Life as a Progressive Legislator

The lesson of fifteen years is that real change requires a people's movement.

Paul G. Pinsky

Battle of the Books in Palestine

Unfounded attacks on school textbooks have had disastrous consequences.

Fouad Moughrabi

Movin’ on Up with the Federalist Society

How the right rears its young lawyers.

Amy Bach

The Liberal Riposte

Liberal groups are also concentrating on influencing the next generation of legal scholars.

Amy Bach

A Growing Opposition

While to some the United States might seem to be united in its thirst for vengeance, there's a burgeoning antiwar movement that belies the war rhetoric.

John Nichols

Dust-up in the Dustbowl

Oklahoma pushes yet again for 'right to work' legislation.

John Nichols

Nuclear Safety

US nuclear facilities could be targets of the next terrorist attacks.

Matt Bivens

A Hole in the World

The September 11 attacks show us our vulnerability—an especially terrifying prospect when paired with the threat of nuclear proliferation.

Jonathan Schell

Terror in America

The attacks on the Twin Towers will be called 'mindless terrorism,' but the blowback the United States is experiencing is far from mindless.

Robert Fisk

A Great Wound

The battleground is now on US soil—not just against the terrorists, but those who would highjack the terrible event and twist it to their own ends.

the Editors

The Dark Smoke

The military and the national security bureaucracy are quick to use the terror attacks to demand more funds and discretion.

David Corn

Reflections on Durban

The United States cannot dodge its responsibility by withdrawing from the World Conference Against Racism.

Dennis Brutus and Ben Cashdan

Game Over

The attacks on the Twin Towers show us an ugly truth too long believed in: that of the safe, antiseptic war.

Naomi Klein

The End of Innocence

While downtown still smolders, and the country gears up for a likely war against the perpetrators of the September 11 attacks, we must keep in mind that state-sanctioned terrorism, too, should be rooted out.

Joel Rogers

A Political Solution Is Required

While the US looks upon Pakistan for help in its new 'war on terror,' lessons from the past teach us that the alliance can have sinister repercussions.

Tariq Ali

Pax Americana

Although the terrorist attacks are—and will continue to be for some time—at the forefront of the world's attention, we must remember that the struggles of yesterday still go on.

Patricia J. Williams

Faceless Cowards?

The September 11 terrorist attacks are already being spun by Washington to fit into its prearranged playbook—the usual language and the usual suspects are already being bandied about.

Alexander Cockburn

The Not Obviously Insane Network

CNN, regularly derided as 'liberal' by conservative commentators, is only liberal if that word stands for 'somewhat sane.'

Eric Alterman

Destined to Shadowbox With the Devil

In a war on terror, there is no victory, for terrorism will always exist. It can be contained, but not eradicated.

Robert Scheer

Policing the Color Line

Two books on modern policing and the racial dynamics that go with it.

Christian Parenti

Murder of the Middle Class

Patricia Highsmith was a master writer of crime and suspense.

Neil Gordon

Dick (Nixon) Heads

Arthur C. Danto writes about the career of Philip Guston.

Arthur C. Danto

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