Labor to Lincoln: You’re Not Obama’s BFF Labor to Lincoln: You’re Not Obama’s BFF
Organized labor takes on Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln in a pair of new ads.
Apr 5, 2010 / Ari Berman
A Conscious Pariah A Conscious Pariah
Raul Hilberg, the first historian to document the banality of Nazi evil, nursed a lifelong grudge against the woman who borrowed from and popularized his work, Hannah Arendt.
Mar 31, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Nathaniel Popper
A Wise Unknowingness A Wise Unknowingness
"There is such a thing as a moral atmosphere." So said Violet Gibson, the woman who shot Mussolini.
Mar 18, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Brenda Wineapple
A Body on the Gears A Body on the Gears
At Berkeley in 1964, Mario Savio embodied the need to speak and act in the face of doubt.
Mar 11, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Scott Saul
Heroic Impatience Heroic Impatience
The past was one single catastrophe to the Baader-Meinhof Gang, and acts of violence the only perceived exit.
Mar 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Diego Gambetta
Zinn-ophobia at NPR Zinn-ophobia at NPR
NPR's attempt to appease its critics by featuring comment from conservative pundits went a step too far when it let radical right-wing advocate David Horowitz contribute to Howard ...
Feb 11, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Howard Zinn, 1922-2010 Howard Zinn, 1922-2010
Remembering the pragmatic radical.
Feb 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
Swing Time: On Morris Dickstein Swing Time: On Morris Dickstein
Morris Dickstein's elegant cultural history of the Great Depression.
Feb 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / D.D. Guttenplan
Howard Zinn: The Historian Who Made History Howard Zinn: The Historian Who Made History
Howard Zinn, who died in 2010 at the age of 87, did nothing less than rewrite the narrative of the United States.
Jan 28, 2010 / Dave Zirin
How Barack Obama is like Martin Luther King, Jr. How Barack Obama is like Martin Luther King, Jr.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. –Martin Luther King, Jr. Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomina...
Jan 18, 2010 / Melissa Harris-Perry