magazine September 2006

Bird-Dogging Hillary Clinton

Operation "Bird-Dog Hillary" is part of an effort by CODEPINK to get Sen. Clinton to support bringing the troops home from Iraq.

By Nancy Kricorian    activism politics war

Do You Have a Minute for ?

How the canvassing industry is burning out progressive youth

By Greg Bloom    activism labor

The Good War on Terror

How the Greatest Generation helped pave the road to Baghdad

By Christopher Hayes    911 politics war

The Prairie Populist: Byron Dorgan

Sen. Byron Dorgan, a populist Democrat from North Dakota, has a new book out entitled "Take This Job and Ship It: How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America."

By David Sirota    books economy politics trade

Examining Irans ties to Hezbollah

Just how much influence does the Islamic Republic wield over Hezbollah?

By William O. Beeman    international middle east politics religion

The Death of Doha

The WTO model has collapsed. What's next?

By David Moberg    politics trade

Lets be Realists, Let?s Demand the Impossible!

Why pragmatic politics are doomed to fail in the Middle East

By Slavoj Zizek    international middle east terrorism war and peace

SDS, New and Improved

SDS reforms at University of Chicago convention.

By Adam Doster    activism education politics

After the Deluge

Big Easy organizers confront racial tensions

Teacher Rebellion in Oaxaca

Thousands of teachers go on strike in Oaxaca.

Follow the Prison Money Trail

Private prison companies invest millions in elections.

Why Hemingway Is Chick-Lit

Women read more fiction than men.

By Lakshmi Chaudhry    art books gender

White Blight

Arguments for "race neutrality" are used to curtail Civil Rights advances.

By Nancy MacLean    books race

Plagiarists: Catch Your Own Clue

Plagarism is running rampant.

By Susan J. Douglas    art books

I.F. Stone: Iconic Muckracker

Myra MacPherson wrote a new book "All Governments Lie: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I.F. Stone.

By Steve Weinberg    activism books media

Sick to Death of Bush

Trust me, George Bush says, perched on the remains of Geneva Conventions, the Constitution and habeas corpus. From this moral high ground, the… more

It Came From the Beltway

'Since [external behavior] is all we get to see of our friends and neighbors, some of your best friends may be zombies.'

Debunking the 60s with Ayers and Dohrn

'One of the things that sits very heavy on the progressive impulses today is the myth that there was a golden age in resistance.'

The Reparations Bandwagon

The question of reparations for racial slavery is one of the nation's most substantive issues. It is also one of the most disparaged.