/11/the-mind-of-the-south.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy In Mumbai: Why 'Slumdog Millionaire' Is One Of The Best Films Of The Year]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=8f4a68c0-888d-4548-b398-c628af7d1765</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle's captivating new film, is structured as a riddle: How is it that 18-year-old Jamal (Dev Patel), a penniless orphan--i.e., "slumdog"--from the streets of Mumbai, could answer trivia question after trivia question correctly on the Indian version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" en route to a shot at the 20 million rupee jackpot? Is he a genius? Is he cheating?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-12:http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=8f4a68c0-888d-4548-b398-c628af7d1765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Being Hispanic Means In The Age Of Obama]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=8abf4773-17af-47d8-835a-72e4f07ff31d</link><author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Because of the debate over immigration reform, the word
'Hispanic' became a stigma in the eyes of many Americans over the last two years. How ironic then that 10 million Hispanic voters played such a crucial role in last week's presidential election.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-12:story.html?id=8abf4773-17af-47d8-835a-72e4f07ff31d&amp;k=78676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TNRtv: Why Is The Republican Party Incapable Of Learning From It's Own Mistakes?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/11/tnrtv-chait-and-foer-on-republican-recriminations.aspx</link><author>Jonathan Chait and Franklin Foer</author><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[TNR editor Frank Foer and senior editor Jonathan Chait discuss the latest 'TRB From Washington' column. Why is the Republican Party incapable of diagnosing its electoral flaws? Are members of the GOP too close to George W. Bush? How should the party adapt to regain influence?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-12:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/11/tnrtv-chait-and-foer-on-republican-recriminations.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From The Dept. Of Reckless Lies: How Beijing Is Cooking The Books On Its Pollution Numbers]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/environmentandenergy/archive/2008/11/11/is-beijing-fudging-its-pollution-numbers.aspx</link><author>Alex Pasternack</author><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[During the Beijing Olympic Games in August, fears of choking pollution were quickly forgotten thanks to a bevy of anti-smog measures and good (partially man-made) weather. According to the government, all but one of the days in August were 'Blue Sky' days—Beijing's term for a day with only 'moderate pollution,' when the Air Pollution Index hits 100 or below.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-12:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/environmentandenergy/archive/2008/11/11/is-beijing-fudging-its-pollution-numbers.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Democrats' Secret Health Care Plan]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=d818fb23-9df8-4be5-8742-25e3f5ec6e09</link><author>Jonathan Cohn</author><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If you believe what the pundits are saying, enacting universal
health insurance in the next year won't be difficult: It will be
impossible. As the argument goes, it would cost too much money,
antagonize too many interest groups, and--given the difficulty of
finding 60 votes in the Senate--require too much raw political
muscle.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-11:story.html?id=d818fb23-9df8-4be5-8742-25e3f5ec6e09&amp;k=65518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time's Up For The Minutemen: Bidding Adios To The Anti-Immigrant Sensation]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=759b5f2b-920d-4ca5-ad97-b922c60266f1</link><author>Zvika Krieger</author><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the Minuteman Project, lives in a
one-story home in a gated community in Orange County. On a late
August afternoon, the 59- year-old former accountant invited me
into his backyard, which is strewn with potted plants,
blue-and-white pinwheels, and a ladybug wind chime. 'There are some
Pakistani immigrants that live over there,' he says, pointing over
his fence, 'and a nice Japanese family, and a Taiwanese family that
lives around the corner. It's a great neighborhood.']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-11:story.html?id=759b5f2b-920d-4ca5-ad97-b922c60266f1&amp;k=80194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ROUND THREE Of The Gay Marriage Debate: When Should Judges Get Out Of The Way And Let The Political Process Take Over?]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=32b859b1-6357-4107-8ec2-1819434dda1f</link><author>Richard Just and Jeffrey Rosen</author><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Dear Richard, Many thanks for your thoughtful response.
But just to be clear: I'm not arguing that judges should crudely follow the polls, or that courts are supposed to do nothing more than predict and ratify public opinion.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-11:story.html?id=32b859b1-6357-4107-8ec2-1819434dda1f&amp;k=52918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Barack: Don't Send A Special Envoy To The Middle East. And Definitely Don't Send Bill Clinton.]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_spine/archive/2008/11/10/what-about-a-seme.aspx</link><author>Martin Peretz</author><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It was Thursday, barely 36 hours since Barack Obama was recognized to have won the American presidency, that some editorialist at the London Financial Times sat down to do his Friday leader. It was the paper's first instructions to Obama. The previous day's commentary was a cliche: a reminder, as if neither he nor his party grasped the truism, that Obama needed to be president of the 'whole country.']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-11:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_spine/archive/2008/11/10/what-about-a-seme.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Case Against Including The Auto Industry In Obama's Bailout Plan]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/10/wheelin-and-dealin.aspx</link><author>Clay Risen</author><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As Obama has made clear, bailing out the auto industry is a key priority in his economic recovery agenda. There's already $25 billion in low-cost loans approved for Detroit, but that money is tagged specifically to help the industry retool to meet higher fuel-efficiency standards. So Democrats have been pushing the White House to tap the 700 billion bailout package for more.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-11:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/10/wheelin-and-dealin.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Lessons Can We Take From Marcus Garvey Now?]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=eedbe68c-59a6-473f-aa54-9414807799ef</link><author>Steven Hahn</author><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-11:story.html?id=eedbe68c-59a6-473f-aa54-9414807799ef&amp;k=33067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Jihadists, Islamists, And Other America-Haters Are Saying About The Obama Victory]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=052471ea-fb53-471d-b6f3-a7cfa30552b6</link><author>Eli Lake</author><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The election of Barack Obama has filled the cable networks with images of Kenyans dancing in the street and Australians breaking down into tears of joy. But there's one group of foreigners whose reactions haven't received much attention: the ones that seek our destruction.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-11:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=052471ea-fb53-471d-b6f3-a7cfa30552b6</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Shadow President: How John Podesta Invented The Obama Administration.]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=5f280d6a-3964-44c8-81d6-9b7df51f667b</link><author>Michael Crowley</author><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The bright young think tank staffers at the progressive Center for American Progress (CAP) admire their boss, John Podesta. Podesta, who is also co-managing Barack Obama's presidential transition team, possesses energy (he is a workaholic and marathon runner), colorful quirks (a UFO buff, he has pressed for more government disclosure about reported alien sightings), and an unabashed willingness to dance himself into a sweaty frenzy at a party filled with people half his age (59). But the staffers also fear his darker side.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-10:story.html?id=5f280d6a-3964-44c8-81d6-9b7df51f667b&amp;k=22125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barack Obama Should Model His Presidency After ... George W. Bush?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/09/what-obama-could-learn-from-bush.aspx</link><author>Jonathan Cohn</author><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[You hear lots of talk about which former president Barack Obama should use as a model. Bill Clinton comes up regularly. Franklin Roosevelt, too. But what about the guy in the White House now?

