July 19, 2005
Karl Rove may well have leaked the identity of an agent, but was he covering up a trail that leads to the vice president.
Tuesday 11:00 AM
What in the world could make Harry Reid and Bill Frist work together? Curiously, one of the most serious global problems: water.
Tuesday 10:16 AM
In their rush to support stem cell research and counter religious zealots, too many liberals are ready to cozy up with the biotech industry.
Tuesday 9:24 AM
July 18, 2005
When you sift through the hype, the Plame affair is about how the Bush White House deceived Congress and the electorate.
Monday 2:32 PM
Is there a better symbol of how the war for Iraq has already been lost than our ignorance about the cost of the war to Iraqis?
Monday 12:08 PM
The United States didn't invade Iraq for the commercial benefits of oil. It invaded to control the black gold as a strategic commodity.
Monday 9:19 AM
July 15, 2005
Big business is spending a lot of money to influence the president's nomination for the Supreme Court.
Friday 9:56 AM
The Army's recruiting tactics, those notorious bootstraps and eminent domain: Readers react in this week's installment of letters.
Friday 9:44 AM
Overturning
Roe v. Wade will not take abortion off the table but it will put women's lives back into the hands of politicians.
Friday 9:17 AM
July 14, 2005
We're working harder than ever, but wages are far from keeping up. And that makes for an unsteady, unstable economy.
Thursday 9:52 AM
Blair should do what Bush has not: Address the legitimate needs, grievances and aspirations of the Arab-Asian world.
Thursday 9:44 AM
Conservative hacks and pundits have begun their cynical defense of Bush's brain. Here's what they're planning.
Thursday 8:42 AM
July 13, 2005
The difference between the values conservatives trumpet and progressive values are as simple as private and public.
Wednesday 9:42 AM
The enemy of our enemy may still be the enemy of democracy.
Wednesday 8:38 AM
The military may not be effective against the insurgency, but its Internet recruiting campaign is a precision-guided weapon.
Wednesday 8:35 AM
Bush finally may have gotten the point at Gleneagles: The only way to get climate change off the agenda is to solve it.
Wednesday 7:53 AM
July 12, 2005
In defending himself against bias to a Senate committee yesterday, the CPB chairman missed the point about public broadcasting's mission.
Tuesday 10:06 AM
This week, Dems meet to look ahead to '08 with an eye on making the nomination process more egalitarian.
Tuesday 9:45 AM
London, Iraq, O'Connor and Rove are distracting Washington from a looming financial crisis, not seen since 1933.
Tuesday 9:28 AM
How conservatives deploy the psychology of personal responsibility to obscure racism and inequality.
Tuesday 9:26 AM
July 11, 2005
At last week's G8 Summit, President Bush once again used terrorism to change the subject.
Monday 10:32 AM
Putting one new conservative on the Supreme Court could threaten not only abortion rights, but contraception.
Monday 9:55 AM
The FCC's decisions about broadband put competition before access—and effectively close off the Internet for millions.
Monday 9:44 AM
July 08, 2005
Pulling the plug on subsidies for U.S. agribusiness could mean economic independence for Africa.
Friday 9:02 AM
The ruling on eminent domain begs the question—are "economic development" tax breaks worth it?
Friday 9:01 AM
Using the "L" word, defining desecration. Readers react in this week's installment of letters.
Friday 8:51 AM
July 07, 2005
Why is Judith Miller in jail? Here's a theory: Robert Novak squealed to the feds to cover Karl Rove's backside.
Thursday 8:15 AM
The GOP revealed that its highest priority in the Social Security fight is private accounts. That's an opportunity for Dems.
Thursday 8:10 AM
July 06, 2005
Tony Blair has a chance to do the right thing for impoverished nations and redeem himself in one step. The time to challenge Bush is now.
Wednesday 3:30 PM
The new president of Iran was attacked by an unholy alliance that links Richard Perle, Rick Santorum and terrorists in Iraq.
Wednesday 10:16 AM
The low interest rates keeping the economy alive can only be explained by one, worrying conclusion: global economic fear.
Wednesday 9:28 AM
Why is it so hard for Capitol Hill to clamp down on corporations who set up offshore tax havens?
