Can We Turn Pain to Power in the Congo? Can We Turn Pain to Power in the Congo?
More than 5 million have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and violence against women is so common that it's been called femicide-genocide. What can we here in the U...
Oct 21, 2009 / GRITtv
The Right Goes Viral The Right Goes Viral
A new site lets you rate teachers, review textbooks and "raise awareness about America’s slide to communism."
Oct 21, 2009 / StudentNation / Francis Reynolds
Memo to Hillary: Friends Don’t Let Friends ♥ Fascists Memo to Hillary: Friends Don’t Let Friends ♥ Fascists
How much should it matter to Americans that David Cameron, who will probably become the Prime Minister of Britain in May, recently took his party out of the main center-right group...
Oct 21, 2009 / D.D. Guttenplan
Zooming In on the Year’s Biggest Hoax Zooming In on the Year’s Biggest Hoax
If we could get one of the banking lobbyists to float a duct-taped flying saucer balloon, Wolf Blitzer might cover the real hoax.
Oct 21, 2009 / Column / Robert Scheer
A Witness to Total War A Witness to Total War
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the only neutral filmmaker in the country was Julien Bryan. His round-the-clock footage of Warsaw's destruction, assembled in Siege, is now aga...
Oct 21, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Eagan
Pushing the Public Option Pushing the Public Option
It never hurts to get a sexy movie star on board. In this amusing new ad created by MoveOn.org, Heather Graham stars as the Public Option, showing how she'll force the lazy, bloat...
Oct 21, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
That Afghan Runoff Election That Afghan Runoff Election
Don't expect any miracles after President Karzai's decision to accept a second round in the much-disputed Afghan elections. (The latest totals give Karzai 49.7 percent of the vote...
Oct 21, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Obama, Human Rights & the Chutzpah of Conservatives Obama, Human Rights & the Chutzpah of Conservatives
"Does Obama Believe in Human Rights?" asks Bret Stephens in today's Wall Street Journal. According to Stephens, the answer is a resounding "no." Citing Secret...
Oct 20, 2009 / Eyal Press
Public Pensions and Saving Souls Public Pensions and Saving Souls
In recent years, I have written many times of the tremendous public investment deficit facing this country. Our infrastructure is old, and it isn't being replaced or maintained--we...
Oct 20, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Seeing Through the ‘Morehouse Mystique’ Seeing Through the ‘Morehouse Mystique’
New clothing rules reveal Morehouse College's disregard for the T in LGBT.
Oct 20, 2009 / StudentNation / The Nation