The Left

Straw Liberals and False Prophets Straw Liberals and False Prophets

One big problem with liberal and leftist debate about Al Qaeda or Iraq is that it rarely seems to have much to do with Al Qaeda or Iraq.

Nov 21, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman

And Now the Good News And Now the Good News

CORRECTION: John Eder of Maine, a Green, won state, not national, office.

Nov 14, 2002 / John Nichols

Take Two Aspirin Take Two Aspirin

Well, the elephant is out of the barn now. Congress is lost and whither Congress, so will go the courts.

Nov 14, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Hawks at the Washington Post Hawks at the Washington Post

The house organ for America's political class is pushing Bush's case for war.

Oct 24, 2002 / Feature / Michael Massing

The Left and 9/11 The Left and 9/11

Sparks fly in the debate over the war on terror.

Sep 5, 2002 / Feature / Adam Shatz

Israel and ‘Anti-Semitism’ Israel and ‘Anti-Semitism’

Right in the wake of House majority leader Dick Armey's explicit call for several million Palestinians to be booted out of the West Bank, and East Jerusalem and Gaza as well, c...

May 16, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

The Real David Brock The Real David Brock

When incurable liberals like Todd Gitlin and Eric Alterman begin using the name Whittaker Chambers as a term of approbation, we are entitled to say that there has been what the Ger...

May 9, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Paul Wellstone, Fighter Paul Wellstone, Fighter

The Senate's most progressive member is in the fight of his life.

May 9, 2002 / Feature / John Nichols

Progressive Blooms Progressive Blooms

As Molly Ivins put it in a recent column: "Across the length and breadth of this land of ours, from the mountain to the prairie, from every hill and dale comes the question, 'Wher...

Apr 18, 2002 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Thunderstruck on the Right Thunderstruck on the Right

My sister-in-law, a historian and researcher in alternative medicine, once told me of a doctoral dissertation she'd happened across in which the writer interviewed a number of com...

Mar 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Michael Tomasky

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