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Who Speaks for Human Rights?

A clash between a feminist activist and a former Guantánamo detainee divides the left.

D.D. Guttenplan and Maria Margaronis

Hondurans’ Great Awakening

Despite brutal repression, a bold resistance movement is defying the US-backed coup regime.

Dana Frank

Attack of the Cheneys

They’re baaaaack! Liz, Dick, Bill and the neocons plot to retake Washington.

Matthew Duss

Noted.

John Nichols on Kucinich care; Nicholas Kusnetz on free trade with Colombia.

The Editors

Twisting History in Texas

Texas’s new curriculum teaches students about: women who adhere to traditional gender roles, the Confederacy, some parts of the Constitution, capitalism, the military and religion.

Eric Foner

30 Million Reasons

We support passage of the healthcare legislation, even as we urge the progressive community to begin the struggle immediately to correct its many flaws and improve its protections.

The Editors

A Right to Life for the Living

African-American children face threats to their survival, and African-American women are confronted with challenges to their capacity to parent healthy children. But shaming misinformation campaigns do nothing to address these problems.

Melissa Harris-Perry

Payback for Prochoicers

It’s our turn now–and here’s our list.

Katha Pollitt

Living for the City

There’s more to the legend of Jane Jacobs than her showdown with Robert Moses.
 

Samuel Zipp

Privacy Degree Zero

For all its defenders, privacy remains hard to understand.

Paul Duguid

A Wise Unknowingness

"There is such a thing as a moral atmosphere." So said Violet Gibson, the woman who shot Mussolini.

Brenda Wineapple

A = A

Andrew Joron

Letters

Letters to the editor for the April 5, 2010, issue.

Our Readers

Puzzle No. 816

This puzzle originally appeared in the April 18, 1959, issue.

Frank W. Lewis