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...We hope she wí11 explain its meaning soon on Saturday Night Live...

...So Obama was accused during the campaign...

...With this issue, I step down so I can spend more time writing (including for Dissent) and on scholarship . It was a privilege to serve this journal and, more broadly, the left, and I wí11 remain active on the editorial board . I am grateful to our readers, staff, and contributors for all their support...

...In case the "liberal media" distort her : socialists think that political liberty must be grounded in social and economic citizenship . They were Bolshevism's first foes . They think that vast discrepancies of wealth wound democracy ; that markets are means, not ends...

...Eighteen years ago Irving Howe and Michael Walzer invited me to join them as Dissent's co-editor...

...The new administration must now hold its coalition together, extract us from Bush's mess, and tug toward a more attractive America...

...Obama won thanks to a fresh coalition of liberals and the famously fluid "center...

...The United States is in difficult straits after a quarter-century of Ayo Rand fictions taken for reality...

...Spurred on by the finan­cial crisis, it overcame racism . That is something to savor...

...Barack Obama's victory over the Reagan Revolution's latest surrogates opens new possibilities . . It is a moment for hope, but not for messianic expectations . "Lead us into the Promised Land," someone cried out a century ago at a rally for Eugene V. Debs, Socialist candidate for president . He replied that he wouldn't if he could because then "some­one else could lead you out...

...Think about it, especially if you are a Republican . You can use it againsthim in 2012 . . In the meantime, thanks go to Sarah Palmn for giving the word "socialist" so much publicity...

...We at Dissent wish he were (we have some authority in this regard) . Alas, we must report that he is not even a subscriber . Should anyone wish to send a gift subscription...

...He's a socialist...

...I hope to continue to make my own small contribution to our effort to provide a vibrant voice for an intelligent left MC...

...and, as one of those terrible "liberals" once said, that sick people should be treated according to their illnesses, not according to wages on a labor market . We (call us socialists, leftists, social demo­crats, whatever) think America should cast aside right­wing bromides, not just bail out Wall Street...

...It won't be easy...

...We need robust reform today...