I know, President Bush’s approval ratings are hovering around 30 percent. This election was in many ways a referendum on his tenure and the verdict could not have been more unambiguous. The voters didn't like it. “Saturday Night Live” got an entire skit (and a pretty funny one) out of John McCain trying to escape the stigma of he failure.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-10:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/09/what-obama-could-learn-from-bush.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Role Will Al Gore Play Under President Obama?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/environmentandenergy/archive/2008/11/09/gore-ups-the-pressure.aspx</link><author>Bradford Plumer</author><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In The New York Times today, Al Gore lays out his plan to have the United States get '100 percent of [its] electricity from carbon-free sources within 10 years'—a much more ambitious goal than anyone else has proposed to date.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-10:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/environmentandenergy/archive/2008/11/09/gore-ups-the-pressure.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allen Grossman's Poetry Provides Eternal Answers Without Ever Offering The Question]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=316e86cd-809c-4996-8d51-19a032449bef</link><author>Alexander Nemser</author><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['Descartes' Loneliness' -- By Allen Grossman]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-10:story.html?id=316e86cd-809c-4996-8d51-19a032449bef&amp;k=4550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TRB: Slow Learners--What Part Of 'Overwhelming Electoral Defeat' Does The GOP Not Understand?]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=528a7933-043d-4c3d-8dc1-4ed644d975f4</link><author>Jonathan Chait</author><pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A year and a half ago, around the time thoughtful conservatives started to realize that George W. Bush might not in fact be a combination of Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, 'National Review' editor Rich Lowry wrote a cover story pinpointing the source of the president's failings...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-08:story.html?id=528a7933-043d-4c3d-8dc1-4ed644d975f4&amp;k=33896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Defense Of Summers: Don't Rule Out A Brilliant Policymaker Because Of Two Ham-Fisted Comments]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/11/07/in-defense-of-larry-summers.aspx</link><author>Noam Scheiber</author><pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[So, as promised, I wanted to make a few quick points in defense of Summers...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-08:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/11/07/in-defense-of-larry-summers.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Synecdoche, New York' Is A Dreamy, Thrillingly Ambitious Shot To The Brain]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=0f279ffe-3445-4814-8bc8-fee6ebf4945f</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['Regardless of how this whole thing works out, I will be dying, and so will you, and so will everyone else here. And that's what I'd like to explore.' These are the opening instructions that theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) offers a newly assembled cast in Charlie Kaufman's film 'Synecdoche, New York'. But they might just as easily serve as a warning to prospective moviegoers.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-08:story.html?id=0f279ffe-3445-4814-8bc8-fee6ebf4945f&amp;k=72641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is A 52-48 Vote Really Enough To Prove That The Courts Overstepped On Gay Marriage?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=485a245e-84b3-4534-99e3-2bcfe63952d7</link><author>Richard Just and Jeffrey Rosen</author><pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[You and I both believe in gay marriage; our disagreement is about means, not ends. Moreover, while I am devastated about what happened in California on Tuesday, I agree with you that, in the wake of a loss of this magnitude, any movement needs to at least be willing to ask whether its approach has been the right one. Legitimate anger at the ugliness of what has just taken place in California--and I do think ugliness is the right word to describe what 52 percent of California voters did on Tuesday, as well as the right word to describe the cynical campaign of disinformation and raw bigotry that backers of Proposition 8 conducted over the past few months--is no excuse to avoid the fundamental questions we are asking here: Has the gay rights movement screwed up by working through the courts? And have the courts screwed up by reading the right to gay marriage into various state constitutions?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-08:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=485a245e-84b3-4534-99e3-2bcfe63952d7</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On The Huge Expectations That The World Has For Barack Obama]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=1f9fd665-6d31-4882-a34c-ed0683d420bb</link><author>Bernard-Henri Levy</author><pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It is clear that Barack Obama is neither an angel nor a man sent from heaven.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-08:story.html?id=1f9fd665-6d31-4882-a34c-ed0683d420bb&amp;k=35643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The O-List: Thirty People Who Will Rule Obama's Washington]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=7b81d92f-654a-4392-a6ef-fb4bb7880a88</link><author>TNR Staff</author><pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In the spring of 2007, long before Sarah Palin became a feminist icon, before Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers reared their unreconstructed heads, before Hillary Clinton ever questioned his readiness to be president, Barack Obama's greatest nemesis was a 29-year-old paralegal named Joe Anthony.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-07:story.html?id=7b81d92f-654a-4392-a6ef-fb4bb7880a88&amp;k=20467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Washington Diarist: 'Americans Who Were Not Moved By What Happened The Other Night Were In Some Way Un-American']]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=1945c380-a40f-44dd-b8d2-5f95e7017263</link><author>Leon Wieseltier</author><pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The leaves were not all that was changing in Lafayette Park. I had never before seen a patriotic mosh-pit, but I was gladly trapped in one outside the White House in the hours after Barack Obama's inexorable but still unimaginable victory.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-07:story.html?id=1945c380-a40f-44dd-b8d2-5f95e7017263&amp;k=5825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democrats Did Terribly With Religious Voters On Tuesday. But Does The Party Need Them?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=36631201-fcf7-42a2-84f0-1f956bf5459d</link><author>Damon Linker</author><pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Election Day 2008 was a moment of unambiguous triumph for Barack Obama and the Democratic Party. But do Tuesday's results make it a 'pivot' election, as some of have suggested, marking the transition from 28 years of Republican ideological dominion to a new era of liberal supremacy?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-07:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=36631201-fcf7-42a2-84f0-1f956bf5459d</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debating Prop. 8: Why Overeager Judges Don't Help The Cause Of Marriage Equality]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=fcb8bfb9-a829-4d92-84d5-a180a06c118a</link><author>Richard Just and Jeffrey Rosen</author><pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In a major setback for gay marriage advocates, California voters passed Proposition 8 on Tuesday. Over the next couple of days, TNR's managing editor Richard Just and TNR's legal affairs editor Jeffrey Rosen will be debating the appropriate lessons to draw from the defeat. Rosen kicks things off below.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-07:story.html?id=fcb8bfb9-a829-4d92-84d5-a180a06c118a&amp;k=77217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rahm Wasn't Just The Right Choice For Chief Of Staff; He Was The Only One]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/11/06/rahm-was-the-only-choice-not-just-the-right-choice.aspx</link><author>Noam Scheiber</author><pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[abstract TK]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-07:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/11/06/rahm-was-the-only-choice-not-just-the-right-choice.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five Ways In Which Barack Obama's Victory Has Changed The Political Landscape In America]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_spine/archive/2008/11/06/political-consequences-of-an-obama-victory.aspx</link><author>Marty Peretz</author><pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Has anyone noticed that Arkansas fell to John McCain and is one of only three states that went Republican with a higher margin than when George Bush beat John Kerry.  Bush's margin was 10 percent while McCain's was 20 percent. Can this have anything to do with Bill Clinton's widely publicized campaigning in what he, 'the man from Hope' now the man from Manhattan and Chappaqua, must now think of as Dog Patch.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-07:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_spine/archive/2008/11/06/political-consequences-of-an-obama-victory.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should The Secretary of Treasury Be Larry Summers Or … Tim Geitner, Who's The Next Larry Summers.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=c85b418b-5237-4f54-891f-8385243162bd</link><author>Noam Scheiber</author><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In early 2003, Bill McDonough, the longtime president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, announced he was stepping down after ten years at the helm. The New York Fed presidency is one of the most powerful positions in government, rating behind only the Treasury secretary and Fed chairman in influence over the economy. This made the departure of the widely respected McDonough, who had led a rescue of the financial markets in 1998, a mournful event in itself. But, when the two leading candidates to replace him abruptly withdrew, the anxiety in some quarters became palpable.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-06:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=c85b418b-5237-4f54-891f-8385243162bd</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why It Took A Black Presidential Candidate To End Our Four-Decade Culture War]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=0c9fed36-3b39-4f97-92fd-160a5b6a94fb</link><author>Alan Wolfe</author><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There can be no beginning without an ending. Everyone seems to agree that Barack Obama's victory marks a new chapter in American political history. What is not so obvious is that it ends not just one era, but two.