Moving Forward: Registering Voters, Having Fun Moving Forward: Registering Voters, Having Fun
Forward Montana's Matt Singer discusses how to reach new voters with bunny ears and costumes.
Aug 14, 2008 / The Nation
Spain’s Basketball Team Sullies the Olympics Spain’s Basketball Team Sullies the Olympics
There are some athletes who can't be bought. Some athletes who refuse tobecome commodities, valuing their humanity more than their wallets. Thenthere is the Spanish nationa...
Aug 14, 2008 / Dave Zirin
Resistance Heroes in Tbilisi – In Baghdad, only Terrorists Resistance Heroes in Tbilisi – In Baghdad, only Terrorists
The New York Times ran a feature August 12, on Georgian civilians who've joined the fight against the Russian invasion of that former Soviet republic. The story, by Nicholas Kulish...
Aug 14, 2008 / Laura Flanders
Guilty of Driving a Truck Guilty of Driving a Truck
Salim Hamdam's conviction and short sentence does nothing to repair the damage the Bush Administration has done.
Aug 14, 2008 / David Cole
Obama and the Sisters Obama and the Sisters
His convention speech should draw from the wisdom of black women activists who were the prophets of American democracy.
Aug 14, 2008 / Melissa Harris-Perry
Noted. Noted.
The I-word, back on the table; Fannie Lou Hamer and the Democrats.
Aug 14, 2008 / The Editors
Blood in the Caucasus Blood in the Caucasus
It's time for the US to dissolve its cold war military alliances and develop realistic new policies toward Russia.
Aug 14, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
For a New Economics For a New Economics
The tepid platform Democrats will adopt in Denver isn't a new social contract, but it does go places Republicans never will. Let's hope Obama does better.
Aug 14, 2008 / The Editors
Obama and the Politics of ‘Presumptuousness’ Obama and the Politics of ‘Presumptuousness’
Dana Milbank's coverage of Obama in the Washington Post has become a symbol of a press corps that is almost as the Bush Administration.
Aug 13, 2008 / Column / Eric Alterman
Tested, Tried, Untrue Tested, Tried, Untrue
Critiques of Obama's suitability for the presidency are bookended by astonishingly contradictory stereotypes.
Aug 13, 2008 / Column / Patricia J. Williams