Israel Turns 60 Israel Turns 60
Israeli writers and intellectuals look at their nation and its problems in a more nuanced and realistic way than most Americans.
Sep 3, 2008 / Feature / Eric Alterman
Sarah Palin’s Frontier Justice Sarah Palin’s Frontier Justice
Her appeal to a certain sector of the electorate lies in her willingness to take the law in her own hands--and use public power as a personal weapon.
Sep 3, 2008 / Feature / Patricia J. Williams
Our Man Countryman Our Man Countryman
This Week: Ex-black ops agent Dieter Countryman comes to terms with a life misspent as the very dogs of chaos he helped unleash come back to bite him.
Sep 3, 2008 / Feature / Gary Phillips
The Problem Is Empire The Problem Is Empire
The challenge to the peace movement is not to liberalize the empire; the task is to peacefully and steadily bring it to an end--and make democracy safe for the world.
Sep 2, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Tom Hayden
Blue-Collar Republicans Blue-Collar Republicans
The Republican Party has set itself firmly against the agenda of the labor movement. So to observe Labor Day in St. Paul was a strange experience indeed.
Sep 2, 2008 / Feature / Chris Hayes
How to Cover the GOP How to Cover the GOP
Since they got all the megastories wrong in Denver, here's a primer for the media horde as they descend on St. Paul.
Aug 29, 2008 / Feature / Eric Alterman
Labor’s New Push Labor’s New Push
Meet Working America: a self-declared mass organization with a working-class base and a strategy to win.
Aug 29, 2008 / Feature / David Moberg
Diary of an Obama Delegate Diary of an Obama Delegate
I came to the DNC as a middle-aged female Obama delegate eager to make peace with Hillary women, and I did not get off to a good start.
Aug 28, 2008 / Feature / Cynthia Baughman
Apocalypse Later Apocalypse Later
From 2016, a futurist looks back on 2008, where the seeds of the slow-mo apolcalypse now consuming the planet were planted.
Aug 28, 2008 / Feature / John Feffer
‘Zek’ Freedom Brings Back Memories of Stalin’s Russia ‘Zek’ Freedom Brings Back Memories of Stalin’s Russia
The freeing of the "zeks" confronted Russia with living memories of the Terror.
Aug 27, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Stephen F. Cohen