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-06:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=0c9fed36-3b39-4f97-92fd-160a5b6a94fb</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Wonderful Political Season, Yes, But Also A Deeply Disappointing One For Women]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/05/regrets-i-have-a-few.aspx</link><author>Katherine Marsh</author><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For anyone who has ever felt--because of race, gender, sexual orientation, or class--like an 'other,' last night was a triumphant night. But as I watched the jubilant crowds in Grant Park, the impromptu celebrations in front of the White House, and the tearful embraces in churches and bars across America, I couldn't help but feel a little sad that this political season has been so disappointing for women.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-06:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/05/regrets-i-have-a-few.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America The Polarized: Why Obama's Resounding Victory Does Not Indicate A Broader Political Realignment]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=68e1a802-539d-4443-9a73-4901ce151188</link><author>Scott Winship</author><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[To say my heart isn't fully in the wet-blanket role at this historic moment is an understatement. I spent last night with throngs of people celebrating in the streets where, 40 years ago, storefronts burned in the wake of the King assassination. And I am filled with hope for the possibilities of the next several years.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-06:story.html?id=68e1a802-539d-4443-9a73-4901ce151188&amp;k=92060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unsolved Electoral Mysteries: Why Did Democrats Have More Down-Ballot Trouble Than Expected?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/11/05/a-much-more-pro-incumbent-night-than-expected.aspx</link><author>Eve Fairbanks</author><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Why did the Democrats -- whose House gain currently stands at 18 seats, with some still uncalled -- somewhat underperform Congress-watchers' expectations of a 25 to 35 seat pickup last night?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-06:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/11/05/a-much-more-pro-incumbent-night-than-expected.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Does 'No-Drama' Obama Want Rahm As Chief Of Staff? And Why Would Rahm Want To Pass Up The Speakership?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/05/o-rahm-ba.aspx</link><author>Jason Zengerle and Michelle Cottle</author><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Despite their very, uh, different personalities, Obama and Emanuel have one big thing in common: David Axelrod. Emanuel is one of Axelrod's closest friends; Axelrod even signed the ketubah at Emanuel's wedding.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-06:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/05/o-rahm-ba.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does Obama's Victory Prove That America Has Become A Liberal County?]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=c261828d-7387-4af8-9ee7-8b2922ea6df0</link><author>John B. Judis</author><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Even before the final results, showing a Democratic sweep, were in, Washington’s pundits were declaring that nothing had really changed politically in the country.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-05:story.html?id=c261828d-7387-4af8-9ee7-8b2922ea6df0&amp;k=70684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scouring The Exits: 'Of The People For Whom Race Mattered, More Wanted To See A Black Man Become President Than Didn't']]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/11/05/it-s-the-economy-stupid-kinda.aspx</link><author>Noam Scheiber</author><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It didn't take long for the GOP to settle on a narrative once the numbers started heading south last night: John McCain was running even or slightly ahead of Obama until the economy cratered in September. If not for the financial crisis, McCain would have stood a pretty good chance of winning.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-05:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/11/05/it-s-the-economy-stupid-kinda.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Ideas On How We Should Start To Process This Monumental Victory]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=23a56401-bbf0-4b6b-ad14-97d7791f640d</link><author>John McWhorter</author><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Bradley Effect. 'God damn America!' 'Kill him!' 'Why can't he close the deal?' 'Isn't he a Muslim?' The 'terrorist fist jab.'  The New Yorker cover. Michelle’s chimerical 'whitey' speech. After all of the aggrieved musings and smug insistences, the deal is done.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-05:story.html?id=23a56401-bbf0-4b6b-ad14-97d7791f640d&amp;k=12002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gala-hopping With Los Angeles Republicans. (Reflecting On The State Of The Party Strongly Discouraged.)]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=51add0a1-c7df-48e6-8248-4daf9dee9a5a</link><author>T.A. Frank</author><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Insight on party decoration, gleaned at 6:30 p.m., 11/4/2008: Abundant balloons, in the absence of abundant human beings, is a real downer. When I arrived at a lobby restaurant in the downtown Los Angeles Marriott, Ohio had just been called for Barack Obama. The crowd of about 20 McCain-Palin supporters had gathered for an election-night party sponsored by an impressively lengthy line-up of Republican organizations in Los Angeles (the Hollywood Congress of Republicans, the Southern California Republican Club, the Korean American Republican Association, the San Fernando Valley Republican Club, and the Republican National Hispanic Assembly), but the event felt rather like a surprise bash for a birthday boy who didn’t show. So the guests glumly nursed drinks, chewed on miniature burgers, and watched Brit Hume. “Based on his associations with people like Khalidi and Ayers,” said Daniel Stroncak, a screenwriter and member of the Hollywood Congress of Republicans, “Obama normally wouldn’t even get the security clearance I had when I was in the military.” And now, Stroncak noted with dismay, Obama was going to command the whole apparatus. “In four years, we’ll make a correction,” he said.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-05:story.html?id=51add0a1-c7df-48e6-8248-4daf9dee9a5a&amp;k=78353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TNRtv: Why Yesterday's Election Results Should Be A Rude Awakening To Anti-Immigration Conservatives]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/05/tnrtv-kirchick-says-gop-must-quot-grow-up-quot-embrace-immigration.aspx</link><author>James Kirchick</author><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[TNR assistant editor James Kirchick argues that today's election numbers should serve as a rude awakening to anti-immigration conservatives: how the issue has damaged the party, and why Republicans need to take a page out of Rove's playbook.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-05:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/05/tnrtv-kirchick-says-gop-must-quot-grow-up-quot-embrace-immigration.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Foreign TV Watch: Mindless Chatter, Leftie Politics, Odes To The 'Primordial Importance of Women' … And Chris Matthews Wasn't Even Around]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=9a579e83-87a0-4e5c-97d6-377f2cb5021a</link><author>Brendan Bernhard</author><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Election Day found me across the Atlantic in France, but like any good American, I was glued to the television. The only difference was the time (six hours in advance of New York) and the faces, voices, and languages on the screen. CNN International, BBC World, Al Jazeera English, and dozens of French stations were at my disposal.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-05:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=9a579e83-87a0-4e5c-97d6-377f2cb5021a</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's Next For John McCain?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/04/mac-is-back.aspx</link><author>Franklin Foer</author><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The concession speech is always the classiest.  (See also Hillary) As a one-time admirer of John McCain, I was grateful to see him at his patriotic, eloquent best tonight. It harkened back to his performance during the first half of the Bush administration, when he was one of the best spokesmen for a progressive agenda in Washington.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-05:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/04/mac-is-back.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What President Obama Owes A Populace That's Scared About Its Future]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=86f5624a-f7e5-40f3-bba4-a8ade028c0c2</link><author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The social coalition put together by Barack Obama signifies a political realignment that may well have replaced the one that started with Richard Nixon, reached its zenith with Ronald Reagan and appears to have expired with George W. Bush. Whether Obama's coalition is long-lasting or ephemeral will depend on how he himself interprets it. The consensus seems to be that Obama's diverse supporters, as Harold Meyerson recently put it in <EM>The Washington Post</EM>, expect their leader to "implement a 21st-century version of Franklin Roosevelt's reforms." I am not so sure.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-05:story.html?id=86f5624a-f7e5-40f3-bba4-a8ade028c0c2&amp;k=67290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday, America Chose To Practice What It Has Long Preached To The Rest Of The World]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=77fe7c39-dc3b-4dbc-b538-87aa501d60cb</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Yes, it is time to hope again.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-05:story.html?id=77fe7c39-dc3b-4dbc-b538-87aa501d60cb&amp;k=96592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Barack I Know: How Obama Schooled Me On Race, And Other Stories From My Year On The Campaign Trail]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/11/04/in-which-i-empty-out-my-obama-notebook.aspx</link><author>Noam Scheiber</author><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:10:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A little over four-and-a-half years ago, I traveled to Illinois to interview Barack Obama for a profile I was working on. It was not long after he'd captured over 50 percent of the vote in his U.S. Senate primary against a multicandidate field. A lot of people in Washington had begun to cluck over this promising black state senator.