America’s Most Trusted Source of News: Ourselves America’s Most Trusted Source of News: Ourselves
Rather than let pundits guide our public policy debates, citizens must seize the initiative and join the conversation.
Jun 27, 2006 / Nikolas Bowie
Bush and the Ten Commandments Bush and the Ten Commandments
No President in living memory is as overtly religious as George W. Bush. But just how well have the President and his henchmen kept the commandments?
Jun 26, 2006 / Brooke Allen and Patrick Doyle
The Plot Against America The Plot Against America
John Updike's Terrorist rips its plot from the headlines. But the book's Irish-Egyptian protagonist is paper-thin, and its jihad-lit plot remains stubbornly inanimate, devoid of pa...
Jun 26, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Shainin
Generation Lockdown Generation Lockdown
California's juvenile justice system is broken everywhere you look. An ambitious plan for reform could bring much-needed improvements, but does it go far enough?
Jun 25, 2006 / Feature / Mark Sorkin
Biker Mecca on Sacred Ground Biker Mecca on Sacred Ground
Native American activists are braced for a tense summer, as a motorcycling entrepreneur goes forward with plans for a resort that will draw hundreds of thousands of bikers to the s...
Jun 24, 2006 / Feature / Anne Keala Kelly
The Uses and Abuses of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi The Uses and Abuses of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was a really bad guy. But the Bush Administration's armchair warriors mythologized him into a self-fulfilling prophecy of insurgent terror.
Jun 21, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
The People Versus AIDS The People Versus AIDS
If the United Nations is to keep its promise to grant people with AIDS universal access to treatment by 2010, it will be because activists are holding world leaders accountable.
Jun 21, 2006 / Richard Kim
Drug Busts=Jim Crow Drug Busts=Jim Crow
The drug war is the heir to Jim Crow: a form of widespread, legalized discrimination.
Jun 21, 2006 / Feature / Ira Glasser
‘They Deserve It’ ‘They Deserve It’
Prison rape is not a dirty joke; it's one of the most frequent and widespread human rights abuses in America.
Hey Guys, It’s Just a Game Hey Guys, It’s Just a Game
Soccer's not for wimps, but Team America and its fans have brought a decidedly militarist mindset to the World Cup.
Jun 20, 2006 / Feature / Dave Zirin and John Cox