This is What Democracy Looks Like? This is What Democracy Looks Like?
Scroll down to read a letter of response from Steve Paulus, General Manager of NY1. "Celebrity is no substitute for an honest and vigorous debate on a matter as fundamentally imp...
Aug 16, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
California Dreamin’ California Dreamin’
What will happen to me if I get sick or injured and can't pay my bills? On the domestic front, that's a key question on voters' minds as the November elections approach. A poll...
Aug 16, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Old Threats, New Fears Old Threats, New Fears
Investigators have known for a decade about terrorist plots to bring down passenger jets with liquid explosives. So why, all of a sudden, did Bush ban most liquids on flights?
Aug 16, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer
From the Streets to the Polls From the Streets to the Polls
Young, US-born Hispanics who took to the streets to push for immigrant rights are hoping to become a potent political force in the midterm elections and beyond.
Aug 15, 2006 / Feature / Paloma Esquivel
The Hard Edge of Hatred The Hard Edge of Hatred
American white supremacist groups have a long and ugly history of using anxieties over immigration as a recruitment tool. It's happening again, with a vengeance.
Aug 15, 2006 / Feature / Chip Berlet
Life in a Post-Carbon World Life in a Post-Carbon World
If we are to survive and prosper in an oil-short world, we must not only think outside the box--we must get rid of the box. We must abandon the long-held idea that growth is the pa...
Aug 15, 2006 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
Joe’s GOP Allies Joe’s GOP Allies
Joe Lieberman is no longer officially a Democrat in Connecticut. Perhaps that's why so many Republicans are rushing to his side. Karl Rove is calling for support, Dick Cheney is ...
Aug 15, 2006 / The Nation
ABA: Bush Unconstitutional ABA: Bush Unconstitutional
August 8 was a good day for America. It went under the radar, but the American Bar Association's 550-member House of Delegates – the policy-making body that represents 400,000 ...
Aug 15, 2006 / The Nation
Who’s Going to Halt Global Warming? Who’s Going to Halt Global Warming?
Forest fires, droughts and floods are all likely to become more severe and more common if global warming continues to heat the planet at the rate most scientists predict, reports ...
Aug 15, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
Locked and Loaded Locked and Loaded
The Minutemen have been transformed from an extremist "citizen border patrol" to part of the neocon establishment. Has their leader sold out, or bought in?
Aug 15, 2006 / Feature / Susy Buchanan and David Holthouse