Cindy Sheehan: Mother of a Movement?
Karen Houppert : Cindy Sheehan is more a symbol of the peace movement than its leader, a unifying force who seeks to bridge divisions among those who seek an end to war.
Peter Dreier explores the Bush Administration's links to the latest mine disaster, William Johnson analyzes the Teamsters, David Bradley reviews Cynthia Carr's new book on the hidden history of a lynching.
Articles
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Colombia's Deep Divide
Christian Parenti : Colombia's subtly demagogic President Uribe gained the advantage in the upcoming election by leveraging the strength of anti-left paramilitaries, drug trafficking and a culture of violence.
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Teamsters: Changing to Win?
William Johnson : A strong Teamsters union is a powerful weapon in the fight for all working people. But the Teamsters need to rebuild their own house before they can rebuild labor's.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Status Quo Gitmo
: Progressives have sparked courtroom litigation and social protest to focus public attention on Guantánamo. Now the Bush Administration should shut it down.
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Gore Warms Up
David Corn : Al Gore is trying to save the world by stirring a nation in denial over global warming to meaningful action. The pity is that this is a job for a former politician, not a current one.
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Why Mine Deaths Are Up
Peter Dreier : The May 20 mine disaster presents more evidence that the Bush Administration places miners in peril with budget cuts, regulatory rollbacks and industry-friendly appointees.
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Drug War Flunks Out
Hasdai Westbrook : Students for Sensible Drug Policy and the ACLU are challenging a draconian Education Department rule that blocks student drug offenders from receiving federal aid.
Reviews
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book
Keeping It Real
Jackson Lears : In Songs of Experience, Martin Jay examines modern debates over the relationship between theory and the lived world.
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book
Anatomy of a Murder
David Bradley : Cynthia Carr's Our Town seeks to uncover hidden truths about a 1930 lynching in small-town Indiana. But Carr fails to break the code of silence that many of the town's inhabitants, including her grandparents, took to the grave.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
On John McCain's Willingness to Speak at Jerry Falwell's University
Calvin Trillin : What it takes to make him change his mind.
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DIARY OF A MAD LAW PROFESSOR
Felonious Intent
Patricia J. Williams : The prosecution of an 8-year-old in New York for wrongful homicide in a school bus accident invokes the "wild child" hysteria of the Central Park jogger case.
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
Time Is on Their Side
Eric Alterman : Time magazine's new managing editor has inherited an editorial model that's under siege and a pundit lineup that tilts squarely to the right.
Web
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Moral Compass
Galbraith Remembered
Richard Parker : At a memorial service for John Kenneth Galbraith at Harvard University's Memorial Church, economist and biographer Richard Parker eulogized an extraordinary man.
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Road to Perdition
Morton Mintz : A nearly forgotten criminal conspiracy by GM, Firestone and Chevron shut down the nation's municipal railways, replacing them with gas-guzzling bus lines, paving the way for global warming and for our energy crisis.
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TruthDig
Kenny Boy's Connections
Robert Scheer : Despite the President's denials, connections between Enron's corporate criminals and the Bush family inner circle are are deeply embedded in the policies of two Administrations.
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Moral Compass
Leap into the Fray
Victor Navasky : The new generation of academics and scholars is challenged to join, elevate and improve the national conversation and persuade the public to come back to politics.
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Howl
Mexico's Exodus: Blip on the Radar?
Nicholas von Hoffman : Declining birthrates in Mexico give the lie to American fears of an influx of immigrants. As birthrates plummet around the world, America's real problem may be a shortage, not a surfeit, of guest workers.
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Emerging Writers
The Political Power of Words
Dean Powers : The X factor in the midterm elections may well be the English language--specifically, the biased terminology that seeps unchallenged into mainstream media political coverage.
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MySpace, MyPolitics
Ari Melber : The massive immigrant rights protests drew participants via technology-driven organizing, from text messaging to social networks like MySpace. Is this the shape of political campaigns to come?
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Southpaw
Ricky Williams Dreams of Canada
Dave Zirin : Former Heisman trophy winner and ganja-smoking peacenik Ricky Williams is contemplating the sweet life in the Canadian Football League. Here's hoping he finds it.
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Sorel's People
Richard Lingeman : In Literary Lives, caricaturist Edward Sorel tells all and then some about giants like Yeats, Proust, Hellman and Jung within the humble frame of a comic strip.
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Emerging Writers
Big Brother Bugs Portland
Simon Maxwell Apter : Why does the FBI find it necessary to spy on Portand's City Council?
Cover photo-illustration by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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