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
Sotomayor’s Seditious Syllables Sotomayor’s Seditious Syllables
Of all the comically desperate attacks on Supreme Court justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor last week--she belongs to the "Latino KKK" (Tom Tancredo), she's a "Hispanic ...
Jun 1, 2009 / Leslie Savan
A Killing in Kansas A Killing in Kansas
Prochoice groups declared Monday a national day of mourning following the murder of Dr. George Tiller, a provider of late-term abortions who was long a target of antiabortion zealo...
May 31, 2009 / Feature / John Nichols