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-04:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/11/04/in-which-i-empty-out-my-obama-notebook.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten Reasons Why You Should Ignore Exit Polls At All Costs]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/04/why-you-should-ignore-the-exit-polls-at-all-costs.aspx</link><author>Nate Silver</author><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:10:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Why you should ignore the exit polls at all costs. Oh, let me count the ways. Almost all of this, by the way, is lifted from Mark Bluemthnal's outstanding Exit Poll FAQ.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-04:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/04/why-you-should-ignore-the-exit-polls-at-all-costs.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big Trouble's A-Brewing At Polling Stations In Virginia]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/04/trouble-in-the-commonwealth.aspx</link><author>Dave Jamieson</author><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:10:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It appears Virginia's electoral debacle is upon is. The vigilant folks here at Election Protection headquarters are telling us that large numbers of Virginia voters have been turned away from the polls this morning.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-04:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/04/trouble-in-the-commonwealth.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Special Triumphalist Edition! We Haven't Even Seen The Exit Polls, But John B. Judis Has Already Picked Out Obama's Cabinet.]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=5a31ebc5-df10-41a7-9f19-a1201056e156</link><author></author><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If Barack Obama wins the presidency, I don't know who he is going to put in his cabinet, but I have some recommendations for how he should go about choosing people. My assumption is that he will face unprecedented challenges (a downturn, a financial crisis, two wars) and opportunities (a large Democratic majority, discredited opposition in Congress and on K Street).]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-04:story.html?id=5a31ebc5-df10-41a7-9f19-a1201056e156&amp;k=89821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Defense Of Caution: Why President Obama Shouldn't Push For Too Much Too Fast]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=c3c30b1d-68dd-47f1-802a-72b80ba6d9c8</link><author>William Galston</author><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In Defense Of Caution: Why President Obama Shouldn't Push For Too Much Too Fast]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-04:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=c3c30b1d-68dd-47f1-802a-72b80ba6d9c8</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Final Polls Are In, And McCain's Chances Of Victory Settle At ... 1.9 Percent]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/03/today-s-polls-all-signs-point-toward-obama-victory.aspx</link><author>Nate Silver</author><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With fewer than six hours until voting begins in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, the national polling picture has cleared up considerably. Barack Obama is on the verge of a victory, perhaps a decisive victory, in the race for the White House.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-04:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/03/today-s-polls-all-signs-point-toward-obama-victory.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Democratic Party's Sly New Congressional Strategy. PLUS: Meet The New Jim Webb.]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/11/03/a-race-to-watch-amid-the-huge-house-wave.aspx</link><author>Eve Fairbanks</author><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Electoral guru Stu Rothenberg has offered up his final House prediction: Democrats could capture Republican seats numbering 'quite possibly well into the 30s.' The drama here has been overshadowed by the presidential race, but that's just as big a Democratic congressional wave as we saw in 2006, when 31 seats switched.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-04:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/11/03/a-race-to-watch-amid-the-huge-house-wave.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Palin's Policies Won't Help Special-Needs Children]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/03/why-palin-s-policies-won-t-help-special-needs-kids.aspx</link><author>Harold Pollack</author><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Today's New York Times contains a poignant article, 'In Palin, Families of Disabled Children See a Potential White House Friend.' With her infant son's diagnosis of Down Syndrome, Governor Palin has joined a community of caregivers that crosses every social boundary.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-04:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/03/why-palin-s-policies-won-t-help-special-needs-kids.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TNRtv: Isn't It Strange That Both McCain And Obama Want You To Think McCain Is Going To Win?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/03/tnrtv-chait-on-how-obama-s-lead-changed-the-game.aspx</link><author>Jonathan Chait</author><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[TNR senior editor Jonathan Chait breaks down how the resounding victory forecast for Obama has transformed various takes on the contest: an unexpected convergence among GOP and Democratic Party lines, and some reticence from the press.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-04:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/03/tnrtv-chait-on-how-obama-s-lead-changed-the-game.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't Worry, Obama's Got This]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/11/03/don-t-panic-reassurances-from-a-fellow-poll-neurotic.aspx</link><author>Noam Scheiber</author><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If you're the kind of person who obsesses over minor poll movements (and, if you're reading this, you almost certainly are), there's a good chance you noticed the slight tightening yesterday in Pennsylvania and Virginia, as well as the national tracking polls, which Nate covered in his daily write-up. Herewith, a couple reasons I'm not worried:]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-03:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/11/03/don-t-panic-reassurances-from-a-fellow-poll-neurotic.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why McCain's Last Stand Indulges White Voters' Worst Instincts]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/02/mccain-redistribution-and-quot-welfare-quot.aspx</link><author>Jonathan Chait</author><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ross Douthat scratches his head wondering why the McCain campaign is "pinning their hopes on a working-class backlash against the progressive income tax" in Pennsylvania. Ross thinks the answer is incompetence. Maybe he's right, and the McCain campaign is unaware of, say, polls showing that Americans favor Obama's tax hike on the rigch or years of evidence showing that Americans by overwhelming margins believe that wealth should be distributed more evenly.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-03:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/02/mccain-redistribution-and-quot-welfare-quot.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanging Out With Ohio Secretary Of State Jennifer Brunner Before Everything Goes To Hell On Tuesday]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=3cfd96bf-6d25-4bd1-9932-9409895caa8b</link><author>Seyward Darby</author><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Seyward abstract TK]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-03:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=3cfd96bf-6d25-4bd1-9932-9409895caa8b</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Can We Expect From Fox News Over The Next Four Years? I Watched An Insane Amount Of It To Find Out.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=e9c136fc-0453-478d-af7f-57586568c960</link><author>Isaac Chotiner</author><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[abstract link TK]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-03:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=e9c136fc-0453-478d-af7f-57586568c960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[McCain Finally Refines His Tax Argument, And It's Reaching More Voters. Too Bad It's Still Wrong.]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/02/mccain-changes-his-tax-argument-it-s-still-wrong.aspx</link><author>Jonathan Cohn</author><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sometime in the last ten days or so, John McCain distilled his argument about taxes to this line: 'Senator Obama is running to punish the successful. I’m running to make everyone successful.']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-03:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/02/mccain-changes-his-tax-argument-it-s-still-wrong.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Obama, The First Truly 21st Century Figure In American Politics, Has Transformed The Nature Of Campaigns]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=cb3026cb-3555-4cb0-b99b-b883c79784ba</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--A good politician triumphs by adapting to the times and taking advantage of opportunities as they come. A great politician anticipates openings others don't see and creates possibilities that were not there before.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-03:story.html?id=cb3026cb-3555-4cb0-b99b-b883c79784ba&amp;k=47550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should McCain Have Been Expelled From The Senate? The Keating Five Story You've Never Heard.]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=a98690e8-d6b0-44fa-a3f0-c76414c3c9da</link><author>Sahil Mahtani</author><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[One day in early March 1986, John McCain, an Arizona congressman, sat down to write a letter. McCain had heard that a long-time friend and donor, Charles Keating, was upset for being listed as a member of McCain’s campaign finance committee when a more prominent position would seem more appropriate. So McCain apologized. Needlessly it turned out, for "Charlie," as he signed his letter, would reply a few days later:]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-01:story.html?id=a98690e8-d6b0-44fa-a3f0-c76414c3c9da&amp;k=83924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obama's Playing Spooky Mind Games In Arizona]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/31/irrational-exuberance-in-arizona.aspx</link><author>Nate Silver</author><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In contrast to what most candidates do in the closing days of a race, Barack Obama is expanding his list of targets, making an ad buy in Arizona as well as Georgia and North Dakota...