DC Edges Closer to Representation DC Edges Closer to Representation
The residents of the District of Columbia go to war and pay taxes, but they have never had a member of Congress to call their own. A measure has been introduced in the House that c...
Aug 20, 2006 / Feature / Sam Schramski
Ground Zero for Immigration Ground Zero for Immigration
A recent rally at the World Trade Center site displayed anti-immigration activists' latest tactics: distorting the truth and exploiting national security concerns.
Aug 19, 2006 / Feature / Ali Winston
Congress Poised to Unravel the Internet Congress Poised to Unravel the Internet
Senator Ted Stevens has no idea how the Internet works, but he's asking Congress to remake it to suit the interests of the telecommunications industry. Can progressives apply the p...
Aug 18, 2006 / Feature / Jeffrey Chester
Old Threats, New Fears Old Threats, New Fears
Investigators have known for a decade about terrorist plots to bring down passenger jets with liquid explosives. So why, all of a sudden, did Bush ban most liquids on flights?
Aug 16, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer
From the Streets to the Polls From the Streets to the Polls
Young, US-born Hispanics who took to the streets to push for immigrant rights are hoping to become a potent political force in the midterm elections and beyond.
Aug 15, 2006 / Feature / Paloma Esquivel
Locked and Loaded Locked and Loaded
The Minutemen have been transformed from an extremist "citizen border patrol" to part of the neocon establishment. Has their leader sold out, or bought in?
Aug 15, 2006 / Feature / Susy Buchanan and David Holthouse
Dorothy Healey Dorothy Healey
An appreciation of one of the last members of the left's "greatest generation," known for her physical courage, warmth and intelligence, who spent a lifetime arguing eloquently for...
Aug 10, 2006 / Mike Davis
White Heat White Heat
Welcome to Nashville, Tennessee, the unlikely symbol of the biggest American immigrant resettlement since the Industrial Revolution. It's also the white-hot nexus of the new Americ...
Lamont Wins Lamont Wins
As the Democratic Party embraces Ned Lamont, it must also embrace his antiwar message: It proved a winning strategy for Connecticut, and will be for the midterm elections.
Aug 10, 2006 / The Editors
Mercenary Jackpot Mercenary Jackpot
As the United States decries the private militias of Lebanon and Iraq, GOP-connected, privately owned global mercenary firms receive blank checks and little oversight.
Aug 10, 2006 / Jeremy Scahill