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The attacks of September 11, 2001, ushered in a multitude of legal transformations that restrict civil liberties in the name of national security.

When Attorney General John Ashcroft felt obliged to go out campaigning in August in defense of the USA Patriot Act, his problem wasn’t just what people were saying about the act.

Peasants, punks, students, green activists, union workers, social leaders and many more will meet in Cancún to say no to the WTO. The Zapatista Army has also announced it will participat

The basic mistake of American policy in Iraq is not that the Pentagon–believing the fairy tales told it by Iraqi exile groups and overriding State Department advice–forgot, when planning “reg

Venezuela appeared to take a couple of steps closer to a recall referendum on the presidency of Hugo Chávez in recent weeks, but there is little chance that he will be removed by elector

While the national media gaze has fixed upon the battle to move a two-and-a-half-ton Ten Commandments monument out of view in the state’s judiciary building, Alabama is about to have its most i

With its daily dominance of the headlines and a stellar cast from the worlds of government, secret intelligence and the media, the Hutton inquiry, playing here until the end of the month, is ea

Anniversaries are historical page markers; they denote a time to pause and reflect.

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One of the problems with the media coverage of this Administration is that it requires bad manners.

“The nerve! Not so! That word still rankles.”
“You’re sinking. I can’t see your ankles.”
“The thugs are here; we now just squeeze.”

I’d like to say that I came across the poet Agha Shahid Ali of my own accord, browsing through the shelves of a bookshop or library and taking immediately to his finely structured verse.

“I have never had such a bad feeling about a war ever before,” wrote Sha Twa Nee on the Prophecy Club message board in April.