C'est Terrible!
Alexander Cockburn
When in trouble, reach for nuclear subs.
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Truckers Hit the Brakes
Barbara Ehrenreich : Economic Policy
Hard hit by rising costs and the threat of losing their rigs, truckers are staging protests, calling for a bailout and lower fuel prices. What if the rest of us joined them?
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A Modern Government
Max Rose : History
We must embrace the universal benefits of a government dedicated to preparing citizens for acompetitive and unpredictable world.
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The Way Forward
Kirti Datla : History
The New Deal demonstrated the power of government to address failures of the market, and to retreat once it was no longer needed
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When and How?
John West : History
The ethos of the New Deal is only more prescient and pressing today.
2007
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Ho-Ho-Holiday Donations, 2007 Edition
Multiply your good fortune by giving generously to these progressive organizations and charities.
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Iraq's Civil Resistance
The secular left brings together unionists, women's organizations and students.
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WGA: Picket and Click It
Christopher Lisotta : Internet & New Media
As the strike continues, Writers Guild members have turned the Internet into an organizing tool.
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SOA Protest Draws Scant Support From Candidates
Patrick Mulvaney : US Military
As the eighteenth annual demonstration against the Army's School of the Americas nears, we quiz Democratic hopefuls on whether they would shut it down. Their answers are not encouraging.
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'Big Brother' Democracy
Naomi Klein : Civil Rights & Liberties
Protesters in Quebec were treated like contestants in a reality show--put in a field and watched on TV monitors.
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Whatever These People Are On, I Want Some
Who knew what kind of people would be drawn to hop a cruise ship plying the glacial waters off the coast of Alaska to talk about--politics?
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A Grassroots Social Forum
For 10,000 grassroots organizers at the first US Social Forum in Atlanta, the orations were secular and the pulpit was political.
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Are We Disturbing?
Robert S. Eshelman : Global Justice Movement
As leaders of the G-8 Summit played power politics at an opulent resort, protesters displayed a people's power, in demonstrations and at an alternative summit.
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Obama's Impressive Youthroots
Barack Obama's youthful supporters are using Facebook and other social networking web tools to spark a movement that could make a real difference.
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Only Words
Christopher Hayes : Internet & New Media
Now that Democrats have real power, netroots progressives need to choose their issues--and their tactics.
2006
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A Civilizing Mission
The Selected Writings of Eqbal Ahmad collects the work of one of our finest postcolonialist critics.
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News of a Kidnapping
Reviews of The Road to Guantanamo and Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul.
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A Hunger for Justice
Twenty-five years ago, IRA prisoner Bobby Sands died after a sixty-six day hunger strike. Today political prisoners from Guantánamo to Iran, Turkey and Eastern Europe continue to use hunger to draw attention to their plights.
2005
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A Year of Sweet Victories
Katrina vanden Heuvel & Sam Graham-Felsen : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
Among the sweetest victories of 2005: Social Security reform has been blocked, pressure to withdraw from Iraq is growing and progressive activists are making progress on local, state and national issues.
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Profits for Justice
Michael H. Shuman & Merrian Fuller : Business
It's time to pay for the revolution ourselves.
2004
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Southern Ms.
Ashley Sayeau : Feminism & Women
A gathering of feminists is an occasion to commiserate and to strategize.
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The Rise of Open-Source Politics
Micah L. Sifry : Internet & New Media
Thanks to Web-savvy agitators, insiderism and elitism are under heavy attack.
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The Optimism of Uncertainty
I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game.
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The Gates of Hope
Once you have glimpsed the world as it might be, it is impossible to live anymore complacent in the world as it is.
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Hope for Human Rights
The key to hope is realizing that there are always things we can do to curb suffering and end atrocities.
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Hope in a Time of Fear
Even in a seemingly lost cause, one person may unknowingly inspire another.
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Bush Bashers & the Bashers Who Bash Them
Katha Pollitt : Media Analysis
It's a stretch to suggest that the anti-Bush advocates are the lefty equivalent of the hard-right disinformation machine.
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A Social Occasion
Jennifer C. Berkshire : Presidential Election 2004
Social forums in the US face a monumental challenge in that our social movements, by contrast, are small and struggling.
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Tripping on Internet Populism
Micah L. Sifry : Internet & New Media
There was a contagious optimism in the air about the potential of the Internet to effect political change.
2003
2001
This week: Will racism or sexism win the day? Plus: Esther Kaplan on workplace safety and Steven Greenhouse on the struggle facing younger workers. (13mb mp3)
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