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After nearly two years’ absence from politics, Southern California’s most popular progressive politician, Antonio Villaraigosa, is back on the stump.

All social movements need an “outside” strategy and an “inside” strategy. The growing number of people participating in rallies and marches in opposition to President George W.

The day after the World Social Forum dialogues, I visited an encampment of landless people squatting in garbage-wrap tents alongside the road an hour from Porto Alegre.

The debate over the dangers of media monopoly got a lot less theoretical in the last week of January, when Comcast, the nation’s No.

In 1992 Congress passed a law designed to increase the diversity of television programming and to amplify traditionally underrepresented voices.

Like the perennial quest for a “Star Wars” antimissile system, the space shuttle has never been an entirely rational program.

George W.

With up to 200,000 American and British combat troops already stationed in or on their way to the Persian Gulf area, war with Iraq looks increasingly imminent.

George W. Bush’s budget sketches the precipitous decline in our fortunes on his watch, while blurring the full costs of his shameless pander to privilege.

Although the Bush Administration acts as if the war train has already left the station, the antiwar forces continue to grow, and they are mobilizing in large numbers for a worldwide protest on

There is a smoking gun.

I was standing in line for Bowling for Columbine in Brussels not long ago with two writer/editor friends, when a 15-or-so-year-old Belgian boy in front of us turned around and inquired,

So Laura Bush will not, after all, be discussing the works of Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes with a selected group of American poets at the White House on February 12.

(With apologies to Cole Porter, the master, who wrote “My Heart Belongs to Daddy”)

Since few of us at The Nation speak Thai, I’m going to refer to my favorite filmmaker of the month as Joe, which is the name actually used in this country by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

In classical dance, the art of imbalance–the pirouette, the jeté or the mere ethereal, alighted walk that alone makes audiences feel they are getting their money’s worth–is the purview

Last fall, a half-dozen child psychologists lurked around New York’s Yale Club at a convention called “Advertising & Promoting to Kids” in search of new, higher-paying clients.

So Laura Bush will not, after all, be discussing the works of Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes with a selected group of American poets at the White House on February 12.