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-01:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/31/irrational-exuberance-in-arizona.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["We're Doing The Work McCain's People Can't Or Won't Do": Meet The Man Behind The New Reverend Wright Ad]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=9a0c768c-3894-4dcf-ad32-8a89263f04e4</link><author>Zvika Krieger</author><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright is back in the headlines thanks to a new ad by the recently formed National Republican Trust PAC. I spoke over the phone today with the ad's creator, Rick Wilson, a GOP media consultant who is most infamous for a 2002 campaign ad tying then-Senator Max Cleland to Osama bin Laden.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-01:story.html?id=9a0c768c-3894-4dcf-ad32-8a89263f04e4&amp;k=23693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawsuits! Shady Associates! Dirty Money! Your Guide To The Never-Ending Scandals Of Norm Coleman.]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/10/31/your-one-stop-guide-to-the-norm-coleman-scandal-thon.aspx</link><author>Eve Fairbanks</author><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Lawsuits! Shady associates! Dirty money! It's very hard to keep track of what the hell's been going on in these final days of the Norm Coleman-Al Franken showdown in Minnesota, so here's a little cheat sheet for you to keep track.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-01:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/10/31/your-one-stop-guide-to-the-norm-coleman-scandal-thon.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Real Reason Red-Staters Are So Angry. (Hint: Have You Ever Tried To Buy A Vibrator In Texas?)]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/31/so-this-is-why-red-staters-are-so-angry.aspx</link><author>Michelle Cottle</author><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A colleague (I won't reveal his name) was up late last night watching 'Thelma and Louise' on Lifetime. During a commerical break, an ad for Trojan's Vibrating Touch fingertip massager for women came on. Naturally, my colleague's journalistic curiosity was piqued and he rushed to the website mentioned for more info. (Hey, in these final stressful days of the campaign, a man's gotta do what he's gotta do to stay distracted.)]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-01:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/31/so-this-is-why-red-staters-are-so-angry.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John McCain's Bizarre Fantasy U.N. Replacement]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=c5ea3465-a711-47d4-b50d-39f4bb589d69</link><author>Nina Hachigian</author><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There is a line of thought in international affairs, the democratic peace theory, which suggests democracies never go to war with one another.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-01:story.html?id=c5ea3465-a711-47d4-b50d-39f4bb589d69&amp;k=63561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TNRtv: What Would Rahm Emanuel As Chief Of Staff Say About An Obama Administration?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/31/tnrtv-fairbanks-on-rahm-emanuel-house-mafioso-as-obama-s-chief-of-staff.aspx</link><author>Eve Fairbanks</author><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[TNR associate editor Eve Fairbanks takes issue with today's report that Obama will select House bruiser Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff: why Obama doesn't want a 'yes man,' where GOP charges of Emanuel partisanship fall short, and how the 'Tony Soprano' of congress would run things in the White House.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-11-01:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/31/tnrtv-fairbanks-on-rahm-emanuel-house-mafioso-as-obama-s-chief-of-staff.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Movie Review: 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno']]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=2b4e0d40-7167-4193-bd3b-fcebb49e19e9</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With 1990s films such as 'Clerks<' and 'Chasing Amy,' Kevin Smith pioneered the kind of tender raunch that, under Judd Apatow, has come to dominate American comedy.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-31:story.html?id=2b4e0d40-7167-4193-bd3b-fcebb49e19e9&amp;k=17444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rashid Who? Why The Jews Finally Came Home To Obama]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=4caddc86-ef98-4bf1-a4fb-bb3cbc40b9d1</link><author>Ethan Porter</author><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[By late last spring, concerns about Jews deserting the presumptive Democratic nominee, Barack Obama, had reached a fever pitch. Writing in his popular blog for Politico, Ben Smith declared that Obama had a "Jewish problem."]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-31:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=4caddc86-ef98-4bf1-a4fb-bb3cbc40b9d1</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meet Lou Barletta, The Anti-Immigrant Republican Who's Riding Obama's Coattails To A House Seat]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=5d6688e6-5f56-49c1-8ab0-e1c17f384fc2</link><author>Marin Cogan</author><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[DUNMORE, PENNSYLVANIA--With just two weeks left until the election, Democratic Representative Paul Kanjorski is in the back room of Ragnacci's, a cozy sports bar just outside of Scranton, doing his best to fire up a crowd of mostly elderly voters. "Obama's going to win big in northeastern Pennsylvania," the 71-year-old lawmaker declares. "And I'm going to win"--here he pauses--"reasonably big in northeastern Pennsylvania!"]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-31:story.html?id=5d6688e6-5f56-49c1-8ab0-e1c17f384fc2&amp;k=37491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did The Swift Boaters Finally Beat John Murtha?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=5a8c356a-9984-4cfe-9405-d7e55a110a30</link><author>Joshua Hersh</author><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In just a few short weeks, eighteen-term Democratic congressman John Murtha has gone from shoo-in incumbent to a man on the brink.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-31:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=5a8c356a-9984-4cfe-9405-d7e55a110a30</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why It's So Hard For The Media To Call McCain Out On His Policy Lies]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=280f0d20-7c61-45ef-98a7-87a37b43080e</link><author>Jonathan Cohn</author><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ten days ago, the campaign’s unofficial referees came down pretty hard
on Barack Obama and his campaign. The issue was Medicare--specifically,
Obama’s accusation that John McCain intends to slash the program.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-31:story.html?id=280f0d20-7c61-45ef-98a7-87a37b43080e&amp;k=18893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[McCain Believes Good Always Defeats Evil, And, Well, That's Scary In A President]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/30/what-newsweek-s-editor-doesn-t-get-about-john-mccain.aspx</link><author>Peter Scoblic</author><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[This morning on NPR, Newsweek editor Jon Meacham provided a bizarre analysis of John McCain's worldview, and then dove headfirst down the rabbit hole in arguing that it's quite similar to Barack Obama's. Meacham argued that, as fans of Reinhold Niebuhr, both McCain and Obama are "moral realists"--men who understand that good cannot always triumph over evil, that the world is stubbornly tragic, and, because we must live in that world, we must learn to compromise. Although I think Obama possesses an innate optimism, that's not a bad description of his approach to morality in policy, particularly foreign policy. But it completely misses the essence of John McCain--and therefore one of the most important distinctions between the two candidates.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-31:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/30/what-newsweek-s-editor-doesn-t-get-about-john-mccain.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finally, The Campaign Turns To A Truly Substantive Argument]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=1c637aba-c364-4ed7-b537-a7af26613eb7</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[SHIPPENSBURG, Pa.--Emily Daywalt decided to go to the first political
rally of her life because she wanted to cheer Sarah Palin, who was here
a few days ago to inspire the faithful. Daywalt said she likes it that
Palin "hunts and that she believes in God and that she is a strong,
independent woman."]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/24be34eb-ecfe-4969-88c2-5aa898db4139/obamaoct30_1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-31:story.html?id=1c637aba-c364-4ed7-b537-a7af26613eb7&amp;k=76804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California's Anti-Gay Marriage Crusaders Have Decided To Put A Very Nice Face On A Very Close-Minded Idea]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=cf9cd254-f184-482c-bded-45d9a5af32f1</link><author>T.A. Frank</author><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[LOS, ANGELES--The interior of the 'Yes on 8' bus looks disappointingly similar to that of a Greyhound bus, apart from some perfunctory 'Yes on 8' banners affixed to every other window. But the exterior, a celebration of heterosexual marriage, is more distinctive. Occupying the most prominent spot on the side of the bus is a larger-than-life white couple, a bride and groom, enjoying a wedding kiss.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-30:story.html?id=cf9cd254-f184-482c-bded-45d9a5af32f1&amp;k=57773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Scariest Part About The Economic Collapse Is That, Even Still, Nobody Knows What's Going On]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=dc0d6327-402e-4476-b2db-e0135dc74da5</link><author>Steven R. Weisman</author><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As investors all around the world ran scared this past month, their panic was about the only thing easy to understand. The global financial system was collapsing and almost nobody could say--in plain English--what exactly was fueling such a gigantic crisis. Not the president, who offered insipid generalities; nor the presidential candidates, who stuck to old themes like earmarks, taxes, and deregulation.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-30:story.html?id=dc0d6327-402e-4476-b2db-e0135dc74da5&amp;k=80460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Simon Cowell Saved American Democracy]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=0eb46683-e4c9-4e7b-adf2-7b02b9c4e44c</link><author>Alan H. Fleischmann</author><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Washington pundits like to dismiss the 'youth vote' as a figment of
MTV's imagination. Those crazy kids, they say, never rock the vote.
