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
How to Cover the GOP How to Cover the GOP
Since they got all the megastories wrong in Denver, here's a primer for the media horde as they descend on St. Paul.
Aug 29, 2008 / Feature / Eric Alterman
Labor’s New Push Labor’s New Push
Meet Working America: a self-declared mass organization with a working-class base and a strategy to win.
Aug 29, 2008 / Feature / David Moberg
Diary of an Obama Delegate Diary of an Obama Delegate
I came to the DNC as a middle-aged female Obama delegate eager to make peace with Hillary women, and I did not get off to a good start.
Aug 28, 2008 / Feature / Cynthia Baughman