Surfers vs. the Superferry Surfers vs. the Superferry
How grassroots activists in Hawaii threw a wrench into plans for an environmentally hazardous superferry.
Feb 26, 2009 / Feature / Jerry Mander and Koohan Paik
A Global Green Deal A Global Green Deal
America must step up and lead an international campaign to curb emissions. Done properly, it will green the planet and our wallets.
Feb 26, 2009 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard
The Future of Social Security The Future of Social Security
New York City
Feb 25, 2009 / William Greider and Our Readers
Pundits Say Washington Must Instill Confidence Pundits Say Washington Must Instill Confidence
It's something money can't buy.
Feb 25, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin
That This That This
That this book is a history of a shadow that is a shadow of me mystically one in another Another another to subserve __ Day is a type when visible objects change then put on form but the anti-type That thing not shadowed __ Is light anything like this stray pencil commonplace copy as to one aberrant onward-gliding mystery __ A secular arrietta variation Grass angels perish in this harmonic collision because non-being cannot be "this" __ Not spirit not space finite Not infinite to those fixed-- That this millstone as such Quiet which side on which-- __ That a solitary person bears witness to law in the ark to an altar of snow and every age or century for a day is __ Is one mind put into another in us unknown to ourselves by going about among trees and fields in moonlight or in a garden to ease distance to fetch home spiritual things __
Feb 25, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Susan Howe
Puzzle No. 3160 Puzzle No. 3160
ACROSS
1 Evidently something like the puma pounces--but such are not legitimate occasions of inaction. (7,7)
Feb 25, 2009 / Frank W. Lewis
The Draft Sirota Campaign Begins The Draft Sirota Campaign Begins
There's been some pretty awesome grassroots mobilization around MSNBC's 10pm time slot, with Facebook groups devoted both to Sam Seder and Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks. Today Chr...
Feb 25, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Can the Courts Handle Terror Suspects? Can the Courts Handle Terror Suspects?
Vince Warren of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Lieutenant Col. David Vandeveld, a former prosecutor at Gitmo and others discuss whether our criminal courts can handle terror...
Feb 25, 2009 / GRITtv
Update on DC Voting Rights Update on DC Voting Rights
Greg Kaufmann, who's been following developments closely writes: Don't count your 60 Senate votes before they hatch… Look, it definitely looks good. However, there are a coupl...
Feb 25, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Chas Freeman for NIC: Lots at Stake Chas Freeman for NIC: Lots at Stake
A thunderous, coordinated assault against one of President Obama's intelligence picks is now underway. It started in a few right-wing blogs, migrated to semi-official mouthpieces ...
Feb 25, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss