The Fight for the Future of Music The Fight for the Future of Music

America stands on the cusp of a sweeping set of shifts in federal media ownership rules that could dramatically alter the nature of what we see, hear and read, warns Federal Commi...

Jan 6, 2003 / John Nichols

Death Penalty Talking Points Death Penalty Talking Points

While the death penalty is legal in most of the US, executions are increasingly taking place only in the South, according to the end-of-the-year report from the Death Penalty Inf...

Jan 2, 2003 / Peter Rothberg

No Room for Logic in Bush Foreign Policy No Room for Logic in Bush Foreign Policy

Darn, but those weapons of mass destruction keep turning up in the wrong places.

Jan 2, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer

The Other War The Other War

Mattie White remembers July 23, 1999, as the day her life was turned upside down.

Dec 24, 2002 / Feature / Silja J.A. Talvi

Is She Dr. Laura or Dr. Strange Love? Is She Dr. Laura or Dr. Strange Love?

Some family values.

Dec 24, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Cell Phones, HMOs and Single-Payer Cell Phones, HMOs and Single-Payer

Dr. Marc answers readers' question every other week. To send a query, click here.

Dec 24, 2002 / Column / Dr. Marc Siegel

‘The Politics Were on the Street’ ‘The Politics Were on the Street’

The punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s seized the power of rock-and-roll back from the corporate conglomerates that had warped the music into a flabby, over-produced, stadium-ro...

Dec 23, 2002 / John Nichols

On Not Running For the Presidency On Not Running For the Presidency

We now feel warm toward Albert Gore,
Who will not run in aughty-four.
Most candidates, I must admit,
Seem at their best the day they quit.

Dec 23, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The Power of Music The Power of Music

Talking With Eddie Vedder, Boots Riley, Amy Ray, Carrie Brownstein, Tom Morello

Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ann Powers

Desert Island Discs Desert Island Discs

Picture this: you're stranded on a desert island with nothing to comfort you but sand, sun and, miraculously, the solar-powered sound system that washed up with you.