The Erotics of Resistance

With spring come glimmerings of new social attitudes: The popularity of V for Vendetta proves films with a social conscience resonate; Kanye West's challenge to rap homophob...

Richard Goldstein

ACS v. Federalists

The American Constitution Society is a new force, full of optimism and ideas that challenge the conservative agenda and promote progressive political principles.

Abner Mikva

How to Free the Press

The demise of Knight Ridder newspapers could result in some new media models--as the Newspaper Guild teams up with private investors to purchase twelve high-integrity newspapers no...

John Nichols

What’s Good for GM?

General Motors must shoulder blame for a faulty product mix and a stubborn resistance to the idea of single-payer health insurance, which sent benefits costs soaring.

Jamie Lincoln Kitman

Auto Recovery

GM's struggle underscores the need to create a better social contract between workers and industry, and to invest in a world beyond the internal combustion engine.

The Editors

Robert Scheer: ‘Anti-Christian Conspirators’ Slay DeLay

Tom DeLay claims to see a vast anti-Christian conspiracy in the legal troubles that forced him out of the House--though his own sins would seem to be sufficient explanation.

Robert Scheer

Don’t Spare the Rod

What happens when liberals lose their sex drive? American culture moves further away from secular individualism and closer to religious fundamentalism.

Nicholas von Hoffman

Prescient and Patriotic: America’s Honor Roll

Here's an honor roll of people who risked their positions and/or prestige to warn the nation of the Iraq War catastrophe.

Eric Alterman

Jeu de Vivre

The real world is becoming more like a computer game every day. I worry that the computer itself is breeding little cyberhumans who will wander among us, sucking the humanity out o...

Patricia J. Williams

On the Revelation That Dick Cheney Requires The Television to Be Pre-set to Fox News in Any Hotel Room He Is About to Occupy

Calvin Trillin

The New Campus Left-Style

Loads of student activists--far-left and moderate, dredded and shiny-shoed--and their mentors responded to Sam Graham-Felsen's "The New Face of the Campus Left" [Feb. 13]...