Wednesday 9:00 AM
July 05, 2005
When Bush goes to the G8 Summit this week, he'll be trying to sell a nuclear power agenda that is all subsidies, no substance.
Tuesday 10:02 AM
Do Trent Lott and Tom DeLay know what they're doing? On the unintended consequences of the flag amendment.
Tuesday 9:14 AM
July 01, 2005
Thomas Paine has often been the forgotten—and sometimes the ostracized—Founding Father.
Friday 3:36 PM
A former Kennedy aide and liberal scholar reminds us to take pride in America on its 229th birthday.
Friday 10:41 AM
A new GOP Social Security bill takes on a popular program—and destroys it.
Friday 9:02 AM
If Bolton gets to the UN, we can be certain he would do everything to keep it from preventing war with Iran.
Friday 9:00 AM
The Downing Street memos, Bush's "empathy" and defining an insurgency: Readers weigh in.
Friday 8:15 AM
June 30, 2005
Energy bill got you down? Here's a formula for paring the deficit and securing the environment.
Thursday 9:54 AM
The Baker-Carter commission on election reform meets today—embodying many of the flaws of the U.S. election system.
Thursday 9:31 AM
Are progressives snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by criticizing the G8 agreement on debt cancellation?
Thursday 9:10 AM
For America to regain its competitive edge, single-payer health care must be part of the solution.
Thursday 8:08 AM
June 29, 2005
Nice try, George. If Iraq is going to be viable and Americans are to come home, the right people must get to the right table.
Wednesday 10:10 AM
The energy bill passed yesterday was a lost opportunity to lead America toward security and prosperity.
Wednesday 9:50 AM
The CPB's Ken Tomlinson has a record of meddling with the independence of public broadcasting—and maybe even blacklisting.
Wednesday 9:30 AM
June 28, 2005
With public opinion turning against the war and the insurgency strong, history presents a compelling case for how to get out.
Tuesday 10:13 AM
Tonight, President Bush will tell the nation we must stay the course. One outspoken general knows that's losing advice.
Tuesday 9:20 AM
The new EPA administrator faces a big test over the nation's most serious air pollution problem. Will industry or science win?
Tuesday 9:13 AM
If the president cares about his legacy, he will nominate a U.N. ambassador with a reputation for cooperation, not contention.
Tuesday 9:12 AM
June 27, 2005
When Bush argued for privatization and cuts to Social Security, he gave Dems a softball. That won't happen again.
Monday 9:56 AM
An influential oil industry expert has demonstrated that Saudi oil production is peaking—and the planet isn't ready.
Monday 9:37 AM
June 24, 2005
The Downing Street memos confirm that Bush initiated the war with Iraq in May 2002, seeking to provoke Saddam Hussein and soften his defenses.
Friday 10:15 AM
Saving public broadcasting; contemplating Iraq's future; aiding Africa: Readers react in this week's installment of letters.
Friday 9:41 AM
June 23, 2005
How the president wins the hearts and minds of blue-collar America.
Thursday 12:14 PM
What the recent newspaper series on class get right—and wrong.
Thursday 11:09 AM
June 22, 2005
With the Downing Street momentum building, it's time to dispel some of the smoke Bush's surrogates are blowing.
Wednesday 11:39 AM
U.S. policy toward Africa is based on the erroneous ideas that Africa can lift itself out of poverty and America is providing enough.
Wednesday 9:31 AM
More than proving Bush's intent to go to war, the Downing Street memos offer evidence that Bush's primary case for war was false.
Wednesday 8:51 AM
June 21, 2005
The guy who wrote the "impartial" review of "Now With Bill Moyers" has a history of connections to conserative groups.
Tuesday 10:26 AM
Thirty years ago, America was a refuge for people fleeing persecution. Not anymore.
Tuesday 10:05 AM
The White House is trying to sell CAFTA to Congress by making promises all evidence shows it won't keep.
Tuesday 9:45 AM
June 20, 2005
Public television's mission and its reason for existence is to enrich America's cultural literacy.
Monday 4:50 PM
The Downing Street Memos confirm the existence of presidential deceit, even if they don't prove it. In other words, probable cause.
Monday 11:20 AM
The Downing Street Memos still do not answer the question of why the president wanted a war. Fortunately, Bush did that himself.
