The Soros Syndrome The Soros Syndrome
George Soros's gift of $100 million to Human Rights Watch doesn't come without strings attached.
Sep 15, 2010 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Franzenfreude, Continued Franzenfreude, Continued
Literary taste-making can't be the one place in America where gendered expectations play no role.
Sep 15, 2010 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Sexy Primary Victories On Both Sides Sexy Primary Victories On Both Sides
Should Democrats spend more time talking about masturbation?
Sep 15, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Slide Show: The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century, Part 3 Slide Show: The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century, Part 3
This is the last of three slide shows detailing the lives and legacies of the fifty most influential progressives of the twentieth century. Here, read Peter Dreier's introduction to the series. Here are the first and second slide shows. Click here to nominate the American progressives you think made the biggest difference in the twentieth century—and the activists, advocates and politicians who are already defining the twenty-first.
Sep 15, 2010 / Photo Essay / Peter Dreier
Can the Grand Old (Tea) Party Win in November? Can the Grand Old (Tea) Party Win in November?
After several big wins for Tea Partisans in Delaware and New York, even Karl Rove sees a blow to GOP prospects for winning the Senate.
Sep 15, 2010 / John Nichols
The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century
The radical ideas of one generation become the common sense of the next. Here, Peter Dreier honors the people who moved progressive ideas in America from the marginal to the mainst...
Sep 15, 2010 / Feature / Peter Dreier
WikiLeaks and Hacktivist Culture WikiLeaks and Hacktivist Culture
WikiLeaks is not the one-off creation of a solitary genius, and with or without Julian Assange, it is not going away.
Sep 15, 2010 / Feature / Peter Ludlow
A Wink and a Con: On W.L. Gresham A Wink and a Con: On W.L. Gresham
In Nightmare Alley, whoever you are, you can always depend on the cruelty of strangers.
Sep 15, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor
Midst Midst
We're all saying the same thing now, scolding the same shadow, not in harmony, but in sync or by turns. Singing that bar about the flock taking off "as if" it were one body— as if this was one body— and who could be listening?
Sep 15, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Rae Armantrout
Unsettled: The Great Plains Unsettled: The Great Plains
The myths and misconceptions that distort the beauty and problems of the Plains.
Sep 15, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Charles Petersen