9/11 Plus Seven 9/11 Plus Seven
Seven years after the attacks, the Bush Administration's strategy to transform the world has squandered our resources, buried us in debt and poses a greater strategic threat than O...
Sep 9, 2008 / Feature / Andrew J. Bacevich
From Organizer to Elected Official From Organizer to Elected Official
It's not that big a leap from the public service work done by community organizers and the pragmatic work of coalition-building done by elected officials.
Sep 8, 2008 / Feature / Peter Dreier
GOP Mocks Public Service GOP Mocks Public Service
Mocking community organizers, the GOP attacks a tradition of collective self-help that's made America a more humane country.
Sep 5, 2008 / Feature / Peter Dreier and John Atlas
Fees for Criminal Offenders Create a Vicious Cycle Fees for Criminal Offenders Create a Vicious Cycle
As they serve prison time, offenders are slapped with fees they can't pay, creating a vicious cycle.
Sep 3, 2008 / Feature / Emily Jane Goodman
War Is Personal War Is Personal
A 25-year-old certified medic, home from Iraq, can't escape the horrors of war.
Sep 3, 2008 / Feature / Eugene Richards
Israel Turns 60 Israel Turns 60
Israeli writers and intellectuals look at their nation and its problems in a more nuanced and realistic way than most Americans.
Sep 3, 2008 / Feature / Eric Alterman
Sarah Palin’s Frontier Justice Sarah Palin’s Frontier Justice
Her appeal to a certain sector of the electorate lies in her willingness to take the law in her own hands--and use public power as a personal weapon.
Sep 3, 2008 / Feature / Patricia J. Williams
Our Man Countryman Our Man Countryman
This Week: Ex-black ops agent Dieter Countryman comes to terms with a life misspent as the very dogs of chaos he helped unleash come back to bite him.
Sep 3, 2008 / Feature / Gary Phillips
The Problem Is Empire The Problem Is Empire
The challenge to the peace movement is not to liberalize the empire; the task is to peacefully and steadily bring it to an end--and make democracy safe for the world.
Sep 2, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Tom Hayden
Blue-Collar Republicans Blue-Collar Republicans
The Republican Party has set itself firmly against the agenda of the labor movement. So to observe Labor Day in St. Paul was a strange experience indeed.
Sep 2, 2008 / Feature / Chris Hayes