Monday 10:11 AM
Last week, the Senate voted for clean, renewable energy. The House, meanwhile, wants more toxic emissions.
Monday 9:50 AM
June 17, 2005
The Iraqi soldiers of Charlie Company reveal the fantasy behind the centerpiece of the Bush administration's Iraq strategy.
Friday 10:48 AM
Instead of another coffee mug or a tie, let's give fathers—especially new fathers—something they could really use.
Friday 9:19 AM
Stem cells, Dean and the economics of choice: Readers react in this week's installment of letters.
Friday 9:01 AM
June 16, 2005
Even as public sentiment turns against the war, most Democratic leaders refuse to take a stand.
Thursday 10:24 AM
In football, spending caps keep the playing field equal. A new court decision could do the same thing for campaigns.
Thursday 10:01 AM
The reviled PATRIOT act is back in the news. But an unlikely alliance is working to improve its most dangerous clauses.
Thursday 9:41 AM
June 15, 2005
The Downing Street Memo revealed that Sherwood Baker died in Iraq defending Bush's public misinformation campaign.
Wednesday 11:02 AM
Reagan had it wrong. Climate change and ecosystem depletion are so pervasive that business, on its own, cannot lead far enough or fast enough.
Wednesday 9:54 AM
Bush is about to exacerbate earthly nuclear proliferation by establishing U.S. hegemony over the heavens.
Wednesday 9:39 AM
June 14, 2005
Confused by the mixed messages on Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo? That's exactly what the Bush administration wants.
Tuesday 10:55 AM
Why is it when a Democrat begins to get tough, other Dems head for the cameras to assure everyone he doesn't speak for them?
Tuesday 10:46 AM
Conservatives protesting government oversight might want to distance themselves from the likes of DeLay and Abramoff.
Tuesday 10:45 AM
June 13, 2005
With serious investigative reporting on the wane, it's time to revive the journalistic oversight that supports democracy.
Monday 10:36 AM
Newly leaked documents reveal the extent of the British cabinet's concern over America's disrespect for international law.
Monday 10:10 AM
Limiting reproductive freedom is a perfect formula for economic backwardness.
Monday 9:34 AM
June 10, 2005
The campaign to legalize marijuana for medical use deserves a home in the Democratic Party.
Friday 10:36 AM
Taking all spending into account, the federal government spends 68 cents of every dollar on defense.
Friday 10:25 AM
Bill Moyers' call to save America and green global trade: Readers react in this week's installment of letters.
Friday 9:37 AM
Bush's nomination of Christopher Cox to be chairman of the SEC could not have happened at a worse time—for anyone who wants to retire.
Friday 9:37 AM
June 09, 2005
Appointing Zalmay Khalilzad as ambassador to Iraq shows just how detached from reality the White House (and the Democrats) are.
Thursday 10:22 AM
Forget the lousy managment style. John Bolton was one of the principal architects of Bush's manufactured Iraq intelligence.
Thursday 10:16 AM
David Corn has a few solutions for the GOP's troubled concscience over those frozen embryos.
Thursday 9:29 AM
Here are the five things Paul Wolfowitz must do to restore credibility and legitimacy to the Bank.
Thursday 9:25 AM
June 08, 2005
Forty years ago, our nation took a great step forward by enshrining privacy as a right. Now's not the time to roll it back.
Wednesday 10:43 AM
Looking for a way to reduce global warming and Third World poverty while saving the world's forests? Look no further.
Wednesday 10:30 AM
June 07, 2005
The son of the 20th century's most famous progressive economist applies his father's values and ideas to the problems facing America today.
Tuesday 8:20 AM
June 06, 2005
Last week's cross burnings in North Carolina recall civil rights struggles and the significance of judicial nominees.
Monday 11:17 AM
It wasn't supposed to be this way. America was not meant to have a "government of the few at the expense of the many."
Monday 11:08 AM
June 03, 2005
Disappearing pensions, what to do about Iraq, the Dems and women: Readers react in this week's installment of letters.
Friday 9:44 AM
June 02, 2005
Los Angeles' mayor-elect speaks about a new agenda for California—and America—based on our shared values.
Thursday 1:10 PM
Bush's rhetoric about promoting freedom doesn't match up with the regimes he arms.
Thursday 1:02 PM
June 01, 2005
A roundup of TomPaine.com's original analysis and commentary on the British memo known as the "Downing Street Memo."
Wednesday 10:00 AM
With the leaked Downing Street Memo, the legal case for impeachment is clear. The question is how to overcome media and political inertia.
Wednesday 9:43 AM
A team of foreign policy experts says a strong set of principles will keep America more secure than Bush's opaque agenda has.
Wednesday 9:29 AM
Low-income students don't need military recruiters. They need more education options.
Wednesday 9:28 AM
May 31, 2005
Is the Democratic Party's obsession with framing pushing women out of the picture?
Tuesday 10:20 AM
America just saw the largest pension plan default in corporate history. Where's the progressive movement?
Tuesday 10:08 AM
CAFTA protects big Ag and Pharma and freely trades good American jobs for Wal-Mart jobs. We can do better.
Tuesday 9:39 AM
May 30, 2005
Two Gulf War veterans on how our desire to end the war in Iraq should not overshadow our obligation to Iraqis.
Monday 10:34 AM
This Memorial Day draws attention to Americans who have died in Iraq. It's a wonder the White House hasn't tried to ban it.
Monday 9:42 AM
With the situation in Iraq at its bleakest, it's time for Democrats to do battle with Republicans.
Monday 9:30 AM
May 27, 2005
Largely unnoticed in the mainstream media, President Bush has ordered a new strategic doctrine of "global strike."
Friday 1:20 PM
PBS is under attack. Networks bow to political pressure. Are cable channels like Showtime the last bastion of independence?
Friday 9:50 AM
Just saying no to FoxNews; Beatty for president; ignoring the evidence: Readers react in this week's installment of letters.
Friday 9:47 AM
May 26, 2005
While the Bush administration has been busy castigating
Newsweek, it's turned a blind eye to torture and terror in Uzbekistan.
Thursday 9:07 AM
Bush's meeting today with the Palestinian president can lead to a conflict-ending agreement. But first, Bush and Abbas must make tough promises—and keep them.
Thursday 8:55 AM
May 25, 2005
The retrograde energy bill now in the Senate ignores our 21st-century challenges.
Wednesday 9:40 AM
May 24, 2005
An opportunity to fix America's broken voter registries may be lost if citizens don't speak up today.
Tuesday 11:23 AM
It's time to reject the muscle-bound conservatism practiced by the governor of the world's fifth-largest economy.
Tuesday 10:46 AM
Mainstream economics cannot account for the impact of invention, innovation, adaptation and diffusion—the keys to rescuing our future.
Tuesday 9:59 AM
May 23, 2005
Both the Quran story and
Newsweek's earlier reporting about WMDs shed light on the "real" reporting rules the media follow.
Monday 9:54 AM
A true, functional ownership society isn't an idealistic dream. In fact, it's already at work in several states and communities.
Monday 9:32 AM
Why are the media practically ignoring the Downing Street memo about Iraq? The Democrats, for one thing.
Monday 9:25 AM
May 20, 2005
The president of the National Urban League gives a history lesson to those now using the civil rights struggle to attack the filibuster.
Friday 8:49 AM
Were you inspired by Bill Moyers' recent speech about media reform? Here's your users' guide to making it happen.
Friday 8:16 AM
Laura Bush's comedy, Bill Moyers' call to action, and more on exit polling in Ohio. Readers react in this week's installment of letters.
Friday 8:15 AM
May 19, 2005
America's economic anxiety is called into the boardroom.
Thursday 10:37 AM
A new report shows documented incidents of Islamophobia have increased by 52 percent in the past year.
Thursday 9:40 AM
Earlier this week, bloggers and other geeks gathered to discuss how technology can change politics in America.
Thursday 9:38 AM
May 18, 2005
What the media's
mea culpa on their failure to accurately cover Social Security might look like.
Wednesday 9:30 AM
In the playing field of the Senate, you can't just take your ball and go home.
Wednesday 8:59 AM
None of the White House's legal options in the Posada case fit its political agenda.
Wednesday 8:57 AM
May 17, 2005
The more compelling
NOW's journalism, the angrier the radical right of the Republican party became.
Tuesday 9:29 AM
Increasing the minimum wage isn't just good progressive policy—it's popular with voters.
