Bolivia’s Protests of Hope

The latest installment in the battle over privatization in Latin America.

Jimmy Langman

The Aiken Solution Lives!

The recent Senate roll call was a decisive rebuke to our warrior President and one that will be understood eventually as having pivotal meaning.

William Greider

The MTA, Bus Depots and Race

Bus depots are one of many environmental culprits that contribute to health problems in poor communities of color.

Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

Needed: A Rural Strategy

Democrats can win the farm and small-town vote--if they pay serious attention.

John Nichols

A High-Level Food Fight

The so-called clash of civilizations is not limited to militant Islam against superpower Christianity, nor to wealthy nations opposed by a multitude of poor ones.

William Greider

A Good Farmer

Making the connections between food, family and the health of the earth.

Barbara Kingsolver

In Fact…

IRAN'S HOPE

the Editors

You Protest, You Pay

It started with Congress, which in 1998 voted to deny federal financial aid to students with minor drug convictions like marijuana possession. Now the use of financial aid as an incentive to cu

Jamie Pietras

Identity Thieves

The Federal Trade Commission has acknowledged that the epidemic of identity theft claimed almost 10 million victims last year.

Jamie Court

A Healthy Debate

John Nichols

Dying for AIDS Drugs

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Esther Kaplan

Is Syria Next?

Shortly after 9/11, the government received an extraordinary gift of hundreds of files on Al Qaeda, crucial data on the activities of radical Islamist cells throughout the Middle East and Europ

the Editors

Just ‘Frat-Boy Behavior’?

California's opportunist attorney general looks past the allegations against Schwarzenegger.

Robert Scheer

Abrams and Novak and Rove? Oh My!

Even though the Joseph Wilson affair has convulsed the capital for many weeks, much of what makes it important is still ignored.

Eric Alterman

Is the Pope Crazy?

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Katha Pollitt

Just Speculating

So Limbaugh has been hooked on pills,
While Bennett's hooked on slots.
Do all the right-wing morals police
Have copybooks with blots?

Calvin Trillin

Man’s Best Friend

As Stevie Smith once wrote, while impersonating God, "I will forgive you everything,/But what you have done to my Dogs/I will not forgive." About Dan Rhodes's novel Timoleon Vieta Come Home<