Jack Gordon Jack Gordon
Jack Gordon, "the unabashedly liberal conscience of Florida's State Senate," was chosen majority leader at a time when his politics should have made him an anathema. His fight agai...
Jan 5, 2006 / Molly Ivins
Harry Magdoff Harry Magdoff
The late socialist economist Harry Magdoff read Marx at fifteen and never looked back. A self-educated co-editor of the Monthly Review, he not only fought for a just and humane wor...
Jan 5, 2006 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
Hunger Is Not a Place Hunger Is Not a Place
It's not true that only the rich can help the poor. We must work to empower nations like Bangladesh that are addressing the problem of hunger by creating networks of schools, healt...
Jan 5, 2006 / Frances Moore Lappé
Of Queers and Kong Of Queers and Kong
From Brokeback Mountain's closeted cowboys to King Kong's embrace of Anne Darrow, Hollywood has queered cherished icons of masculinity. But the two films paint a bleak picture: Lov...
Jan 5, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Richard Goldstein
Ruling Class Warriors Ruling Class Warriors
House Republicans rammed through a budget bill in December that cuts $40 billion from domestic programs. Is there anyone of conscience in the Senate to defeat this?
Jan 5, 2006 / Eyal Press
The Case Against Alito The Case Against Alito
Samuel Alito would swing the Supreme Court to a right-wing authoritarianism that is out of step with the public and the Constitution.
Jan 5, 2006 / The Editors
Language of the Heart Language of the Heart
We need to learn a new language of peace and love that we can speak, even shout, to our leaders who only understand the language of greed and murder.
Dec 29, 2005 / Cindy Sheehan
A Motion for Censure A Motion for Censure
In a report issued December 20, Representative John Conyers Jr. documents the misconduct of President Bush and his Adminisration, and makes the case that they should be censured by...
Dec 22, 2005 / Rep. John Conyers