America’s Online Censors America’s Online Censors
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco Systems are under fire from Congress for helping China censor and prosecute political dissidents. But a proposed law to guide technology companie...
Feb 24, 2006 / Feature / Rebecca MacKinnon
Bloggers at the Gate Bloggers at the Gate
Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, a k a MyDD and Daily Kos, propose to revive the Democratic Party with a technology-driven "bloodless coup."
Feb 24, 2006 / Feature / Ari Melber
The Boy Who Cried Wolf The Boy Who Cried Wolf
The Dubai Ports flap is bogus, but it's fun to see Democrats and Republicans frothing in unison. Hysteria has defined the Bush presidency; now the fearmonger-in-chief is getting a ...
Feb 23, 2006 / Feature / William Greider
Princeton Tilts Right Princeton Tilts Right
Robert George, the conservative movement's favorite professor, exerts his influence.
Feb 23, 2006 / Feature / Max Blumenthal
He’s Got a Little List He’s Got a Little List
The Nation is pleased that so many of its contributors are included on a right-wing list of the most dangerous academics in America.
Feb 23, 2006 / Richard Lingeman
Tortured Exceptionalism Tortured Exceptionalism
Despite a recent federal district court ruling, the prohibition on torture knows no geographical boundaries and applies to all, no matter what passport they hold--even Americans.
Feb 23, 2006 / David Cole
Leadership 101 Leadership 101
The lesson in Harvard president Lawrence Summers's sudden demise is that his brand of neoliberalism works better on blackboards than in the real world.
Feb 23, 2006 / The Editors
A Fabric of Illegality A Fabric of Illegality
The White House practices the dark arts of trashing whistleblowers who exposed prisoner abuse at Guantánamo and the warrantless spying program, adding another layer of illeg...
Feb 23, 2006 / The Editors
The Olympics We Missed The Olympics We Missed
The Winter Olympics are to NBC what icebergs were to the Titanic. Jingoistic, condescending coverage missed the real drama.
Feb 22, 2006 / Column / Dave Zirin
In Defense of Free Thought In Defense of Free Thought
An Austrian court sends a crackpot historian to prison for denying the Holocaust; why shouldn't Muslims protesting the Muhammad cartoons question a double standard?
Feb 22, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer