“It is a Dick Cheney World Out There…” “It is a Dick Cheney World Out There…”
Bill Moyers is hitting the road in California for an eight-city speaking tour to raise issues of money and politics. And, as usual, he's got a lot to say about the withering state ...
Feb 24, 2006 / John Nichols
Sweet Victory: Electoral Reform Movement Marches On Sweet Victory: Electoral Reform Movement Marches On
Co-written by Sam Graham-Felsen. If there's one core cause for progressives to unite around, it just may be the clean elections movement. Until elections are publicly financed, b...
Feb 24, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
America’s Online Censors America’s Online Censors
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco Systems are under fire from Congress for helping China censor and prosecute political dissidents. But a proposed law to guide technology companie...
Feb 24, 2006 / Feature / Rebecca MacKinnon
Bloggers at the Gate Bloggers at the Gate
Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, a k a MyDD and Daily Kos, propose to revive the Democratic Party with a technology-driven "bloodless coup."
Feb 24, 2006 / Feature / Ari Melber
X-Offenders X-Offenders
A judge in Colombia has ruled that a bicycle courier be jailed for four years for grabbing a woman's bum while he whizzed past her on the street. When the grabber was caught, Dian...
Feb 24, 2006 / Christine Owens
Why’s a Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel on the “No-Fly” List? Why’s a Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel on the “No-Fly” List?
The federal officials who are busy assuring Americans that they've got their act together when it comes to managing port security are not inspiring much confidence with their appr...
Feb 24, 2006 / John Nichols
White House Whitewash on Katrina? White House Whitewash on Katrina?
I first posted this at www.davidcorn.com.... We all know how much this White House cherishes self-exam...
Feb 24, 2006 / David Corn
L.A. Labor Thrown Into Crisis L.A. Labor Thrown Into Crisis
The country's most dynamic and progressive union coalition – The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor--finds itself in a world of pain this week, just a few months out from...
Feb 24, 2006 / Marc Cooper
Days of Rage in Iraq Days of Rage in Iraq
Iraq is in the early stages of a civil war, as events on the ground make painfully clear. At least 111 people have been killed since Sunni insurgents attacked one of the holiest Sh...
Feb 23, 2006 / Ari Berman
L’Affair Dubai Spins Beyond Satire L’Affair Dubai Spins Beyond Satire
The Onion may have grounds for legal action against the Bush administration for unfair competition. After all, the administration is supposed to make its best effort to manage the...
Feb 23, 2006 / John Nichols