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Building a Citizen Politics

Remembering Paul Wellstone We mourn the passing of Sen. Paul Wellstone and his wife, Sheila. Americans have lostmore

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Bush Apologistas

In the past couple of months, as the Bush administration flogs its plans for war against Saddam Hussein,… more

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Thought Police

Big Brother may be watching what you read

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Let’s Make a Movie

The stout government minister, himself an actor in his youth for the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, stood before a… more

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Iran Behind the Screen

Women and cinema are controversial, problematic and significant topics in modern Iran, a nation that benefits from an… more

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Home Care Hardship

SEIU lobbies for raises in Illinois

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Election Daze

The Help America Vote Act may do just the opposite

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Under the Gun

Here in Fredericksburg, Virginia, amid the fear and anger over the sniper rampage, one topic has been largely… more

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The Big Picture

So it looks like the movies made it. Made it through the “death of irony” we heard so… more

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Justice in Guatemala

The historic conviction on October 3 of a former Guatemalan military officer, Col. Juan Valencia, for the 1990… more

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Spirited Away

With a little help from a rotund forest spirit, a teen-age witch and the odd flying pig, Hayao… more

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Cycle of Violence

Battered women who kill their abusers are being jailed

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Murder in Chiapas

Low-intensity conflict continues

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What’s Up on the Docks?

Bush turns to Taft-Hartley to battle the country's most militant union

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Carte Blanche

Congress capitulates to Bush’s call for war

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New Blood

Can a moment of anti-war anger become an effective new political movement?

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Arms and the Cameraman

Readers of these pages need no introduction to Michael Moore, nor will they require any acrobatics on my… more

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Not a Drop to Drink

The statistics are startling, even a bit panic-inducing. Around the world today, more than 1 billion people have… more

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They Doth Protest Too Much

An incredibly successful protest took place September 22. Activists around the country attracted attention to the unjust actions… more

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When Police Attack

I spent 15 hours handcuffed on a bus with 44 other people, all charged with a crime that… more

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Secret History?

Overseas documentary alleges war crimes in Afghanistan.

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Marcos’ Missing Millions

Corporate corruption scandals roil the United States, dragging down with them the reputations of the major accounting firms… more

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War or Peace?

Colombia's new president must choose between Washington and his own people.

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Cheap Hotels

Labor takes on Chicago's hospitality industry.

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I See Green People

Signs is about Earth’s infestation by claw-fingered aliens, but its scenes of a rural Pennsylvanian household stunned in… more

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Historyshock

Kim Stanley Robinson is that rarest phenomenon of fiction, the keen stylist who understands at once hard science,… more

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Bad to Worse

Welfare reform is up for reauthorization, but it's only going to get meaner

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Minority Reporter

Award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast spent the past five years in London reporting for both the Guardian andmore

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To the Extreme

A new Russian law shuts down Kremlin opposition.

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Clinic Crisis

Thanks to federal funding, anti-choice “pregnancy centers” are on the rise.

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Doing the Reich Thing

The former labor secretary makes a bid for the Massachusetts governor's mansion.

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The Incumbent-Protection Racket

Voters, beware. Redistricting, the once-a-decade swindle whereby incumbent politicians redraw the lines of their own legislative districts to… more

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Third Time’s the Challenge

Targeted by the White House, Paul Wellstone may face his toughest race yet.

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A Few Good Candidates

From likely winners to long shots, here are 10 to watch in 2002.

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Dithering Democrats

The November forecast looks gloomy.

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Living the Highlife

To watch U2 singer Bono traveling around Africa, relentlessly advocating for debt relief alongside the secretary of the… more

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No Limits: Introduction

The lack of women in high-level government positions is one of the most glaring, yet least talked about, problems facing women today. In the past four decades, women have entered politics in significant numbers.

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Dos and Don’ts on the Campaign Trail

With more women in elective office than ever before, running as a female candidate is no longer as difficult as it was. That doesn't mean it's easy.

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Love Is a Battlefield

With its deep bows to Monument Valley and other distant frontiers, its choked-off military men struggling with codes… more

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Homeland Insecurity

George W. Bush’s proposal for a new, mammoth Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is nothing more than an… more

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American Gulag

Hundreds of 9/11 detainees remain behind bars, shrouded in secrecy.

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FBI on Trial

Jury awards $4.4 million to a pair of Earth First! activists.

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FBI on Trial

Jury awards $4.4 million to a pair of Earth First! activists.

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Back to the Brink

India and Pakistan talk tough.

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‘New’ FBI, Same Old Problems

What do you do with a federal agency of notorious incompetence that is also famous for regularly trampling… more

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FBI Goodbye

Give defense a chance. Why not use this as a rallying cry for progressives?

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Popcorn and Sake

In Hirokazu Kore’eda’s 1998 film After Life, the dead discover that there is no heaven or hell, only… more

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The Savings and Clone Scandal

Debate over the Senate’s two competing cloning bills—one that would ban all cloning and one that would allow… more

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Feeling Fein

Elections in a changing Ireland

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Pim’s Misfortune

Only in death did this Dutch dandy become a darling of American conservatives.

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