They are too busy playing video games and listening to their loud music to take their democratic responsibilities seriously. And if you looked back at every election since the lowering of the voting ages in 1971, you would have to conclude that the pundits had a point.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-30:story.html?id=0eb46683-e4c9-4e7b-adf2-7b02b9c4e44c&amp;k=20993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why America Is Better Served By Having Two Parties In Power: A Response To John B. Judis]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=a095f9fb-d64c-4259-91b8-f5c056c0fe16</link><author>Jacob T. Levy</author><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There is a growing consensus that having the president and Congress controlled by different parties makes for better governance--an argument that the GOP is using to scare voters into voting against the 'dangerous threesome' of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid. Earlier this week John Judis made the contrarian argument in favor of single-party rule, saying that divided government 'is a curse, not a blessing.' I'm not persuaded.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-30:story.html?id=a095f9fb-d64c-4259-91b8-f5c056c0fe16&amp;k=71544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Correspondence: Rodger Foreman on 'Barracuda']]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=24600122-0342-4c1b-a928-6eb340ab8387</link><author>Rodger Foreman and Noam Scheiber</author><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Dear Editor: Some weeks ago, I was contacted by … Noam Scheiber, who wrote the article 'Barracuda,' appearing in your current issue.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-30:story.html?id=24600122-0342-4c1b-a928-6eb340ab8387&amp;k=24654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Does Covering A Two-Year Campaign Do To The Soul Of A Journalist?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=64442a77-1d23-487b-af08-68d26b6da713</link><author>Julia Ioffe</author><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[What Does Covering A Two-Year Campaign Do To The Soul Of A Journalist?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-29:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=64442a77-1d23-487b-af08-68d26b6da713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should Obama Fans Be Popping Corks Or Xanax? Our Senior Editors Debate Obama Inevitability.]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/28/start-popping-the-corks.aspx</link><author>John B. Judis and Noam Scheiber</author><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If the extensive Pew Center poll proves prescient, the Obama people will be popping the corks by 8 PM next Tuesday, and the Republican party will be in for a very long winter. The poll shows Obama ahead by 52 to 36 percent.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-29:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/28/start-popping-the-corks.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing The Financial Crisis As An Opportunity]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=6dffebc3-37fd-45ec-93cc-567fd351a54b</link><author>Michael E. Lewitt</author><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[We are now on our second multibillion-dollar plan to bail out Wall Street. The Bush administration has abandoned the free-market ideology that laid the groundwork for the crisis, acknowledging that nothing less than wholesale intervention can prevent a complete collapse of the global financial system.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-29:story.html?id=6dffebc3-37fd-45ec-93cc-567fd351a54b&amp;k=7036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TNR EXCLUSIVE: The Bush Administration Has Dramatically Escalated The Fight Against Al Qaeda--With Serious Implications For An Obama Administration.]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=9c613d05-0441-4a14-bf40-ef3ac16a42b5</link><author>Eli Lake</author><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On Sunday, U.S. helicopters accompanied by a special forces team struck in Sukkariyeh, Syria, just over the border from Iraq. It was a raid with enormous implications for the war in Iraq and the broader war on terror. The target of the raid was a man named Badran Turki Hishan al-Mazidih, better known in his circles as Abu Ghadiya.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-29:story.html?id=9c613d05-0441-4a14-bf40-ef3ac16a42b5&amp;k=93469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Bobby Jindal Really 'The Republican Obama'? And Would The GOP Ever Nominate Him For President?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/28/is-bobby-jindal-really-quot-the-republican-obama-quot.aspx</link><author>Suzy Khimm and Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With the Republicans' presidential hopes for 2008 now all but dashed, a few upstarts in the party are—surprise—positioning themselves for future runs. Last week, Chris Cillizza flagged the appearance of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal in a television spot for John Kennedy, the Republican challenger to Senator Mary Landrieu. Amid a backdrop of stately white columns, the young Indian-American governor projects a cool image of steadiness and calm. Sound like anyone you know?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-29:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/28/is-bobby-jindal-really-quot-the-republican-obama-quot.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why McCain's Economic Plan Will Screw New York (And Most Other States Too!)]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/28/mccain-to-new-york-drop-dead.aspx</link><author>Jonathan Cohn</author><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[OK, McCain hasn't actually said 'Drop Dead' to New York. But he's sending the same message with his economic agenda. Consider the latest news from Albany, where Governor David Paterson has just provided this bleak picture of the state's fiscal condition...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-29:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/28/mccain-to-new-york-drop-dead.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How America's Financial Meltdown Allowed Argentina's President To Plunder People's Savings]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=aad75bb6-7ccf-406d-b235-f955bd5f1de9</link><author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--I recently suggested that the U.S. government's bailout of the financial system, which includes the de facto nationalization of several banks, would arouse populists around the world and give them the perfect alibi to confiscate private property. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of Argentina has been the first to confirm my prediction.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-29:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=aad75bb6-7ccf-406d-b235-f955bd5f1de9</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divided Government Doesn't Work]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/27/down-with-divided-government.aspx</link><author>John B. Judis</author><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I am a great fan of the Financial Times, and I was interested to see that they endorsed Barack Obama for president. But they couldn’t do so without perpetuating one of the great fallacies of American politics -- a fallacy that is currently echoed by the McCain campaign and the Republican party.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-28:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/27/down-with-divided-government.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[RIP Northeastern Republicans. Cause Of Death: Barracuda Attack.]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=7e7f253a-9e9e-49c0-8e15-09f5039092cf</link><author>Suzy Khimm</author><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It's a beautiful Saturday afternoon in October, and, as Republican Representative Chris Shays drives between churches in his affluent Connecticut district, he is talking about the possibility of being knifed.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-28:story.html?id=7e7f253a-9e9e-49c0-8e15-09f5039092cf&amp;k=976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throwing A Cold Dose Of Reality On The Claim That Obama Endorsed Redistribution Of Wealth]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/27/ridiculousness-about-redistribution-drudge-and-others.aspx</link><author>Cass R. Sunstein</author><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In the last few days, the McCain campaign has portrayed Barack Obama as a 'socialist,' and apparently the campaign and others are combing through Obama's past statements to see if he has ever favored 'redistribution.']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-28:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/27/ridiculousness-about-redistribution-drudge-and-others.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hot New Trend: Republicans Pretending To Be Democrats. Is This Good Or Bad For Liberals?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/27/when-republicans-sound-like-democrats.aspx</link><author>Jonathan Cohn</author><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If Democrats end up winning big next week, not only at the presidential but the congressional level, to what extent will it represent an endorsement of the party's ideas? That would be the major question going forward. And those who oppose the Democratic agenda will, almost certainly, argue that Democratic themes and policy proposals had nothing to do with it.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-28:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/27/when-republicans-sound-like-democrats.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should The Government Bail Out Detroit? (Would It Even Be Able To?)]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/environmentandenergy/archive/2008/10/27/bailing-out-detroit.aspx</link><author>Bradford Plumer</author><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It's been clear for quite some time that GM badly miscalculated by assuming gas prices would stay low forever and SUV sales could keep the automaker afloat for years and years to come. Even so, the big New York Times blow-by-blow of that story is well worth reading, including a report that its execs nixed a $2 billion overhaul of its SUV line 'without a single dissenting vote' last May.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-28:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/environmentandenergy/archive/2008/10/27/bailing-out-detroit.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Riddance, John Murtha]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/10/27/if-john-murtha-loses-do-we-care.aspx</link><author>Eve Fairbanks</author><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It takes terrible luck or astonishing talent for a congressional Democrat to be endangered this year. Still, there are a half-dozen Democrats who really could lose their seats a week from tomorrow.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-28:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/10/27/if-john-murtha-loses-do-we-care.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Only Watch One Video In Which The McCain-Palin War Is Acted Out With Hand Puppets, Make It This One]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/27/tnrtv-chait-s-puppet-show-featuring-mccain-amp-palin.aspx</link><author>Jonathan Chait</author><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As Sarah Palin starts distancing herself from a losing candidate, TNR senior editor Jonathan Chait performs his own reenactment of the civil war brewing inside the McCain campaign.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-28:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/27/tnrtv-chait-s-puppet-show-featuring-mccain-amp-palin.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Staking Out McCain's Right]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=c802a2d0-fc5e-4d81-865a-a558030f391e</link><author>Jonathan Chait</author><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In 1960, John F. Kennedy attacked the incumbent Republican administration for allowing the Soviet Union to open up a 'missile gap' over the United States. The gap turned out not to exist. But it put the young, inexperienced Massachusetts senator on the political offensive and positioned him to the right of his more experienced Republican foe on the central foreign policy question of the day.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-27:story.html?id=c802a2d0-fc5e-4d81-865a-a558030f391e&amp;k=65089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[McCain Is Dragging Down GOP Races Across The Country--And Party Leaders Are Pissed!]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=9776dc1f-768f-4726-af67-828a882562ac</link><author>Eric Zimmermann</author><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Mark Feest is doing all he can to get John McCain elected.
