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Within days of the April incursion of the Israel Defense Forces into Jenin, pro-Palestine activist Thomas Olson received first a trickle, then thousands, of e-mails with menacing subject lines su

While the Bush Administration’s beating of the war drums has drowned out domestic policy debates that should be shaping competition for control of Congress, bread-and-butter issues dominate the

Out in the countryside is where you’ll find America’s true leaders–the gutsy, scrappy, sometimes scruffy and always ingenious grassroots agitators and organizers who go right into the face of

SHERIFF SHEILA?

I was having dinner at a rather expensive restaurant the other night when a man I’d never met before threatened to kill me. He was a distinguished-looking fellow, dressed in a dark suit.

In May 2001, the White House issued a National Energy Policy report, known as the Cheney Report: the state of our national oil reserves. In 2000, half the oil we consumed was imported.

With the 1996 welfare law expiring this fall, Congressmembers would do well to stop congratulating themselves on its alleged successes and turn their attention to the glaring failures of the ne

The effort by the Bush Administration and Congress to portray the planned invasion of Iraq as simply an effort to enforce United Nations Security Council resolutions reaches a new low in double

On October 6 Brazilian voters propelled Workers’ Party candidate Luiz Inácio da Silva, or “Lula,” as he is known, one step closer to the presidency of the second-most-populous country in

There you go again, Mr. Ashcroft.

“You look beautiful,” shouted more than one speaker to the crowd that gathered in New York’s Central Park on Sunday, October 6, to protest George W.

George Bush’s speech from Cincinnati was calm, composed, reasonable–a studied performance calculated to win plaudits from the punditry and the consent of Congress to an Iraq resolution tailore

Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize for a career of successfully waging peace, beginning with the launching of a historic Mideast peace effort that President Bush is bent on scuttling with min

As in a paranoid novel by Don DeLillo, it all comes together in the end. The Democrats can’t stand up to Bush on Iraq because they’re afraid of looking soft on terrorism and Saddam Hussein–but

Bomb ’em now, kill ’em now, zim, boom, bah
Chickenhawks, chickenhawks, rah, rah, rah.
Vietnam reverberates.
(We were rooting from the States.)

The closest thing you get to a dull moment in Michael Moore’s latest picture, Bowling for Columbine, is an interview with Marilyn Manson.

Nothing is more galling to scientists than outsiders questioning their research priorities.

This book makes a good case for racism–the word, not the ideology. What necessitated a defense?

Any fan who over the years has attended a baseball game at Boston’s Fenway Park notices how few African-Americans are in the stands.