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The night after the Bush Administration announced its refusal to grant the United Nations Population Fund $34 million dollars, Jane Roberts was so outraged she couldn’t sleep.

How many of you believe that crucial healthcare issues are falsely represented by corporate America for profit or political advantage?

The year since Congress passed the USA Patriot Act has brought an ever-growing enemies list from our nation’s thought police.

For some of progressive cast, there was at least one thin silver lining to Tuesday’s crushing Democratic defeat: For the first time in decades, Jesse Helms wasn’t running, and come January he’ll

As Congress squabbles over how and whether to revamp the welfare law, one thing is clear: The Bush Administration has marriage on the mind. The Administration has already promised to make marri

How quickly the joy fades.

TIGER FOR RIGHTS

Neoliberalism lost the elections in Brazil by a landslide on October 27, when 52.8 million people rested their hopes on Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva to revitalize the national economy and

The Republican wave that swept the country seemed to crash and recede right at the California border, but only barely.

It’s hard to beat something with nothing.

George W. Bush may have lost the 2000 election, but he won the 2002 election–with a good deal of help from Democrats, who took a dream scenario and turned it into a political nightmare.

The President, let’s understand, won a historic victory by committing politics–shrewd, aggressive, old-fashioned, take-no-prisoners politics–while the opposition party did the opposite.

To placate its powerful allies on the extreme right, the Bush Administration is once again playing political games with the fate of our planet.

(With apologies, once again, to Stephen Sondheim and his demon barber)

The more things change…

Dear Christopher,

It’s rude of me to speak of Todd Haynes’s new picture as if it were a symptom; but then, he’s the one who’s always consulting doctors.

Michael Bellesiles, the historian accused of research falsification in his book Arming America, a study of gun culture, announced on October 25 that he was resigning from Emory Universit

If you’ve never set foot in the likes of Club Paradise, Scarlett’s, New York Dolls, Secrets, Peepers or the boldly named Booby Trap (yes, it does exist), your image of a strip club might be bor

As truth-tellers, journalists remain the undocumented aliens of the knowledge industry, operating in an off-the-books epistemological economy apart from philosophers and scientists on one side

On January 20, 1995, Bruno Jordan is gunned down in a parking lot in El Paso, Texas, in what appears to be a botched carjacking.