New York’s Real Transit Crisis New York’s Real Transit Crisis
New York City's first transit strike in a quarter-century resulted in an agreement that both the union leadership and the MTA insist is the greatest contract ever--but that the uni...
Dec 30, 2005 / Feature / Robert Fitch
A Year of Sweet Victories A Year of Sweet Victories
In the dark days after the election of 2004, the mainstream media was touting the making of a permanent rightward shift, and the progressive community was deeply deflated. It was...
Dec 30, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Language of the Heart Language of the Heart
We need to learn a new language of peace and love that we can speak, even shout, to our leaders who only understand the language of greed and murder.
Dec 29, 2005 / Cindy Sheehan
Dr. Germ and Mrs. Anthrax Set Free Dr. Germ and Mrs. Anthrax Set Free
Why is it not bigger news that these infamous Iraqi scientists have been quietly released from imprisonment in Iraq without any charges being brought by their US captors?
Dec 28, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
The Most Valuable Progressives of 2005 The Most Valuable Progressives of 2005
It is hard to complain about a year that began with George Bush bragging about spending the "political capital" he felt he had earned with his dubious reelection and ended with th...
Dec 28, 2005 / John Nichols
The I-Word is Gaining Ground–UPDATED The I-Word is Gaining Ground–UPDATED
In 1998, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, currently under indictment on corruption charges, proclaimed: "This nation sits at a crossroads. One direction points to the higher road of...
Dec 27, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush the Liberal? Bush the Liberal?
From www.davidcorn.com:
I thought that Bush administration officials believed in narrow and restrained interp...
Dec 26, 2005 / David Corn
Short Peace In A Terrible War Short Peace In A Terrible War
Alfred Anderson died last month at the very ripe old age of 109. But it was not the Scotsman's many years that made him remarkable at the end of his long life. It was that, to hi...
Dec 24, 2005 / John Nichols
Bush Backs Down on Patriot Act Bush Backs Down on Patriot Act
U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, who four years ago stood alone in the Senate to defend the Bill of Rights, finished this year by scoring a dramatic win in his fight to preserve civil lib...
Dec 22, 2005 / John Nichols
A Fight for the Future A Fight for the Future
New York City transit workers, now back on the job after a two-day strike, are fighting for the rights of future workers and against the lie that abstract, neutral economic necessi...
Dec 22, 2005 / Feature / Joshua Freeman