Mark Felt’s Other Legacy

Mark Felt is one of only two people who has been prosecuted for COINTELPRO crimes.

Dan Berger

Taking Heat for Sweatshops

Despite its efforts to silence whistleblowers, Wal-Mart remains under fire for abusing its workers.

Liza Featherstone

Sam Brownback’s Blind Ambition Tour

The Kansas senator has been grandstanding for the right for years, and now he has his sights set on the White House.

Max Blumenthal

Bolivia’s Battle of Wills

Despite elections now expected this summer, Bolivia remains locked in a political stalemate, with core issues unresolved and the path forward unclear.

Christian Parenti

A Matter of Opinion Audio

Victor Navasky and E.L. Doctorow discuss the importance of dissenting publications.

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Can a City Be Progressive?

An effective progressive movement must start in cities.

Peter Dreier

How Deep Throat Fooled the FBI

During the most heated moments of the Watergate scandal, W. Mark Felt was assigned the mission of unearthing and stopping Deep Throat.

David Corn and Jeff Goldberg

Happy 100th, IWW

On June 27, 1905, William "Big Bill" Haywood exhorted an audience in Chicago's Brand Hall to organize one big union, seize the means of production and emancipate the workers of the world "from

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Letter From Ground Zero

When the truth comes out in Iraq, America's grotesque misadventure there will be brought to a close.

Jonathan Schell

Whistleblowing: My Story

Government employees should never have to choose between their conscience and their career.

Jesselyn Radack

MIA: News of Prison Toll

The media has ignored prisoner deaths suffered at American hands.

Todd Gitlin

Sins & the Citi

Where is the public's outrage over corruption in US finance and banking?

William Greider

The War Debate Reopens

America has reached a turning point in its debate on the Iraq war.

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Up in Smoke

Roberto Parada

Even Bush’s GOP Allies Are Breaking Ranks

Several Republicans in Congress now recognize that the situation in Iraq is only getting worse.

Robert Scheer

Clinton Agonistes

John Harris's history of the Clinton Administration deserves much of the praise it has received, but it ignores the media's anti-Clinton animus.

Eric Alterman

Just a Theory

Recently it seems discussion on culture goes well beyond careless epithet and into a land with no common ground.

Patricia J. Williams

Cheney Says Iraq Insurgents Are in ‘Last Throes’

A poem on Dick Cheney and his penchant for war.

Calvin Trillin

Born Again in the USA

In his latest album, Bruce Springsteen reaches for the Good Book.

Jody Rosen

Tug of War

The reality of America's role in the cold war was far more complex and ambiguous than historical accounts suggest.

Andrew J. Bacevich

Clinton Agonistes

John Harris's history of the Clinton Administration deserves much of the praise it has received, but it ignores the media's anti-Clinton animus.

Eric Alterman

A Fistful of Dollars

She was a saint, Renée Zellweger, with her brave chin all a-tremble, never saying a harsh word to her husband no matter how the little ones wheezed and shivered in the cruel, cruel cold,

Stuart Klawans

The Principle of Hope

The death of Lebanese journalist Samir Kassir is a terrible blow to the cause of Arab freedom.

Adam Shatz

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