The Measure of Democracy

OP-ED CONTRIBUTORS
By JOHN ASHBERY, AUGUST KLEINZAHLER, JOSHUA MEHIGAN, MARY JO BANG and J. D. McCLATCHY
Published: November 5, 2008
What’s left to say after this seemingly endless campaign? The Op-Ed editors asked five poets to answer that question in writing and on audio.

Finishing Our Work

OP-ED COLUMNIST
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: November 5, 2008
Let every child and every citizen and every new immigrant know that from this day forward: Everything really is possible in America.

Beyond Election Day

Op-Ed Columnist
By BOB HERBERT
Published: November 4, 2008
As Americans go to the polls in what is probably the most important presidential election since World War II, what they really have to decide is what kind of country they want.

Rejoin the World

OP-ED COLUMNIST
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: November 2, 2008
As president, George W. Bush’s cowboy diplomacy wrenched the United States out of the international community. We must rejoin the world.

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OP-ED COLUMNIST
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: November 2, 2008
The presidential candidates have broad ideas about how to restore the nation’s financial health. But what they are not saying is that we are all going to have to pay for it.

Who’s the Question Mark?

OP-ED COLUMNIST
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: November 2, 2008
John McCain was a man of candor. But ever since Steve Schmidt became Mr. McCain’s campaign manager, the candidate has become a question mark.

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

OP-ED COLUMNIST
By FRANK RICH
Published: November 2, 2008
Forty-one years after Sidney Poitier’s “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” racial politics in America have changed, but not completely.