Forty-Seven Years Ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson Called for Voting Rights Forty-Seven Years Ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson Called for Voting Rights
States like Texas and South Carolina have blamed the federal government for imposing on their state’s sovereignty, but President Johnson, emboldened by the heroic efforts of ...
Mar 15, 2012 / Brentin Mock
Time to Get Out of Afghanistan Time to Get Out of Afghanistan
The mutual resentment between the Afghan people and the US military has broken out in the open.
Mar 14, 2012 / The Editors
Michael Harrington and the ‘Culture Of Poverty’ Michael Harrington and the ‘Culture Of Poverty’
The Other America offered a view of poverty that seemed designed to comfort the already comfortable.
Mar 14, 2012 / Barbara Ehrenreich
Noted Noted
Katrina vanden Heuvel on Dennis Kucinich, John Nichols on Rush Limbaugh and Randy Hertz on Jackson v. Hobbs and Miller v. Alabama
Mar 14, 2012 / Various Contributors
David Grossman Speaks Out Against War With Iran David Grossman Speaks Out Against War With Iran
Addressing the issue publicly for the first time, Israel’s leading novelist says an attack would set in motion a “nightmare."
Mar 14, 2012 / Larry Derfner
The Occupy Spring? The Occupy Spring?
As the weather heats up, so will the action. But what direction should the movement take?
Mar 14, 2012 / Feature / Richard Kim
The Purpose of Occupy Wall Street Is to Occupy Wall Street The Purpose of Occupy Wall Street Is to Occupy Wall Street
The head of the beast can only be cut off at one place—and that’s downtown Manhattan.
Mar 14, 2012 / Feature / Michael Moore
Occupy Is Dead! Long Live Occupy! Occupy Is Dead! Long Live Occupy!
The cohesive communities formed in town square in the fall are over, but the movement lives on.
Mar 14, 2012 / Feature / Ilyse Hogue
Occupy the Imagination Occupy the Imagination
Occupy is the base upon which to build a mass left radical movement, one that challenges the system itself.
Mar 14, 2012 / Feature / Bill Fletcher Jr.
What Does Democracy Look Like? What Does Democracy Look Like?
The movement isn’t about reforming capitalism, it’s about creating a democracy that’s incompatible with capitalism.
Mar 14, 2012 / Feature / Marina Sitrin