The federal government has proposed the partial nationalization of nine banks to try to stem the economic crisis, notes the front page of the Post. The crisis will make it hard for any future administration to continue President Bush’s unilateralism and could force countries to challenge free-market ideologies, writes Thomas B. Edsall. With John McCain still holding a polling lead over Barack Obama on national security issues, the Obama campaign should highlight McCain’s reluctance toward diplomacy and undermine his assertions that the surge was the main cause for the reduction in Iraqi violence, writes Arianna Huffington.