Realistic Immigration Realistic Immigration
Grant legal status to hard-working, tax-paying immigrants; give up the illusion that law enforcement alone will solve immigration problems.
Jan 19, 2006 / Feature / Hilda Solis
Raising Up Youth Raising Up Youth
Insure funding for programs with proven success rehabilitating violent youths and avoid the failures of the prison system.
Jan 19, 2006 / Feature / Diane Watson
Education Mobilization Education Mobilization
Establish a first-rate education system to draw on our greatest untapped human resource: the children of our inner cities.
Jan 19, 2006 / Feature / Major Owens
Just Us Just Us
Three books examine American history through the scope of racism and racial identity.
Jan 19, 2006 / Books & the Arts / David Oshinsky
Never Mind the Truth… Never Mind the Truth…
Coverage of the Alito hearings revealed once again that there is no liberal bias in mainstream media.
Jan 19, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
Foggy Bottom Foggy Bottom
If we are suspending the law in deference to Bush's unchecked impulses, let's call it by its proper name: Benign lawlessness? Gitmo Governance? Fear Factor?
Jan 19, 2006 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
George W. Bush Explains the ‘Signing Statement’ Issued When He Signed John McCain’s Anti-Torture Amendment Into Law George W. Bush Explains the ‘Signing Statement’ Issued When He Signed John McCain’s Anti-Torture Amendment Into Law
Using special "signing" language, the torturer-in-chief shows the world who's boss.
Jan 19, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin
A Is for Anti-Woman A Is for Anti-Woman
What's at stake for women if Samuel Alito is confirmed to the US Supreme Court? Reproductive rights are only the tip of the iceberg.
Jan 19, 2006 / Editorial / Sharon Lerner
The Alito Failure The Alito Failure
As Samuel Alito cruises toward confirmation, the process of vetting him demonstrates the price we pay for one-party government.
Jan 19, 2006 / Editorial / Bruce Shapiro
Confirmation and Crisis Confirmation and Crisis
If the Alito confirmation hearings were a test of Democratic strategy, the Alito vote to come is a test of moderate Republican integrity and mettle.
Jan 14, 2006 / Feature / Bruce Shapiro