Patriotism’s Secret History Patriotism’s Secret History
Our most cherished national symbols—from the Pledge of Allegiance to "America the Beautiful" to Lady Liberty's poetry—are rooted in liberal ideals.
May 16, 2002 / Peter Dreier and Dick Flacks
Israel and ‘Anti-Semitism’ Israel and ‘Anti-Semitism’
Right in the wake of House majority leader Dick Armey's explicit call for several million Palestinians to be booted out of the West Bank, and East Jerusalem and Gaza as well, c...
May 16, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
The Mullahs of Marriage The Mullahs of Marriage
Although former Vice President Quayle's legacy may not be one for the history books, he will certainly be remembered for the day he took on television's Murphy Brown.
May 15, 2002 / Feature / Bill Berkowitz
The Real David Brock The Real David Brock
When incurable liberals like Todd Gitlin and Eric Alterman begin using the name Whittaker Chambers as a term of approbation, we are entitled to say that there has been what the Ger...
May 9, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Paul Wellstone, Fighter Paul Wellstone, Fighter
The Senate's most progressive member is in the fight of his life.
May 9, 2002 / Feature / John Nichols
Progressive Blooms Progressive Blooms
As Molly Ivins put it in a recent column: "Across the length and breadth of this land of ours, from the mountain to the prairie, from every hill and dale comes the question, 'Wher...
Apr 18, 2002 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Politics of Ethics The Politics of Ethics
By identifying ethics with civic virtue, we create an ethics of the left.
Mar 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Randy Cohen
Thunderstruck on the Right Thunderstruck on the Right
My sister-in-law, a historian and researcher in alternative medicine, once told me of a doctoral dissertation she'd happened across in which the writer interviewed a number of com...
Mar 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Michael Tomasky
Why the Right Loves Bush Why the Right Loves Bush
It was the start of another Conservative Political Action Conference--the annual gathering of several thousand activists--and Republican Party chairman Marc Racicot, in unexcitin...
Feb 7, 2002 / David Corn