Les Payne’s Too-Quiet Departure

A legendary African-American journalist is cast off by Newsday, and the profession is poorer for it.

Peter Eisner

Vision for a New Foreign Policy

As a new president takes charge, it is time to talk together, to walk together and to work together. It is the only time we have.

Cora Weiss

In Gaza, the War of ’48 Continues

Israel must decide, once and for all, which path it will take: reach a courageous resolution to the conflict, or prolong it indefinitely.

Akiva Eldar

Israel’s New War Ethic

The masters of Israel's war on Gaza have fashioned a bizarre moral code that provides humanitarian assistance to the very civilians they are shooting at.

Neve Gordon

Israel in Gaza: Irrationality

It is not rational to believe that the Palestinians in the occupied territories will be terrorized by force and violence, by cruelty, by starvation or by slaughter into a docile ac...

Wallace Shawn

A Memo to Obama on Israel

The following humble suggestions are based on my 70 years of experience as an underground fighter, member of the Knesset and founding member of a peace movement in Israel.

Uri Avnery

Israel’s War Crimes

Israel's assault on Gaza is a massive violation of international law. Nations that have supplied weapons and supported the siege are complicit in the crimes.

Richard Falk

The Kiss

Let us pause, amid the muddle of the moment in this season of renewal and fresh starts, to consider fundamental things.

JoAnn Wypijewski

Obama for America 2.0?

Barack Obama has mobilized the most connected national constituency in history. But can he use it to govern?

Ari Melber

Good God, Bad God

If Rick Warren, Barack Obama and the gay community can find common ground, it'll be on civil, not religious, grounds. So let's separate church and state.

Richard Kim

Noted.

A closer look at Obama's "green team," journalists behind bars and John Nichols on potential labor secretary Hilda Solis.

The Editors

Ideas for a New Era

It's time for progressives to create coalitions and craft smart strategies that will push Obama and the new Congress to seize this moment.

The Editors

Moral Blindness on Gaza

Why are we--in the media, politics and intelligentsia--so indifferent to the death and destruction in the latest phase of this interminable conflict?

Robert Scheer

The Year in Political Sports

In 2008, the wall between sports and politics, which we are told is as immutable as Gibraltar, was not only challenged, it was thoroughly breached.

Dave Zirin

Gaza Clouds Obama’s Prospects

So, why didn't they give peace a chance? Why did the leaders of Hamas and Israel not wait for the incoming US president's inauguration before mutually escalating hostilities?

Robert Scheer

Cheney’s Legacy of Deception

In the end, the shame of Dick Cheney was total: unmitigated by any notion of a graceful departure, let alone the slightest obligation of honest accounting.

Robert Scheer

Say Good Night, Charlie

Cutting Charlie Rangel loose would prove just how serious Obama is about transforming Washington's toxic culture of self-enrichment.

Eric Alterman

A Lesson From Muntader Al-Zaida

Calvin Trillin

Vietnam Revisited, Part Two

San Francisco; Taylor, Mich.

Our Readers and Nick Turse