TransAfrica’s Tribute to Ruby Dee TransAfrica’s Tribute to Ruby Dee
"She is our elder and our sister and our daughter. We celebrate her as we celebrate the moon: our guide through the dark, dark night."
Dec 5, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Walter Mosley
Everybody Look What’s Going Down Everybody Look What’s Going Down
Recently, I wrote about the No Nukes crowd fighting to remove $50 billion worth of nuclear industry subsidies from landmark energy legislation. Indeed, an upwelling of grassroots ...
Dec 5, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Shame on Obama and Clinton for Skipping Peru Trade Vote Shame on Obama and Clinton for Skipping Peru Trade Vote
New York Senator Hillary Clinton and Illinois Senator Barack Obama desperately want Democrats to believe that they are serious about serving the American people as the next presid...
Dec 4, 2007 / John Nichols
Renewing the Cold War Renewing the Cold War
This past June, Katrina vanden Heuvel blogged about President Bush's plan to deploy a proposed a missile defense system in both the Czech Republic and Poland despite the reluctanc...
Dec 4, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Civic Agriculture = Sane Housing Civic Agriculture = Sane Housing
There is an alternative to unhealthy eating and irresponsible development schemes.
Dec 3, 2007 / Feature / Nevin Cohen
Hillary, Obama and Healthcare Hillary, Obama and Healthcare
With Iowa one month away, the almost obsessive horserace coverage is in full swing and, as it has for much of campaign, it shortchanges the substance of the serious and urgent iss...
Dec 3, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush Buddy Putin Trumps Democracy, Chavez Embraces It Bush Buddy Putin Trumps Democracy, Chavez Embraces It
So how's George Bush's campaign for to spread his version of "democracy" going? The results are in from the American president's favorite former superpower, the Russian Federatio...
Dec 3, 2007 / John Nichols
Heartland Forum Tackles the Real Issues Heartland Forum Tackles the Real Issues
Pushing past TV's divisive debate format, a unusual forum in Iowa Saturday pushed Democratic candidates to really explain where they stand on pollution, immigration and predatory l...
Dec 3, 2007 / Feature / Chris Hayes
McMansions Meet the Mortgage Crisis McMansions Meet the Mortgage Crisis
Homeowners in gated communities now facing foreclosure are learning there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.
Dec 3, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich
Incident in Rochester, Challenge for Clinton Incident in Rochester, Challenge for Clinton
The problem for Hillary Clinton that arises from the incident in which a disturbed man invaded her Rochester, New Hampshire, campaign headquarters is not any kind of physical thre...
Dec 2, 2007 / John Nichols