George Tiller: What If? George Tiller: What If?
When a person who has been targeted before is murdered, as Dr. George Tiller was, there are a lot of what ifs. What if, back in the 1990s, after the first atte...
Jun 2, 2009 / Laura Flanders
The Rape of Gaza The Rape of Gaza
How would you feel if you found out that an American school, paid for with your tax dollars, was bombed and completely destroyed by a US ally? This happened in Gaza just a few mont...
Jun 2, 2009 / Roane Carey
Obama’s Organizing Chief: Supporters Push Sotomayor, Health Care Obama’s Organizing Chief: Supporters Push Sotomayor, Health Care
Speaking to a liberal summit in Washington today, Organizing for America director Mitch Stewart outlined how the DNC is tapping Obama's campaign network to advance the administrati...
Jun 1, 2009 / Ari Melber
Corruption and Careful Reading: A Response to George Will Corruption and Careful Reading: A Response to George Will
Last week, George Will spent his Sunday column in the Washington Post attacking an article I recently wrote in the Cornell Law Review. Of course it is gratifying to have an academi...
Jun 1, 2009 / Zephyr Teachout
Sotomayor’s Seditious Syllables Sotomayor’s Seditious Syllables
Of all the comically desperate attacks on Supreme Court justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor last week--she belongs to the "Latino KKK" (Tom Tancredo), she's a "Hispanic ...
Jun 1, 2009 / Leslie Savan
Bloomberg’s the ‘Disgrace’ Bloomberg’s the ‘Disgrace’
It's bad enough that Mike Bloomberg jerry-rigged a third term for himself via the hapless city council--a maneuver not even Rudy Giuliani could pull off after 9/11--and has already...
May 29, 2009 / Ari Berman
The President of Paradox The President of Paradox
It will be an historic occasion when Sonia Sotomayor takes her seat. Assuming she's confirmed, she'll be the first woman of color and the first person from the Latino commu...
May 28, 2009 / Laura Flanders
Prussia on the Mediterranean? Prussia on the Mediterranean?
It is an assumption almost universally acknowledged among the liberal American intelligentsia that while the Israeli occupation is repressive and abhorrent, Israel itself is an ope...
May 27, 2009 / Roane Carey
Remembering Amos Elon Remembering Amos Elon
The world of letters lost an inimitable voice on Monday, when the journalist and historian Amos Elon died in Italy, at the age of eighty-two. For decades, Elon's stylish essays gr...
May 27, 2009 / Eyal Press
Celebrating Sotomayor and Mourning Prop 8 Celebrating Sotomayor and Mourning Prop 8
Tuesday was an emotional day for the left. In the morning President Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court. It was welcome news for those ...
May 27, 2009 / Melissa Harris-Perry