France à Droite France à Droite

Under Sarkozy, France will lose much égalité and fraternité. Let's hope liberté is not diminished as well.

May 10, 2007 / André Schiffrin

Laboring for Edwards Laboring for Edwards

John Edwards is meticulously laying the groundwork to become the candidate of organized labor, insisting prosperity can expand only if unionization expands.

May 10, 2007 / Marc Cooper

Invisible America Invisible America

Fifty-three years after Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court will rule on two cases that will decide the future of school integration.

May 10, 2007 / Patricia J. Williams

Morality Gets a Massage Morality Gets a Massage

Randall Tobias isn't the first abstinence czar to run afoul of the moral agenda he promoted. It's time Congress stopped this dangerous crusade.

May 10, 2007 / The Editors

This Is What Democracy Looks Like? This Is What Democracy Looks Like?

Iraqi parliament votes to end the occupation

The American public favors withdrawal

The cause of Democracy apparently demands we ignore both.

May 10, 2007 / Chris Hayes

The Real Mother’s Day Tradition The Real Mother’s Day Tradition

"Arise then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be of water or of tears!" So begins the original Mother's Day proclamation of 1870, written ...

May 10, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Blair Bows Out Blair Bows Out

The process of the handover from Prime Minister Tony Blair toChancellor Gordon Brown has long been scripted. Act I began with the thrashedlocal elections--Labour lost councils all ...

May 10, 2007 / Gary Younge

Scary Movie: Captivity’s Ad Campaign Scary Movie: Captivity’s Ad Campaign

I joined the protest of a terribly offensive poster for the horror flick Captivity, which resulted in its being taken down. Was that a good thing?

May 9, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Annabelle Gurwitch

Will Justice Be Served in NYC? Will Justice Be Served in NYC?

So much City Council legislation -- whether in New York or other cities -- is essentially performance art, even if its intentions are progressive. You know the genre -- banning the...

May 9, 2007 / Liza Featherstone

BBC Bashing BBC Bashing

What's more surprising about Robin Aitken's diatribe Can We Trust the BBC? is that it's taken this long for some disgruntled ex-BBC type to write a apoplectic rant tarring his form...

May 9, 2007 / Lakshmi Chaudhry