Tuesday 8:41 AM
Republican contortions over education funding beg the question: How much do they really care about education?
Tuesday 8:39 AM
May 16, 2005
Was the first lady's risqué comedy routine harmless fun that paid political dividends, or a calculated slap at the religious right?
Monday 10:27 AM
Barriers to organizing in the United States condemn workers like those at Angelica Textile Services to sweatshop conditions.
Monday 10:15 AM
It's time to wrestle with the tough questions and find a way out of Iraq.
Monday 9:58 AM
May 13, 2005
Last night's party for DeLay shows just how willing conservatives are to sacrifice principles for power.
Friday 11:38 AM
What's behind General Electric's new eco-friendly initiative?
Friday 11:22 AM
The more workers produce, the more bosses will pay, right? Not in this economy.
Friday 10:25 AM
The only election reform bill Republicans want to advance is one that does nothing—or takes us backwards.
Friday 9:29 AM
Exit polls, working moms and sleeping watchdogs. Readers react in this week's installment of letters.
Friday 8:42 AM
May 12, 2005
The sordid tale of how Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff greased the wheels to keep a for-profit American labor gulag humming.
Thursday 10:05 AM
The latest news from North Carolina is the logical, inevitable result of the road taken by the religious right and some Republicans.
Thursday 8:15 AM
May 11, 2005
John Bolton deliberately used discredited intelligence to support the president's case for war.
Wednesday 7:37 PM
With one day left, a leader in the Bolton battle gives the inside track on the forces at play.
Wednesday 12:55 PM
Imagine if every White House press corps member refused to ask another question until Bush answered the ones he's ignoring.
Wednesday 10:20 AM
By reducing their coverage of the filibuster to a Beltway power struggle, the media obscures the real issues at stake.
Wednesday 10:19 AM
John Bolton's record is anathema to the principles of neoconservatives. And yet they are flocking to his defense.
Wednesday 10:03 AM
May 10, 2005
Neocon Paul Wolfowitz takes over the World Bank next month. Now's the time to take stock of his predecessor's legacy.
Tuesday 10:42 AM
The United States' security budget favors military spending over non-military spending 9 to 1. It's time to rebalance.
Tuesday 10:39 AM
NOW's president says privatizing Social Security is foolish and irresponsible—and women aren't buying it.
Tuesday 7:16 AM
May 09, 2005
The GOP's Xenophobe Caucus is poised to get national ID card legislation passed.
Monday 9:29 AM
May 06, 2005
This year, why don't we give mothers national politicies that truly support families?
Friday 9:50 AM
It's time corporate America wakes up to the fact that working mothers are the norm, not the exception.
Friday 8:34 AM
Bush's Social Security plan, the anti-war movement and a smoking memo. Readers respond in this week's installment of letters.
Friday 6:40 AM
May 05, 2005
Two new studies look at why the exit poll results were wrong for the 2004 presidential election.
Thursday 12:55 PM
In deciding to attack contraception, the religious right is taking on nearly all American women.
Thursday 8:47 AM
May 04, 2005
Politicization is far too mild a word. The intelligence on Iraq was not mistaken, it was manufactured. This was mass deception. And we have the smoking memo.
Wednesday 11:16 AM
The fate of Arab democracy is in the hands of local civil society groups—not the White House or the Green Zone.
Wednesday 9:43 AM
May 03, 2005
Can Wal-Mart be competitive
and offer workers decent pay and benefits? Yes—if it so chooses.
Tuesday 9:26 AM
It's important to protect the core mission of NCLB, but doing so at all costs shortchanges America's children.
Tuesday 9:24 AM
The leak of a highly classified memo finally confirms that Bush decided to invade Iraq and to deceive America a year before the invasion.
Tuesday 8:59 AM
May 02, 2005
A British memo does what American politicians won't: question the president's legal authority to wage war in Iraq.
Monday 11:30 AM
Thirty years ago, Vietnam war protesters were united by the unequivocal horrors of that war. But in Iraq, there are too many unanswered questions and too much ambivalence to rally the anti-warriors.
Monday 11:25 AM
It's time we look beyond our individual investments to make corporations better global citizens.
Monday 9:22 AM
April 29, 2005
The president's attempt to boost his polling numbers was a call to worsen our economic crisis.
