Getting Conyers His Conscience Back Getting Conyers His Conscience Back
Ouch. It hurts to listen to. This was Representative John Conyers,speaking to a troops-out demonstration this past January in WashingtonDC: "George Bush has a habit of firing mil...
Feb 23, 2007 / The Nation
Justice Perverted Justice Perverted
Unless the Supreme Court or Congress intervenes, an appeals court ruling this week on Guantánamo detainees opens the door to a global detention system where people can be mo...
Feb 22, 2007 / Feature / Jonathan Hafetz
In Russia’s Blogosphere, Anything Goes In Russia’s Blogosphere, Anything Goes
Russian blogs are flourishing as alternative media and launchpads for an emerging civil society, but corruption and government manipulation are flourishing as well.
Feb 22, 2007 / Feature / Anna G. Arutunyan
What Really Matters What Really Matters
Candidates and the media should focus on the real issues facing this country: ending the war and bringing our troops home.
Feb 22, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Fox Attacks Fox Attacks
Guerrilla documentarian Robert Greenwald and his Brave New Films team have been in the forefront of pioneering innovative ways to fund, produce and distribute progressive and time...
Feb 22, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
L’Étranger L’Étranger
The media have fashioned an impossible portrait of Barack Obama: an American cleansed of the baggage of racism and slavery.
Feb 22, 2007 / Feature / Patricia J. Williams
The Strains of Inspiration The Strains of Inspiration
The Friendship describes how Wordsworth and Coleridge's fiercely uneven relationship affected their lives and work.
Feb 22, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Rée
Democracy Protection Act Democracy Protection Act
Here's a list of actions Congress must take to help the nation recover from the Bush Administration's assaults on our liberties and values.
Feb 22, 2007 / Feature / Mark Green
Pro-Immigrant Populism Pro-Immigrant Populism
Immigration reform should be shaped by progressive values that prize the dignity of all workers.
Feb 22, 2007 / Andrea Batista Schlesinger
Liberalism’s Lost Libretto Liberalism’s Lost Libretto
Tom Stoppard's epic Coast of Utopia speaks as much to the state of the American left as it does to the roots of Russia's revolution.
Feb 22, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman