The New Yorker: Table of Contents: October 20, 2008

Beyond the Palin
Hendrik Hertzberg on fighting dirty.
by Hendrik Hertzberg (most popular: Hendrik Hertzberg: The negativity of John McCain. )

Times Tough
Facing down the credit crunch.
by Nick Paumgarten

Campaign ’08 Abroad
Japanese fans of Obama and Palin.
by Dana Goodyear

Biden’s Brief
What kind of Vice-President would he be?
by Ryan Lizza (most popular: Ryan Lizza: What Joe Biden wants as Vice-President. )

Thumbspeak: Text messages—good, bad, or indifferent?
by Louis Menand

Briefly Noted: “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”;

Per Petterson’s “To Siberia.”
by Jeffrey Frank


note url format this current "table of contents The October 20th issue of The New Yorker"
= newyorker.com/magazine/toc/2008/10/20/toc_20081013
so can call up previous table of contents, for *The Political Issue*, following format toc/date of issue/toc_dateminus7 (~maybe bcs posts one week before 'date' of issue?)
yes, consistent: newyorker.com/magazine/toc/2008/10/13/toc_20081006 cool. copying fr TOC here bcs numerous items of int, of wh one - Biden's Brief' alrdy pgmrkd to read, via asllvn.. ...read these items also...


The New Yorker: Table of Contents: October 13, 2008 - The Politics Issue

The choice for President.

(most popular: Comment: The better candidate for 2008.)

We cannot expect one man to heal every wound, to solve every major crisis of policy. So much of the Presidency, as they say, is a matter of waking up in the morning and trying to drink from a fire hydrant. In the quiet of the Oval Office, the noise of immediate demands can be deafening. And yet Obama has precisely the temperament to shut out the noise when necessary and concentrate on the essential. The election of Obama—a man of mixed ethnicity, at once comfortable in the world and utterly representative of twenty-first-century America—would, at a stroke, reverse our country’s image abroad and refresh its spirit at home. His ascendance to the Presidency would be a symbolic culmination of the civil- and voting-rights acts of the nineteen-sixties and the century-long struggles for equality that preceded them. It could not help but say something encouraging, even exhilarating, about the country, about its dedication to tolerance and inclusiveness, about its fidelity, after all, to the values it proclaims in its textbooks. after all. At a moment of economic calamity, international perplexity, political failure, and battered morale, America needs both uplift and realism, both change and steadiness. yes. he is so well suited. hope and realism, brings change and steadiness, yes. It needs a leader temperamentally, intellectually, and emotionally attuned to the complexities of our troubled globe. oh I'm happy. That leader’s name is Barack Obama.

—The Editors

The Hardest Vote
Ohio’s worried working class.
by George Packer

Verbage
The Republican’s word thing.
by James Wood

read thr this in print magazine, tht: well I guess The New Yorker willing to be partisan. I suppose above The Choice from the Editors makes clear that yes The New Yorker is liberal.

Lipstick on a Pig: A 2008 Campaign Quiz
by Paul Slansky

Worlds Apart
Behind the candidates’ foreign policies.
by Nicholas Lemann

The Oracle
How Arianna Huffington sees it.
by Lauren Collins

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