Through the Glasses Darkly. Slavoj Zizek on what the McCain/Palin campaign is saying between the lines.

Honest Abe and Honest Obe. Laura Washington on why Barack Obama wants to you to believe Abraham Lincoln will rise again.

The View From Ohio. Will voters in the economically ravaged Buckeye State 'get over' race and support Obama? David Moberg reports.

Citizen Gore Vidal. Elections won't reverse the decline of American democracy, the prolific literary legend Gore Vidal says in this interview.

On a Mission From God. Chip Berlet and Esther Kaplan examine Sarah Palin's ties to the Christian Right.

Dreaming Green. The Green Party's 5 percent presidential campaign is both modest and ambitious. Can Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente pull it off?

Thanks as always for reading, and for your financial support.

Happy Voting. May the best man win.

Jeremy Gantz

In These Times Web editor