Countering Anti-Choice Terrorism Countering Anti-Choice Terrorism
I believe the murder of George Tiller was an act of domestic terrorism whose aim was not only to assassinate a single man, but also to frighten a generation of doctors and to shame...
Jun 2, 2009 / Melissa Harris-Perry
George Tiller: What If? George Tiller: What If?
When a person who has been targeted before is murdered, as Dr. George Tiller was, there are a lot of what ifs. What if, back in the 1990s, after the first atte...
Jun 2, 2009 / Laura Flanders
The Rape of Gaza The Rape of Gaza
How would you feel if you found out that an American school, paid for with your tax dollars, was bombed and completely destroyed by a US ally? This happened in Gaza just a few mont...
Jun 2, 2009 / Roane Carey
George Tiller: Casualty of the Culture Wars? George Tiller: Casualty of the Culture Wars?
It's too early to say whether the murder of a Kansas abortion provider will trigger another wave of a type of violence last seen in the 1990s. It is not too early to be struck by t...
Jun 1, 2009 / Eyal Press
Obama’s Organizing Chief: Supporters Push Sotomayor, Health Care Obama’s Organizing Chief: Supporters Push Sotomayor, Health Care
Speaking to a liberal summit in Washington today, Organizing for America director Mitch Stewart outlined how the DNC is tapping Obama's campaign network to advance the administrati...
Jun 1, 2009 / Ari Melber
The ‘New GM’: Layoffs, Factory Closings, Offshoring The ‘New GM’: Layoffs, Factory Closings, Offshoring
The trouble with the whole "Nixon goes to China" theory -- which is grounded in the calculus that big progress is made when a politician goes against type to address a seemingly i...
Jun 1, 2009 / John Nichols
Corruption and Careful Reading: A Response to George Will Corruption and Careful Reading: A Response to George Will
Last week, George Will spent his Sunday column in the Washington Post attacking an article I recently wrote in the Cornell Law Review. Of course it is gratifying to have an academi...
Jun 1, 2009 / Zephyr Teachout
Obama’s Cairo Speech Obama’s Cairo Speech
It's a mistake to see President Obama's June 4 speech in Cairo merely as a repudiation of George W. Bush's wrecking-ball approach to the Middle East. It's certainly true that dur...
Jun 1, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Eduardo Galeano: Stories of Almost Everyone Eduardo Galeano: Stories of Almost Everyone
Why are so many people so scared? Maybe it's because of our rulers' enormous 'fear machine.' So says Eduardo Galeano, in this rare interview.
Jun 1, 2009 / GRITtv
George Tiller’s Assassination George Tiller’s Assassination
Dr. George Tiller, an outspoken advocate for abortion rights and one of the few late-term abortion providers in the country, was shot dead in church yesterday morning in Wichita, ...
Jun 1, 2009 / Peter Rothberg