Friday 10:13 AM
The president's Social Security proposal would convert a popular universal system into a marginal poverty program.
Friday 9:47 AM
Last night's press conference shows Bush is more interested in conserving his poll numbers than energy.
Friday 9:28 AM
Wal-Mart, faith and sarcasm: Readers react in this week's installment of letters.
Friday 9:17 AM
April 28, 2005
An Iraq veteran explains how Abu Ghraib was symptomatic of the wide-ranging problems in the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Thursday 10:25 AM
One year and 10 investigations later, Human Rights Watch says it is time to prosecute the architects of Abu Ghraib.
Thursday 9:44 AM
The Democrats could stand to be far more partisan than they have been. After all, there's no one called "The Hammer" on their side of the aisle.
Thursday 9:11 AM
April 27, 2005
The Bolton battle, while not over, should show Dems that fighting the White House to the end pays dividends.
Wednesday 11:41 AM
April 26, 2005
Can the Saudis really do anything to reduce oil prices?
Tuesday 10:22 AM
Washington state just passed legislation that is pro-jobs, pro-environment and saves taxpayer dollars. The future is here.
Tuesday 10:21 AM
Bush gambled that his first-term tax cuts would be followed by second-term spending cuts. Now the house is calling in its markers.
Tuesday 9:02 AM
April 25, 2005
Sinister, powerful liberals are attacking you, your children and everything you believe in. Despite all evidence to the contrary, it's the conservative rallying cry.
Monday 9:43 AM
The Bolton nomination represents the last stand against a generation of corrupt officials inside the intelligence community.
Monday 9:19 AM
A Baptist says politicians cheapen the religion they seek to embrace when they push partisan politics in churches.
Monday 9:12 AM
April 22, 2005
Why are states able to pass legislation that is good for the planet and creates jobs, while Washington subsidizes rich polluters?
Friday 10:50 AM
Think Earth Day is fast becoming a corporate marketing tool? It's a sideshow to more sophisticated shareholder activism.
Friday 9:42 AM
No Child Left Behind, Iraq and Bolton: Readers react in this week's installment of letters.
Friday 9:30 AM
If you want something to celebrate this Earth Day, turn to Ottawa, not Washington.
Friday 8:55 AM
April 21, 2005
The Bolton hearings uncovered two ways to politicize intelligence: to threaten analysts directly and to 'Boltonize.'
Thursday 11:25 AM
The Bentonville giant couldn't survive without China's wage suppression and a helping hand from Uncle Sam.
Thursday 9:38 AM
April 20, 2005
The energy bill doesn't even meet
Bush's environmental principles, and makes taxpayers pay $29 billion to clean up industry's mess.
Wednesday 9:58 AM
U.S. PIRG says what the energy bill lacks in solutions for the nation's energy problems it makes up in tax breaks for industry.
Wednesday 9:57 AM
April 19, 2005
The problem with holding elections under hostile occupation has finally reared its hoary head. Can civil war be avoided?
Tuesday 9:37 AM
The most successful speculator in the nation's housing bubble has been George W. Bush.
Tuesday 8:37 AM
April 18, 2005
Stem cell research is controversial enough without letting the biotech foxes have control of the henhouse.
Monday 9:58 AM
If what's good for GM is good for America, then America needs a single-payer health care plan.
Monday 8:56 AM
April 15, 2005
Why not tax things we want less of?
Friday 10:20 AM
Republicans in the House are pushing an anti-immigrant bill in the name of national security.
Friday 10:16 AM
Oprah, terrorism and Tom DeLay. Readers react in this week's installment of letters.
Friday 10:00 AM
Let's harken back to those halcyon days when wealth was taxed as much as work.
Friday 9:39 AM
April 14, 2005
Are the changes to the federal education law meant to help all children succeed —or just a public relations stunt?
Thursday 10:10 AM
April 13, 2005
John Bolton's confirmation hearings expose the culture of political intimidation pervading the intelligence community.
Wednesday 4:58 PM
America's failure in Iraq has pointed Arab thinkers towards international law as much as democracy.
Wednesday 12:51 PM
With prominent Republicans publicly denouncing him, how much longer will Tom DeLay survive as majority leader?
Wednesday 8:44 AM
April 12, 2005
The Republicans are constantly moving the goalposts on the Social Security debate— but the American public is wising up.