Unfortunately, the McCain campaign hasn't always made that easy. Feest is the chairman of the GOP committee in Churchill, a rural region of some 20,000 people in northwestern Nevada.
Feest complains that the campaign doesn't seem to understand the nature of rural areas.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-27:story.html?id=9776dc1f-768f-4726-af67-828a882562ac&amp;k=46480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[McCain's Florida Slide Demonstrates His Campaign's Failings]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=4b50b7ff-1de2-4f99-ae9e-4ed310764f56</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ORLANDO -- Florida provides the appropriate closing metaphor for the 2008 campaign.]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/8137d59a-9e08-4da3-bbed-0619af48403b/1027mccain_florida.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-27:story.html?id=4b50b7ff-1de2-4f99-ae9e-4ed310764f56&amp;k=9961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does Anyone In The Financial World Actually Know How To Prevent The Coming Disaster? Is It Too Late?]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=b15043b8-3d7a-4265-9bf4-83e2735074b7</link><author>Bernard-Henri Levy</author><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[We are living in an extraordinary time.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-27:story.html?id=b15043b8-3d7a-4265-9bf4-83e2735074b7&amp;k=39624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slashed Tires! Confederate Flags! Animal Carcasses! And More Of The Increasingly Ugly Stories From The Campaign Trail.]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=1060be43-207e-4bdf-9140-ed6b8092152f</link><author>Michael Crowley</author><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The presidential has gotten increasingly ugly over the past few months. But things have devolved to such new lows in the last few days that we've decided to compile our blog coverage of the campaign's inglorious events. Wince at will.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-27:story.html?id=1060be43-207e-4bdf-9140-ed6b8092152f&amp;k=39928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Soldiers Really Vote]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=bdd3d40a-6302-43df-899a-091761a71e96</link><author>Jason Dempsey</author><pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Last Thursday, the 'Military Times' released the results of a survey showing that members of the armed services planned to vote for John McCain over Barack Obama by a factor of nearly three to one--this at a time when the Democratic nominee was handily beating his Republican rival in almost all national polls. The survey apparently reaffirmed the long-held conventional wisdom that the U.S. military overwhelmingly backs the GOP.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-25:story.html?id=bdd3d40a-6302-43df-899a-091761a71e96&amp;k=9322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senior Editor Cagematch! Scheiber Vs. Chait On Whether Sarah Palin Will Be The GOP Nominee In 2012.]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/10/24/no-way-palin-in-2012.aspx</link><author>Noam Scheiber and Jonathan Chait</author><pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Palin in 2012?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-25:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/10/24/no-way-palin-in-2012.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These Vampires Won't Only Suck Your Blood; They'll Make You Scratch Your Head In Befuddlement]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=f291faad-7bc3-4c65-ad32-c4fe760c7889</link><author>Stanley Kauffmann</author><pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['Stranded: I've come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains'--Zeitgeist Films
'Let The Right One In'--Magnet Releasing]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-25:story.html?id=f291faad-7bc3-4c65-ad32-c4fe760c7889&amp;k=96366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TNRtv: Behind Limbaugh And Co.'s Farcical Attempt To Challenge Obama's Citizenship]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/24/tnrtv-fairbanks-on-obama-citizenship-allegations.aspx</link><author>Eve Fairbanks</author><pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[TNR associate editor Eve Fairbanks rips apart Limbaugh and his conservative cohorts for their accusations that Obama is not an American citizen, and explains why such ugly slander may be depressing Democrats.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-25:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/24/tnrtv-fairbanks-on-obama-citizenship-allegations.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Correspondence: Michael G. Oxley on 'The Gilded Age']]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=09991e49-e355-42a1-b2ef-5c73880ae43b</link><author>Michael G. Oxley</author><pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Dear Editor:&nbsp; The content of Dave Jamieson’s article referring to the time of my chairmanship, "The Gilded Age," was filled with errors and misrepresentations.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-25:story.html?id=09991e49-e355-42a1-b2ef-5c73880ae43b&amp;k=90100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palin in '12? No Way!]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/10/24/no-way-palin-in-2012.aspx</link><author>Noam Scheiber</author><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, Jon Chait predicted that Palin would be the GOP nominee for president in 2012. That's a bet I'll gladly take, since I happen to think there's zero chance of it happening.  My confidence is based on five things:]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-24:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/10/24/no-way-palin-in-2012.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[McJustice: Consider The Judicial Apocalypse That McCain Would Usher In.]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=87ca9449-7b32-48fa-bccb-7615457812be</link><author>Jeffrey Rosen</author><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[During every presidential campaign for the last two decades,
liberals have predicted an apocalypse in the Supreme Court. In
their dire visions, as many as four justices are always about to
retire, meaning that a Republican victory would turn the court
radically to the right and lead to the certain overturning of Roe
v. Wade.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-24:story.html?id=87ca9449-7b32-48fa-bccb-7615457812be&amp;k=31338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Praise Of The LOOGY--The Most Absurd Players In Baseball]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=1b659235-180f-4ac8-90da-48be7da8e40a</link><author>Tim Marchman</author><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A World Series--even one hosted in such grim locales as St. Petersburg's moldy Tropicana Field or Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Park, the Ford F-250 of ballparks--is all about stars. No one pays $600 for a ticket to watch Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Jason Bartlett work smart at-bats and turn tricky double plays; they come to watch men like Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard hit the ball 450 feet.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-24:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=1b659235-180f-4ac8-90da-48be7da8e40a</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The GOP's Latest Plan To Defeat Blue Dog Democrats? Nominate Wingnuts Too Conservative Even For Their Own Party!]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=56a3ea96-037a-45a3-9885-4558580577f9</link><author>Eve Fairbanks</author><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In many ways, it was your standard Democratic fund-raiser in a Republican stronghold. On a recent Friday, a largely bleeding-heart contingent from Maryland's first congressional district--professors from the nearby liberal arts college, a left-wing lobbyist, a Sears scion turned Obama donor, the president of an environmental foundation--holed up in a Patton Boggs lawyer's Eastern Shore home to give their earnest young congressional candidate, state prosecutor Frank Kratovil, a sympathetic pat on the back. But somebody there was not like most of the others.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-24:story.html?id=56a3ea96-037a-45a3-9885-4558580577f9&amp;k=65254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although Obama and McCain Have Both Been Called Socialists, The Socialist Party USA's Presidential Nominee Really Is One, And His Feelings Are Hurt]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=1f7f7eb6-9f78-4f47-a2db-fc79a1dcaada</link><author>Katherine Marsh</author><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With all the accusations of socialism flying around, it seemed like a good time to check in with Brian Moore, the Socialist Party USA presidential nominee. As Moore himself observed, socialism
has been in the news more in the past few weeks 'than anytime since
