Reproductive Rights on the Line in South Dakota

An initiative that seeks to overturn South Dakota's draconian ban on abortion will have implications in states across the country.

Kate Michelman

Pat Tillman’s Legacy

As the elections approach, a former soldier, grieving the friendly-fire death of his brother in combat, asks: How has the most respected country in the world become so irrational, ...

Kevin Tillman

Soldiers of Conscience

A peace activist argues that if soldiers like Lieut. Ehren Watada succeed in convincing the courts that they have a right to refuse to fight in unjust and illegal wars, the world w...

Staughton Lynd

In Fact…

ROUGH JUSTICE

The Editors

Rich’s Stealth Campaign

Howard Rich is pouring big money into leveraging our electoral system to serve his libertarian agenda.

Peter Schrag

Downsized but Not Out

United Professionals, a new organization for college-educated workers at risk in a global economy, is joining the movement for economic justice.

Barbara Ehrenreich and Tamara Draut

The War and the Election

Ending the Iraq War is the most pressing issue facing America today. I

The Editors

Enron’s Enablers

Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling would have remained small time crooks were it not for the energy industry deregulation measures they effectively purchased from Bush I and II.

Robert Scheer

Baseball in the Ashes

The last time the Detroit Tigers faced the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series, the Motor City was literally aflame. What's evident this time is that the city never rose from t...

Dave Zirin

Useful Idiots

Why did America's so-called liberal media find it so easy to support Bush's Iraq disaster? You won't find answers in the US media: Try The London Review of Books.

Nicholas von Hoffman

Show Him the Money

Diversity can be cringe-making, arbitrary, insincere and sappy. But take it away and you won't get more equality--you'll only get more privilege.

Katha Pollitt

The Myth of Microloans

Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus has helped a lot of poor women, but the basic problem in developing countries is landlessness. A $130 microloan won't solve that problem.

Alexander Cockburn

A Short History of ‘Cut and Run,’ Using the George W. Bush Definition

Calvin Trillin

Letters

NARAL, WFP FOLLOW PLAN GOP

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