Remembering John Murtha
John Nichols: His Iraq War debate with Dick Cheney called to bring the troops home and highlighted the difference between the modern era's sunshine patriots and winter soldiers.
John Nichols: His Iraq War debate with Dick Cheney called to bring the troops home and highlighted the difference between the modern era's sunshine patriots and winter soldiers.
Lawrence Lessig: If we want change, we have to change Congress.
D.D. Guttenplan: Morris Dickstein's elegant cultural history of the Great Depression.

Various Contributors : Health Insurance
Uninsured Americans have arguably the highest stake in the outcome of the healthcare debate--so why are they absent from the national conversation over its fate? Posted 51 minutes ago
Thomas Geoghegan & The Editors : Congress
Let the Republicans actually filibuster something, hour after excrutiating hour, in real time. The public won't like it.

Harry Kreisler : Activism & Organizing
In this unpublished interview from 2001, Howard Zinn talks about his coming-of-age as a radical thinker.
Robert Lipsyte : Sports
The thirty-second spots for chips, beer, babes and flatulent slackers star in the big game.
Although homosexuality is criminalized in 80 countries, the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009 is the most outrageous attempt to sanction homophobia and threaten the human rights of all its citizens. Here are ten ways to oppose this legislation and stand up for human rights wherever you are.

A close look at the chilling conditions immigrants face under Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and the policy proposals that could vastly improve them.
D.D. Guttenplan : Great Britain
The Chilcot Inquiry's lesson is the terrible cost to any country that defines the national interest as standing shoulder to shoulder with Washington.

Jeremy Scahill : US Wars & Military Action
Three US special forces soldiers were killed in northwest Pakistan this week, confirming that the US military is more deeply engaged on the ground in Pakistan than previously acknowledged by the White House and Pentagon.
The Editors : Political Analysis
Morton Mintz on what Rehnquist would have thought of Citizens United; John Nichols on net neutrality.
Alexander Cockburn : Immigration to the US
A host of politicians and pundits would have you believe that Hispanic immigrants are to blame for an uptick in urban crime. They're wrong.

Michael O'Donnell : Supreme Court
Who is the purest archetype of the conservative legal movement, Antonin Scalia or John Roberts?
Bill de Blasio : Supreme Court
In the face of a Supreme Court decision that eliminates crucial checks on corporate political spending nationwide, we must demand greater accountability and transparency around how corporations spend money in elections across the country.
Anna Momigliano : Feminism & Women
To consider honor killing within Muslim communities a crime unto itself overlooks the patriarchal roots of much of the intimate partner violence perpetrated in the Western world.
Eric Foner : Autobiography & Memoir
Howard Zinn's writings remain essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the upheavals of the '60s

Lifting the Veil on US Troops in Pakistan
Laura Flanders
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Who Dat? Dat’s the Super Bowl Champs!
Dave Zirin
Another Super Bowl, Another Scandal
Laura Flanders
The Mind-Boggling Stupidity of Michael Rubin | How an AEI apparatchik's love affair for Ahmed Chalabi blinds him to Chalabi's pro-Iran treachery.
Robert Dreyfuss
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John Murtha: The Old Soldier Who Said "Bring the Troops Home" | His Iraq War debate with Dick Cheney highlighted the difference between the modern era's sunshine patriots and winter soldiers.
John Nichols
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Demand Question Time | Join the call for the President and Congress to implement regular Question Time sessions.
Peter Rothberg
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Welcome to Palinland | Though Sarah Palin's National Tea Party Convention keynote garnered applause when she invoked Ronald Reagan, the real sage behind her speech was Barry Goldwater.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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How to Counterbalance Focus on the Family on Superbowl Sunday | Give to help low income girls and women.
Katha Pollitt
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Slacker Friday | James O'Keefe and Alter-reviews.
Eric Alterman
Eric Foner
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Howard Zinn's writings remain essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the upheavals of the '60s
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Morton Mintz on what Rehnquist would have thought of Citizens United; John Nichols on net neutrality.



D.D. Guttenplan : Morris Dickstein's elegant cultural history of the Great Depression.

Michael O'Donnell : Who is the purest archetype of the conservative legal movement, Antonin Scalia or John Roberts?

Alice Kaplan : The novelist Dominique Fernandez struggles to understand his father's years as a Nazi collaborator.

Charles Glass
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A poignant memoir about life in the occupied territories during the second intifada.
John Palattella : Joseph Stiglitz's Freefall, Mark Weiss's The Whole Island and Robert Darnton's The Case for Books.

Miriam Markowitz : If love has been exhausted as a literary theme, has it vanished from our experience of life as well?
Jana Prikryl : The first decade of filmmaking belonged to one woman alone: Alice Guy Blaché.

Barry Schwabsky : Gerhard Richter's abstract paintings are miraculously controlled accidents.