1932.']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-24:story.html?id=1f7f7eb6-9f78-4f47-a2db-fc79a1dcaada&amp;k=46123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Angelina Jolie's Wanna-Be Oscar Bait May Be The Worst Movie Of The Year]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=8a250bfa-c9ce-44b9-8025-a4bcaa0a3698</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The first signs of trouble in Clint Eastwood's period drama 'Changeling' arrive early. Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie), a single mother in 1928 Los Angeles, readies her nine-year-old son, Walter, for school; heads to her job as a telephone operator supervisor (nice detail: the roller skates she wears to glide quickly from one end of the phone bank to the other); promises Walter she'll take him to a movie on Saturday; etc.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-24:story.html?id=8a250bfa-c9ce-44b9-8025-a4bcaa0a3698&amp;k=61767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Republican Party Has Finally Imploded. But Why Now?]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=00c06f55-a5e0-48fb-a5e1-c3978ba94600</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--Conservatives are at each others throats, and here's what's revealing about how divided they are: The critics of John McCain and the critics of Sarah Palin represent entirely different camps.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-24:story.html?id=00c06f55-a5e0-48fb-a5e1-c3978ba94600&amp;k=19355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TNRtv: Can Obama Stop 'Socialist' From Being A Dirty Word?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/23/tnrtv-judis-on-why-obama-s-not-socialist.aspx</link><author>John B. Judis</author><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[TNR senior editor John B. Judis sets the record straight about socialism: why Obama's plan is the theory's antithesis, why the bailout also doesn't qualify, and why before long, the word 'socialism' may be more pious than profane.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-24:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/23/tnrtv-judis-on-why-obama-s-not-socialist.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why I'm Voting For Obama: When McCain Picked Sarah Palin, He Told The United States Of America To Go F*ck Itself.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=48009e42-978b-4535-8f03-a6bcad5ca10d</link><author>Leon Wieseltier</author><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I have never voted happily in a general election. In the 1980s I envied my conservative friends who drew the curtain of the voting booth over an epiphany, whereas I groaned beneath my philosophical complexity when I voted for Reagan; and when I voted for Clinton a decade later, it was not without an exertion of casuistry about the distinction between supportable and admirable.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-23:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=48009e42-978b-4535-8f03-a6bcad5ca10d</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How The West Was Lost: Why McCain Is So Unpopular In His Own Backyard]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=fb1c6783-fc3e-48c7-8fd5-f0f1a2a77d9e</link><author>Nate Silver</author><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two regions in this election contain a disproportionate number of battleground states: the Rust Belt (including Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin) and the Interior West (Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada). On that score, each candidate would seem to have a home-region advantage, with Barack Obama representing Illinois in the heart of the Rust Belt region, and John McCain Arizona in the Interior West.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-23:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=fb1c6783-fc3e-48c7-8fd5-f0f1a2a77d9e</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making Sense Of The Confusing, Contentious 'Problem' Of Voter Fraud]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=1c31a193-489f-45b0-8bd7-bb0db7a12227</link><author>Dayo Olopade</author><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[We were supposed to be beyond this. In 2000, George W. Bush's freakishly thin margin of victory over Al Gore once more thrust the twin problems of voter access and voter legitimacy into the national spotlight. The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002 was meant to establish uniform, upgraded standards for registration and voting--but, this year, a new wave of conflicts over residency requirements, citizenship requirements, and legal cases invoking the Republican chestnut of "voter fraud" suggest that the issues that brought us the long national nightmare of the Florida recount won't die easily.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-23:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=1c31a193-489f-45b0-8bd7-bb0db7a12227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, Sarah Palin Will Be The Republican Nominee In 2012]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/22/prediction-palin-in-2012.aspx</link><author>Jonathan Chait</author><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With a long campaign finally nearing its (apparently foregone) conclusion, people are tiring of speculation about the presidential race. I think what they want now is... speculation about the next presidential race. Never too early for this sort of thing. I'm predicting that Sarah Palin will be the next Republican nominee.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-23:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/22/prediction-palin-in-2012.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Philosophy About Learning To Live Or Learning To Die?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=0830b40d-cd01-4e09-98a6-2d7c68bc1dba</link><author>Peter N. Miller</author><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['To philosophize is to learn to die': seven words, and an epoch in Western thought. According to Plato in the Phaedo, one of the inextinguishable monuments that he erected to his martyred teacher, Socrates believed that philosophy was a way of 'practicing dying.']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-23:http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=0830b40d-cd01-4e09-98a6-2d7c68bc1dba</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Many Polls Does It Take To Screw Up An Election?]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=a3894827-4373-4f9b-a0e9-ebbc88036375</link><author>Michael Crowley</author><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[At three o'clock on the afternoon of Wednesday, September 24, John
McCain announced a bold move. He was suspending his campaign and
rushing back to Washington to deal with the escalating financial
crisis, even if it meant skipping a scheduled debate with Barack
Obama that Friday night.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-22:story.html?id=a3894827-4373-4f9b-a0e9-ebbc88036375&amp;k=15734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who's The More Shameful Recession-Era President: George W. Bush Or Herbert Hoover?]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=72e638ce-e806-4bce-a7d9-3b9c6ef06802</link><author>William E. Leuchtenburg</author><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[At various points throughout his administration, George W.
Bush has been likened to Abraham Lincoln and Harry Truman, to Teddy Roosevelt and William McKinley. But during his second term, a consensus has been forming on the president he most brings to mind. As early as the fall of 2006, historian Douglas Brinkley wrote that Bush "has joined [Herbert] Hoover as a case study on
how not to be president."]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-22:story.html?id=72e638ce-e806-4bce-a7d9-3b9c6ef06802&amp;k=92955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Obama May Be Able To Implement Big, Ambitious Government Programs In A 'Conservative' Nation]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/21/are-we-a-conservative-country.aspx</link><author>Jonathan Cohn</author><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Not for the first time--and, I'm sure, not for the last--Paul Krugman wrote what I was thinking this morning...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-22:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/21/are-we-a-conservative-country.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let It Grow! On The Widening Chasm Between Conservatism And The Republican Party.]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=7751d814-9dfa-4ca7-9483-4589fd55c695</link><author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--A rebellion is beginning to take place among American conservatives, many of them influential commentators who are denouncing the takeover of the Republican Party by a mixture of anti-intellectual populists and political extremists.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-22:story.html?id=7751d814-9dfa-4ca7-9483-4589fd55c695&amp;k=98645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Half Tame Literature, Poetry, And Criticism Of Roger Shattuck]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=d60edecb-9038-4b1d-8c89-32d4dea976b9</link><author>Jed Perl</author><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The time has come to take a fresh look at the achievement of Roger
Shattuck, who died in 2005 at the age of eighty-two. From his first
book, 'The Banquet Years', published exactly half a century ago, to
his last major work, '0Forbidden Knowledge', Shattuck was one of
America's most adventuresome students of modernity, at once a
celebrant of some of the wildest reaches of artistic experiment and
a critic of the twentieth century's dream of unlimited, ever-
expanding horizons.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-22:story.html?id=d60edecb-9038-4b1d-8c89-32d4dea976b9&amp;k=53763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Axelrod Method: How Barack Obama's Message Man Has Learned To Conquer Race]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=3ffae5b3-3ca3-4186-a9bf-59c00be8e98b</link><author>Jason Zengerle</author><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In 1992, a Chicago woman named Bettylu Saltzman met Barack Obama,
who had graduated from Harvard Law School one year earlier and was
now in her city leading a voter-registration drive called Project
Vote. Saltzman, an heiress to a shopping-mall fortune who's long
been active in Democratic politics, was volunteering for Bill
Clinton's presidential bid when, one day, Obama dropped by the
campaign's Chicago office to discuss Project Vote.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-21:story.html?id=3ffae5b3-3ca3-4186-a9bf-59c00be8e98b&amp;k=8941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reaching Critical Mass: Progressive Catholics Are As Organized Now As Conservative Catholics Were In 2004]]></title><link>http://magazines.enews.com/toc/story.html?id=124da3b2-948a-4e23-8006-b672cacd3a78</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--It has become commonplace in American politics: Certain Roman Catholic bishops declare that the faithful should cast their ballots on the basis of a limited number of 'nonnegotiable issues,' notably opposition to abortion. Conservative Catholics cheer, more liberal Catholics howl. And that is usually the end of the story.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-21:story.html?id=124da3b2-948a-4e23-8006-b672cacd3a78&amp;k=39195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could The Recession Be Good News For The Environment? Maybe? Just A Little?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/environmentandenergy/archive/2008/10/20/there-s-nothing-green-about-a-recession.aspx</link><author>Bradford Plumer</author><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A few days ago, Nobel-winning chemist Paul Crutzen told Reuters, 'It's a cruel thing to say, but if we are looking at a slowdown in the economy, there will be less fossil fuels burning, so for the climate it could be an advantage.']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-10-21:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blo