Looking for Salvation in All the Wrong Places Looking for Salvation in All the Wrong Places
Progressive religious leaders should be sensitive to the danger that unexamined God-based public policy presents, whether it comes from the right or the left.
Apr 6, 2006 / Feature / Frances Kissling
Pledging Allegiance Pledging Allegiance
Todd Gitlin uses patriotism to wallop the radical left in The Intellectuals and the Flag.
Mar 2, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
Princeton Tilts Right Princeton Tilts Right
Robert George, the conservative movement's favorite professor, exerts his influence.
Feb 23, 2006 / Feature / Max Blumenthal
The New Face of the Campus Left The New Face of the Campus Left
Since the 1970s Republican conservatives have been the dominant political force on American campuses. But groups like Campus Progress, better groomed and better organized than thei...
Jan 26, 2006 / Feature / Sam Graham-Felsen
Rocking the House Rocking the House
The time is ripe for progressives to revitalize the state of our union: Americans are ready to undo the damage of the Bush era and turn to a just and peaceful future.
Jan 19, 2006 / The Editors
Newt’s New Con Newt’s New Con
No voice rings as hollow as Newt Gingrich's on the GOP culture of corruption. Incredibly, the media are swallowing his story.
Jan 12, 2006 / David Sirota
Shame of the Once-Young Republicans Shame of the Once-Young Republicans
What irony that Jack Abramoff and other once-young Republicans, who hectored their elders about defending the nation's taxpayers and security forces, should now be accused of deepl...
Jan 11, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer
Jack Gordon Jack Gordon
Jack Gordon, "the unabashedly liberal conscience of Florida's State Senate," was chosen majority leader at a time when his politics should have made him an anathema. His fight agai...
Jan 5, 2006 / Molly Ivins
The Case Against Alito The Case Against Alito
Samuel Alito would swing the Supreme Court to a right-wing authoritarianism that is out of step with the public and the Constitution.
Jan 5, 2006 / The Editors
A ‘Top Ten’ List of Bold Ideas A ‘Top Ten’ List of Bold Ideas
To take back the nation in the post-Bush era, start thinking now about some bold but plausible progressive reforms, from universal health insurance to free daycare and a shorter wo...
Jan 4, 2006 / Feature / Gar Alperovitz and Thad Williamson