Articles

Playing by the Numbers Playing by the Numbers

My friend L., a magistrate in Britain, is appalled by American-style sentencing, which has taken hold there recently.

Feb 24, 2005 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

When Liberals Collide When Liberals Collide

The Los Angeles mayoral race raises difficult questions for progressives.

Feb 24, 2005 / Feature / Marc Cooper

Dirty Politics, Foul Air Dirty Politics, Foul Air

At Pittsburgh's Jefferson Elementary School, which overlooks the dark gray plumes from two electric power plants, there are so many children with asthma the school nurse alphabet...

Feb 24, 2005 / Rebecca Clarren

Gorbachev’s Lost Legacy Gorbachev’s Lost Legacy

The most important event of the late twentieth century began twenty years ago this month.

Feb 24, 2005 / Stephen F. Cohen

Negroponte: Unfit to Lead Negroponte: Unfit to Lead

"You have to ask, Who would want this job?" So said a former senior CIA official referring to the new post of director of national intelligence, to which George W.

Feb 24, 2005 / David Corn

Sex & GOP ‘Values’ Sex & GOP ‘Values’

Mourning the loss of "moral values" voters, Democratic leaders have been softening the party's language on reproductive rights.

Feb 24, 2005 / The Editors

Galbraith: An Appreciation Galbraith: An Appreciation

John Kenneth Galbraith was famous long ago as America's most widely read economist, until his expansive understanding of economic liberalism was pushed aside by political event...

Feb 24, 2005 / Feature / William Greider

Can’t Workers of the World Unite? Can’t Workers of the World Unite?

Labor debates its future.

Feb 24, 2005 / Feature / David Moberg

Galbraith and Vietnam Galbraith and Vietnam

An adviser who told Kennedy the truth.

Feb 24, 2005 / Feature / Richard Parker

Letters Letters

$12 KLEENEX, AND MORE... Hastings-on-Hudson, NY

Feb 24, 2005 / Our Readers and Baruch Kimmerling

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