MoveOn Weighs Dem Endorsements

The netroots powerhouse is surveying its members on whom to support. It's a test of the candidates and of the progressive movement.

Ari Melber

Memo: Where Do the Democrats Stand on Iraq?

A deep look into how the candidates propose to bring the troops home and deal with the continuing military dilemma.

Tom Hayden

A Torch Passed

With a veritable Mount Rushmore of Kennedy faces arrayed behind him, Barack Obama received powerful symbolic and political support from the icons of the liberal establishment.

Amy Alexander

Right to Strike Imperiled in Cananea

If the Mexican government and Grupo Mexico succeed in smashing a miners' strike, the reverberations will be felt even across the US border.

David Bacon

Letter From Vietnam

As Vietnam becomes a player in world trade, its human rights record and treatment of dissidents come under increased scrutiny. The world must do more.

Dustin Roasa

Fairy Tales

At her mentor's funeral, Cynthia Kang revisits ghosts of the past, receives a cryptic message, and watches the detectives watching her.

Gary Phillips

Progressive Democratic Challengers

With the Congressional race under way, the essential question is: will the Democrats be more progressive post-Bush?

John Nichols

They Like Mike

Is America ready for a nonideological problem solver with liberal views on gun control, gay rights and abortion?

Micah L. Sifry

Dems Get New Tools, New Talent

Democratic campaigns are refining the art of reaching more people.

Matt Stoller

Grassroots Reseeded: Suites vs. Streets

This could be the year that Democrats finally let the people play a role in politics.

Laura Flanders

Justified Violence: Breaking the Gaza Wall

The breaking of the Gaza-Egypt wall is clearly a good thing, and a rare example of the moral--and also wise--use of violence in politics.

Allan Nairn

Bush’s War of All Against All

A leader who waged war with impunity shouldn't be surprised to someday be called to account for his actions.

Allan Nairn

Endorsing Obama

The movement he's inspired holds the promise of a new cycle of activism, reform and fresh thinking. So I will support him through the inevitable storms ahead.

Tom Hayden

Black Women Talk Barack

It's like one big family squabble among feminists, activists and post-civil-rights-era voters.

Amy Alexander

Subprime Obama

He should stiffen his meager bailout plan and call for a moratorium on foreclosures and serious government intervention.

Max Fraser

Noted.

Arguing Indiana's voter ID law; counting Bush's Iraq lies; remembering Chile's truth-teller, Patricia Verdugo.

the Editors

Viva la Restauración

Latinos supported Hillary Clinton in the chaotic Nevada caucuses, but how much do her policies support them?

Chris Hayes

The Panic of 2008

A humane and sensible stimulus package would put money in the hands of those who need it.

the Editors

How I Lost My Job and Found Happiness

Edward Sorel

Obama, Clinton and the War

Ted Kennedy's endorsement of Barack Obama sheds some needed light on Hillary's hawkishness and the real differences between the candidates.

Robert Scheer

Some Things Even Obama Can’t Transcend

Before we can talk sensibly about transcending difference, we must first transform the conditions that give these differences meaning.

Gary Younge

Wall Street to Daily Papers: ‘Drop Dead’

How can newspapers survive financial meltdown if they surrender to a culture of defeat?

Eric Alterman

Writers’ Strike Spreads…

Steve Brodner

One Possible Explanation for Surveys Showing That Rudy Giuliani May Not Win His Own State

O Captain, not my Captain.

Calvin Trillin

An Unmonumental Grimace

Taking stock of the new New Museum.

Barry Schwabsky

Rambling Man

A modern-day Rip Van Winkle challenges the view that Europeans are too wrapped up in their past to move on.

Mark Mazower

Weather Reports

The radical individualism of the New Left was hardly un-American. A batch of new memoirs show the Weatherman followed a distinctly American tradition.

Maurice Isserman

A Test of Poetry

More than any other American poet, George Oppen begs us to consider the elusive relationship between aesthetic and political responsibilities.

James Longenbach

Letters

Eric Alterman and Alan Dershowitz exchange views on who speaks for American Jews; readers debate endorsements and praise Stuart Klawans's review of There Will Be Blood.

Eric Alterman and Our Readers