Giving Americans a Raise Giving Americans a Raise
The massive number of Americans who support raising the minimum wage should spur Congress to action.
Mar 23, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Sam Graham-Felsen
Israel’s Backward March Israel’s Backward March
If Israel's Kadima Party prevails at the polls as expected, its policies will effectively take Israelis several steps backward.
Mar 23, 2006 / Neve Gordon
Letters Letters
"A Letter to the American Left" (Feb. 27) by Bernard-Henri Levy (aka BHL) ignited a firestorm of (mostly) angry mail.
Mar 23, 2006 / Our Readers
Didn’t This Call for Withdrawal From Iraq Merit Attention? Didn’t This Call for Withdrawal From Iraq Merit Attention?
Here's an interesting issue for the "liberal media" to ponder: In January, 2004, when the Des Moines Register made an unexpected endorsement of John Edwards as the best president...
Mar 23, 2006 / John Nichols
Handing Over the Forests Handing Over the Forests
I'm sure you many of have heard about President Bush's proposal to sell off national forest land to raise money for the federal budget. The plan, which requires Congressional appr...
Mar 23, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
The End of TINA The End of TINA
I'm in a secure and undisclosed location for a 52 hour break from thebrutal beast called a political weekly. That's why I'm on e-mail at 11pm Tuesday night. (And scouring the local...
Mar 22, 2006 / Adam Howard
No Light in the Tunnel No Light in the Tunnel
Hope and fear are always the polar forces at work in Americanpolitics and this Texas-macho President has brilliantly orchestrated thenation's fear of terrorism into a winning posit...
Mar 22, 2006 / Adam Howard
Comeuppance in Cleveland Comeuppance in Cleveland
One tough question from an elderly gentleman in Cleveland punctured the President's pretensions about the reasons for launching the disastrous Iraq war.
Mar 22, 2006 / Feature / Robert Scheer
An Undocumented “Sanctuary” An Undocumented “Sanctuary”
The rhetorical war over immigration has suddenly become a ground war in Southern California. While some towns in conservative Orange County are now encouraging their local police t...
Mar 22, 2006 / Adam Howard
Erasing Whiteness Erasing Whiteness
If women expect to shed the cruel and calculating artifice of race in our lifetimes, we must contribute to the emerging generation of literature that deconstructs racial categories...
Mar 22, 2006 / Feature / Silja J.A. Talvi