Reconciliation and Remembrance Reconciliation and Remembrance
Thirty years ago, Institute for Policy Studies colleagues Ronni Karpen Moffitt and Orlando Letelier were assassinated by agents of the Chilean government. "None of us," IPS co-fou...
Jun 9, 2006 / The Nation
House Rejects Net Neutrality House Rejects Net Neutrality
The First Amendment of the Internet – the governing principle of net neutrality, which prevents telecommunications corporations from rigging the web so it is easier to visit sit...
Jun 9, 2006 / John Nichols
Sweet Victory: Bold Ballot Initiatives Sweet Victory: Bold Ballot Initiatives
Co-written by Sam Graham-Felsen. In the 1990s conservative strategists began to reshape the politicallandscape with an onslaught of ballot initiatives. State by state,Republican...
Jun 9, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Wall Street Doesn’t Like This War Wall Street Doesn’t Like This War
High levels of uncertainty, poor management and an $800 billion expenditure on a venture that has put America's brand at risk all conspire to make the Street pretty skittish about ...
Jun 8, 2006 / Feature / Ken Miller
Boxed In Boxed In
In his new short story collection In Persuasion Nation, absurdist extraordinaire George Saunders offers a surreal depiction of the destruction of individuality through consumer meg...
Jun 8, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Vince Passaro
The Zionist Imagination The Zionist Imagination
As the founding father of the Zionist right, Vladimir Jabotinsky rejected Diaspora existence. Yet in his 1935 novel The Five he tenderly evoked it, offering a glimpse of something ...
Jun 8, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Jacqueline Rose
The Future Is Now The Future Is Now
American politics is on the brink of momentous change. A deep shift in priorities and a surge of new ideas can lead to a new governing order grounded in a determination to give peo...
Jun 8, 2006 / Feature / William Greider
Mr. Obama Goes to Washington Mr. Obama Goes to Washington
Barack Obama talks a great progressive game. But his record so far shows he has a proven ability to mix charisma with deference to the establishment.
Jun 8, 2006 / Feature / David Sirota
How to Build a Farm Team How to Build a Farm Team
The grassroots organization Progressive Majority has a modest ambition: Take over state and national politics by 2010. Welcome to the left-wing conspiracy.
Jun 8, 2006 / Feature / Ruth Conniff
The Turning? The Turning?
Given the scope of conservative ruin, how do progressives seize the day? Start by challenging entrenched interests and ideology, and support candidates and causes while curbing the...
Jun 8, 2006 / Feature / Robert L. Borosage