Protect the Vote Locally

As the Democratic majority in Congress weighs several measures to address voter suppression, the time is right for real voting reform on the local level.

Paul Rogat Loeb

Prop 209: Ten Long Years

Ten years after its passage, California's Prop 209 has had a devastating impact on diversity in higher education.

Carmina Ocampo

Friedman’s Cruel Legacy

Milton Friedman's free-market faith produced a bastardized system of interest-group politics that favors sectors of citizens at the expense of many others.

William Greider

Big Win for Enviros

America's environmentalists won big in the midterm elections. But can they make real progress on climate change by 2008 and beyond?

Mark Hertsgaard

An Immodest Proposal

Modesty is a virtue, but rather than telling the courts to practice restraint, the Bush Administration should rein in its own abuses of power.

David Cole

The Odd Attack on Dean

James Carville's bizarre attack on Howard Dean exposed an explosive battle for control between Clintonistas-in-waiting and advocates of renewal. This is a good fight to have.

The Editors

The Boomerang War

Bush launched the Iraq disaster, and it keeps coming back and hitting us in the head. And now he is counting on Iran to help bail us out.

Robert Scheer

Coffee, Tea or Another Airline Merger?

As US Air seeks to create a mega-airline by gobbling up Delta, the evidence mounts that a free market in the sky just doesn't work.

Nicholas von Hoffman

Their Opportunism, Our Opportunity

Mainstream media have transformed the permanent presidential campaign into a never-ending soap opera. Progressives must create the movements that will influence whoever decides to ...

Gary Younge

Liar. ‘Liar?’

Bush's contempt for the truth and for those whose job it is to find it has created an existential crisis for mainstream media.

Eric Alterman

On When We Can Leave Iraq

Calvin Trillin

Awesome Powers

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