The Obama Effect The Obama Effect
Have the dreams of the civil rights movement been realized or deferred?
Dec 13, 2007 / Feature / Gary Younge
Ho-Ho-Holiday Donations, 2007 Edition Ho-Ho-Holiday Donations, 2007 Edition
Multiply your good fortune by giving generously to these progressive organizations and charities.
Dec 13, 2007 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Congress to CIA Torturers: ‘If Only You’d Told Us’ Congress to CIA Torturers: ‘If Only You’d Told Us’
The agency's secret destruction of tapes is a parable of the futility of oversight.
Dec 13, 2007 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Locked Up in Limbo Locked Up in Limbo
In California, sex offenders face the specter of incarceration without end.
Dec 13, 2007 / Laura Mansnerus
Post-Annapolis Pitfalls Post-Annapolis Pitfalls
Washington must abandon the fantasy that an Israeli-Palestinian agreement can be reached in the face of deep divisions between Fatah and Hamas, the United States and Israel have f...
Dec 13, 2007 / Henry Siegman
Rights of Passage Rights of Passage
How can momentum be restored to the struggle for human rights? Begin by drawing the world's religions into the conversation.
Dec 13, 2007 / Eyal Press
Playing the God Card Playing the God Card
It's not Romney's Mormon faith that threatens the core values of a secular nation. It's Huckabee's messianic candidacy.
Dec 13, 2007 / John Nichols
Noted. Noted.
The Drum Major Institute talks politics with big-city mayors; what do we say when we talk about torture?
Dec 13, 2007 / The Editors
Crime and Cover-Up Crime and Cover-Up
The CIA tapes' destruction and violation of anti-torture statutes they recorded require a special prosecutor.
Dec 13, 2007 / The Editors
Subprime Politics Subprime Politics
Keep people in their homes and start re-regulating the banking industry to end the conflicts of interest that fueled the debacle.
Dec 13, 2007 / The Editors