Woody Guthrie Woody Guthrie
When Bob Dylan took the stage at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, all leather and Ray-Bans and Beatle boots, and declared emphatically and (heaven forbid) electrically that he w...
Jul 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Steve Earle
Benjamin Mays Benjamin Mays
Benjamin Elijah Mays--devout Christian minister, uncompromising advocate for justice, career educator and longtime president of Morehouse College in Atlanta--was called the "Sc...
Jul 2, 2003 / Feature / Roger Wilkins
Margaret Sanger Margaret Sanger
"No Gods, No Masters," the rallying cry of the Industrial Workers of the World, was her personal and political manifesto.
Jul 2, 2003 / Feature / Ellen Chesler
Bella Abzug Bella Abzug
"I've been described as a tough noisy woman--a prizefighter--a man-hater...a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy.
Jul 2, 2003 / Feature / Patricia Bosworth
I.F. Stone I.F. Stone
Sidney Hook, the Marxist philosopher-turned-neoconservative who once mistakenly listed I.F.
Jul 2, 2003 / Feature / Victor Navasky
Walt Whitman Walt Whitman
In 1848, 29-year-old Walt Whitman was for three months a reporter for the Daily Crescent in New Orleans, writing fluff pieces about local color and charm as seen through Yankee...
Jul 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Richard Gambino
Ramallah Diary Ramallah Diary
"This road was as doomed as the Palestinian Authority itself."
Jul 2, 2003 / Feature / Raja Shehadeh
A Light in the Fog A Light in the Fog
Seattle is curbing greenhouse gases through more efficient power consumption.
Jun 26, 2003 / Feature / Alec Appelbaum
Humanitarian Intervention: A Forum Humanitarian Intervention: A Forum
Richard Falk, Mary Kaldor, Carl Tham, Samantha Power, Mahmood Mamdani, David Rieff, Eric Rouleau, Zia Mian, Ronald Steel, Stephen Holmes, Ramesh Thakur, Stephen Zunes
Jun 26, 2003 / Feature / The Nation