The Fight for the Future of Music The Fight for the Future of Music
America stands on the cusp of a sweeping set of shifts in federal media ownership rules that could dramatically alter the nature of what we see, hear and read, warns Federal Commi...
Jan 6, 2003 / John Nichols
Death Penalty Talking Points Death Penalty Talking Points
While the death penalty is legal in most of the US, executions are increasingly taking place only in the South, according to the end-of-the-year report from the Death Penalty Inf...
Jan 2, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
No Room for Logic in Bush Foreign Policy No Room for Logic in Bush Foreign Policy
Darn, but those weapons of mass destruction keep turning up in the wrong places.
Jan 2, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
Cell Phones, HMOs and Single-Payer Cell Phones, HMOs and Single-Payer
Dr. Marc answers readers' question every other week. To send a query, click here.
Dec 24, 2002 / Column / Dr. Marc Siegel
Is She Dr. Laura or Dr. Strange Love? Is She Dr. Laura or Dr. Strange Love?
Some family values.
Dec 24, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
The Other War The Other War
Mattie White remembers July 23, 1999, as the day her life was turned upside down.
Dec 24, 2002 / Feature / Silja J.A. Talvi
‘The Politics Were on the Street’ ‘The Politics Were on the Street’
The punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s seized the power of rock-and-roll back from the corporate conglomerates that had warped the music into a flabby, over-produced, stadium-ro...
Dec 23, 2002 / John Nichols
Tap Roots Tap Roots
It's a shame that Savion Glover is trying so hard to hide from the world, because he's the greatest tap dancer who ever breathed.
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Diane Rafferty
Sweet Soul Music Sweet Soul Music
As Trent Lott struggled to "repudiate" segregation fifty years after it was outlawed, about the only point he left out of his incoherent counterattack is that he was a soul-mus...
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
Does Europe Do It Better? Does Europe Do It Better?
In more than fifteen years of rock-and-roll touring, my worst night of sleep followed a June 10, 1989, show at Centro Sociale Leoncavallo, an anticapitalist squat in Milan.
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Johnny Temple