Tuesday 10:47 AM
The American belief in the power of the individual creates a society where the odds for many citizens are nearly impossible to overcome.
Tuesday 10:46 AM
April 11, 2005
A campaign finance law that gives 1,000 people the same political clout as one other person isn't democratic.
Monday 9:38 AM
John Bolton's confirmation has been postponed to this week. It's time to stop the Cheney takeover of the United Nations before it starts.
Monday 9:36 AM
April 08, 2005
Major announcements last week showed the danger of the centrist obsession with Islamic extremism.
Friday 10:00 AM
Readers react in this week's installment of letters.
Friday 9:53 AM
A media critic says the op-ed page is no longer the marketplace of ideas it was established to be.
Friday 7:25 AM
April 07, 2005
Gary Gardner says the greatest challenges facing the next pope will come from the environment—and our gluttony.
Thursday 10:48 AM
Robert Reich says the Fed's pre-emptive war against inflation means poorer Americans will be the first to be drafted.
Thursday 10:04 AM
April 06, 2005
Joe Stiglitz questions whether Bush can spread democracy abroad when he undermines it at home.
Wednesday 10:52 AM
Frank O'Donnell offers the cautionary tale that is today's General Motors.
Wednesday 9:47 AM
Rami Khouri knows Bush is not serious about democracy—and advises his occupier accordingly.
Wednesday 9:40 AM
The Senate budget ain't no picnic, but its cousin in the House is still worse.
Wednesday 9:16 AM
April 05, 2005
Kofi Annan has a powerful vision for global peace and security that's anathema to John Bolton and the neocons.
Tuesday 9:55 AM
April 04, 2005
John Paul II was against the death penalty, the war in Iraq and, says countryman Marcin Król, unfettered capitalism.
Monday 10:45 AM
John Prados on how the president manipulated America. Twice.
Monday 9:57 AM
It's not just Dems who are against the nuclear option, says Ralph Neas. Some dyed-in-the wool GOPers are saying no, too.
Monday 9:42 AM
April 01, 2005
From the Schiavo tragedy to pro-life pharmacists, personal rights are under attack. It's time progressives fought back.
Friday 10:19 AM
Struggling students don't need lessons about moral values from the president—they need financial aid.
Friday 10:17 AM
March 31, 2005
Readers react in this week's installment of letters.
Thursday 5:14 PM
Nick Penniman asks why the GOP is defending someone who repeatedly embarrasses the party.
Thursday 9:40 AM
A major new study confirms the worst: we've depleted the Earth's resources beyond any simple cure.
Thursday 9:38 AM
A community development experts explains the dangers of Bush's obsession with ownership.
Thursday 9:37 AM
March 30, 2005
Jonathan Tasini puts the recent crop of management dismissals at Wal-Mart in context.
Wednesday 2:40 PM
The Democrats' confusion on the Schiavo case may help them, says David Corn.
Wednesday 8:58 AM
Why the media cover some protesters and not others is a matter of bias, says FAIR's Jeff Cohen.
Wednesday 8:35 AM
March 28, 2005
Ray McGovern calls for a clean national intelligence estimate on Iran and debunks the vice president's favorite myths.
Monday 12:25 PM
Ehsan Ahrari says the sale of F-16s shows the president's Central Asia strategy trumped smart South Asia policy.
Monday 11:30 AM
March 25, 2005
Each year, Social Security keeps 1 million children out of poverty. But you don't hear about that during Bush's stump speeches.
Friday 10:38 AM
Two OMB Watch analysts reveal Bush's main budget-management tool to be yet another farce.
Friday 9:51 AM
Torture survivor Sister Dianna Ortiz on the U.S. policy to systematically pass off the blame in torture cases.
Friday 9:36 AM
March 24, 2005
Readers react in this week's installment of letters.
Thursday 3:45 PM
Archbishop Oscar Romero was murdered 25 years ago today as part of the original "Salvador Option,' writes Mark Engler.
Thursday 9:53 AM
March 23, 2005
Test...
Wednesday 1:21 PM
Congress is in a frenzy to protect one woman's right to food, while voting down measures to protect millions of others.
Wednesday 10:48 AM
For the first time in U.S. history, the wealthy don't have to help shoulder the burdens of war.
