Spring Hill: Another Utopia Bites the Dust Spring Hill: Another Utopia Bites the Dust
General Motors is dimming the headlights on its industrial utopia in Spring Hill, Tennessee. The cutback at the visionary Saturn plant, where workers and managers once shared decis...
Dec 7, 2005 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
The Silencing of Carlos Delgado The Silencing of Carlos Delgado
The New York Mets' squelching of first baseman Carlos Delgado's longstanding protest of the war in Iraq during the seventh-inning stretch speaks volumes about how the rules of the ...
Dec 7, 2005 / Feature / Dave Zirin
Democracy for Sale Democracy for Sale
A trove of new documents detailing the corruption and influence-peddling by Jack Abramoff, Ralph Reed and Tom DeLay is sweeping the high-minded prophets of the Republican revolutio...
Dec 7, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
Dictionary of Republicanisms Sequel Dictionary of Republicanisms Sequel
I want to thank again all the loyal readers whose outpouring of interest and words of kindness have made The Dictionary of Republicanisms such a rewarding experience. All of us mu...
Dec 6, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
John Murtha’s Johnstown John Murtha’s Johnstown
If you want to better understand how public opinion on the war in Iraq has reached a turning point, visit Johnstown in Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional district. It's a socially ...
Dec 5, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
An Antiwar Challenge to Hillary Clinton An Antiwar Challenge to Hillary Clinton
Former National Writers Union president Jonathan Tasini, one of the most outspoken progressive activists in the U.S. labor movement, is expected this week to launch a Democratic p...
Dec 5, 2005 / John Nichols
Anybody Want to Buy a Newspaper? Anybody Want to Buy a Newspaper?
Under pressure from Wall Street, newspaper journalism is being frog-marched out of the media marketplace. And once it's gone, how will we know anything?
Dec 2, 2005 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
Ban Torture or Protect Torturers? Ban Torture or Protect Torturers?
A showdown looms in Congress this week over two competing measures involving bedrock human and legal rights: John McCain's legislation to ban all forms of torture and Lindsey Graha...
Dec 2, 2005 / Feature / Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
AIDS Movement Seizes Control AIDS Movement Seizes Control
Despite its controversy, World AIDS Day has demonstrated how vast and global the AIDS movement has gone. While the extent of AIDS advocacy was not as far-reaching then, in 1987 a b...
Dec 2, 2005 / Feature / Mark Gevisser
Release Them Unharmed Release Them Unharmed
Congress returns to DC today, December 6, after a recess and a coalition of groups, led by our friends at Democrats.com are welcoming them with an antiwar message. This National C...
Dec 2, 2005 / Peter Rothberg