Hitler in Virginia

Two offensive attack ads in the Virginia governor's race have backfired on Republican candidate Jerry Kilgore and his attack-dog media consultant. Does this mean GOP smear tactics ...

Max Blumenthal

The Increasingly Private Public School

The privatization of the nation's greatest, once-public colleges and universities is well under way. The loss of low-cost higher education is a quiet tragedy, one that will severel...

Nicholas von Hoffman

Scare Scenario

It has all the makings of a horror flick, but panic over a possible bird flu pandemic is following a time-honored script: sensational media reports, profit-hungry drug manufacturer...

Dr. Marc Siegel

The Hidden History of Slavery in New York

Those who believe that slavery in America was strictly a "Southern thing" will discover an eye-opening historical record on display at the New-York Historical Society's current exh...

Adele Oltman

Empty Boots, Ravished Hearts

Rows of plain black boots and empty pairs of baby shoes and dancing slippers are a mute testament to the American soldiers and Iraqi civilians who have perished in Iraq, as shown i...

Shreema Mehta

As Brazil Votes to Ban Guns, NRA Joins the Fight

As Brazilians vote on a historic measure to ban the sale of guns and ammunition, foes of gun control have received help from a neighbor to the north: the NRA.

Kelly Hearn

A Constitutional Disaster

After a campaign of distortion and deception, the USA Patriot Act is about to be renewed. It's a deeply flawed law that will be used mainly against dissidents, immigrants, Muslims ...

Chip Pitts

Sweeping Up Ohio

There's a way to cure Ohio's dysfunctional electoral system: an election-reform referendum that allows creation of "swing districts."

John Nichols

Kaine Country

It's a tight race, but if Tim Kaine becomes the next governor of Virginia, Democrats gain what they desperately need to win back Congress: a big win in a Southern state.

John Nichols

Gore Vidal, Octocontrarian

Marc Cooper interviews Gore Vidal about an America that is increasingly controlled by corporations and suggests that the Gulf Coast hurricanes and the Iraq debacle signal the break...

Marc Cooper

Wrong About the Right

Progressives lack a common set of that tie a movement together. But they can build on conservatives' proven strategy of slowly creating a broad consensus.

Jean Hardisty and Deepak Bhargava

Beyond Shelters

Advocacy groups like ACORN want New Orleanians to play a role in the rebuilding of the community they had to leave. The biggest issue so far: getting refugees of the storm back hom...

Michael Tisserand

Hurricane Gumbo

The Cajun and Creole folks of Ville Platte, LA, learned long ago not to rely on the government for help. It the wake of hurricanes they launched a homemade rescue-and-relief effort...

Mike Davis and Anthony Fontenot

Rosa Parks: A Woman of Substance

Frozen in memory as the simple woman who helped to bring down segregation, Rosa Parks was far more complex and formidable than the popular imagination makes her out to be . A fulle...

Eric Foner

Deadline for Saddam

Calvin Trillin

The Hidden History of Slavery in New York

Those who believe that slavery in America was strictly a "Southern thing" will discover an eye-opening historical record on display at the New-York Historical Society's current exh...

Adele Oltman

One Possible Scenario

Calvin Trillin

The Young and the Damned

Paradise Now explores the bond among suicide bombers; The Squid and the Whale brings two monstrously large characters to human scale and The President's Last Bang<...