Wednesday 10:27 AM
March 22, 2005
Frank O'Donnell on the tainted politics and science behind the EPA's new mercury rule.
Tuesday 9:41 AM
Without much better funding and research support, the United States will continue to slip in the high-tech sector.
Tuesday 9:20 AM
March 21, 2005
No amount of GOP spin can cover up the truth: Americans value education and want funding increases, not cuts.
Monday 3:55 PM
It's time for a coherent system that ensures all of us can vote, but none of us can vote more than once.
Monday 10:51 AM
Reviving our ailing health care system means focusing on physicians to cut costs—not patients.
Monday 9:59 AM
March 18, 2005
First off: flickers of democracy do not justify war in Iraq. Second: Juan Cole says they have nothing to do with the United States.
Friday 9:48 AM
If America's thirst for oil led Bush to Iraq, security expert Michael Klare wonders whether Bush accomplished his mission.
Friday 9:19 AM
Ray McGovern debunks the White House's "bad intelligence" excuse for Iraq and warns we may be in for more with Iran.
Friday 9:18 AM
Middle East analyst Chris Toensing sizes up the fallout on Israel and Iran.
Friday 9:17 AM
Retired diplomat John Brown says today's Middle East is not Communist Eastern Europe.
Friday 9:16 AM
March 17, 2005
Longtime World Bank observer Jim Vallette says Bush's move will consolidate U.S. global power.
Thursday 9:23 AM
Bush's new youth initiative is designed to reward his socially conservative base.
Thursday 9:20 AM
Porn profits, anyone? A new report removes the fig leaf concealing the biggest hypocrites in Congress.
Thursday 9:20 AM
Robert Reich blames those tax cuts you so vigorously support for today's rising deficits.
Thursday 9:01 AM
March 16, 2005
David Corn says the Washington media's cozy relationship with the White House leaves everyone too comfortable.
Wednesday 10:29 AM
March 15, 2005
Paul Waldman explains why the bankruptcy bill was a taste of things to come—thanks to the alliance between lobbyists and the GOP.
Tuesday 9:31 AM
Erik Leaver says it's time we demand a plan to accompany the Iraq spending bill Congress begins debating today.
Tuesday 9:21 AM
March 14, 2005
PR whiz Parker Blackman says liberals must drop the niceties and call Republicans what they are: extreme and reckless.
Monday 10:44 AM
March 11, 2005
Teaser
Friday 2:34 PM
March 10, 2005
Readers react in this week's installment of letters
Thursday 5:36 PM
Jesse Jackson Jr. says that until voting is a constitutional right, our electoral system is on shaky ground.
Thursday 10:22 AM
Arianna Huffington on the Senate's cheap shot at financially troubled consumers.
Thursday 9:53 AM
March 09, 2005
Glen Ford and Peter Gamble report the Republican push to woo black voters has reached full throttle.
Wednesday 8:20 AM
Amy Quinn of United for Peace and Justice says it's time to mobilize the majority of Americans who want U.S. troops out of Iraq.
Wednesday 8:19 AM
March 08, 2005
Teaser
Tuesday 5:30 PM
Teaser
Tuesday 5:29 PM
Teaser
Tuesday 5:16 PM
March 07, 2005
Jim Lobe calls John Bolton's appointment to the United Nations a victory for right-wing hawks.
Monday 4:09 PM
Frank O'Donnell explains how Bush's allies are trying to force the polluter-friendly Clear Skies Act through the Senate.
Monday 10:45 AM
March 04, 2005
Readers react in this week's installment of letters.
Friday 4:11 PM
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich says we
can afford to have good schools—with a nationwide wealth tax.
Friday 9:19 AM
March 03, 2005
Economy & Environment Test...
Thursday 11:51 AM
David Corn says even Republicans don't know what Bush is hoping to accomplish with his Social Security plan.
Thursday 9:59 AM
March 02, 2005
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Wednesday 3:12 PM
Karen Pearl says President Bush doesn't put his money where his mouth is when it comes to preventing abortions.
Wednesday 10:15 AM
March 01, 2005
Linking climate change, poverty and war, Jeffrey Sachs says that to spread democracy, America needs to change.
Tuesday 9:41 AM
