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How an antiwar initiative is turning into a way to strengthen democracy.

From across the country, friends share stories of protest.

History was made on February 27 when for the first time Big Labor
formally broke with a sitting President's war policy.

Who says there's nothing new under the sun?

This was intended to be a sweet little prewar column about an artist I
admire, Rosanne Cash.

The thirteen self-declared "citizen weapons
inspectors" marching down a rain-swept road just
outside Baltimore knew they weren't going to be
allowed inside the US military's Aberdeen Proving

Who's the hack? I nominate The New Yorker's Jeffrey Goldberg.
He's the new Remington, though without the artistic talent.

Optimism and antiwar fervor were both in evidence at the World Social Forum.

So this is what it feels like to be in the political mainstream.

February 15, 2003, the day 10 million or so people in hundreds of cities
on every continent demonstrated against war in Iraq, will go down in
history as the first time that the people of the wo