July 15, 2005
The secret U.S. plan for withdrawal from Iraq in 2006 is the wrong decision for the wrong reasons.
Friday 9:47 AM
July 14, 2005
The August 15 deadline for an Iraqi constitution is a recipe for a conflagration greater than the insurgency.
Thursday 9:37 AM
July 11, 2005
CAFTA isn't just another struggle between the wealthy and the workers. It's about the future of globalization.
Monday 9:14 AM
July 08, 2005
The killing of innocents in London is tragic. And so is the killing of innocents in Baghdad. Bush's double standard only ensures more tragedy.
Friday 10:56 AM
July 07, 2005
In the Valerie Plame case, is Karl Rove using journalists and the First Amendment to camouflage a crime?
Thursday 8:07 AM
July 06, 2005
The Chinese bid to acquire Unocal is a struggle between basic American values and market fundamentalism.
Wednesday 8:48 AM
July 05, 2005
A former advisor to the Iraqi constitutional process counsels negotiation as the way forward in Iraq.
Tuesday 9:11 AM
The Bush administration practices unprecedented secrecy—and pulls it off without much challenge from the media.
Tuesday 9:09 AM
July 01, 2005
Sam Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry would have found Bush's brand of patriotism unfathomable.
Friday 9:01 AM
June 29, 2005
When in doubt, it's always 9/11. Dissecting Bush's speech and the questions he didn't answer.
Wednesday 8:17 AM
June 27, 2005
The assault on public broadcasting aims not to kill off PBS or NPR, but to quietly annex them into the state propaganda machine.
Monday 9:32 AM
A word from Bush could end the abuse of detainees.
Monday 8:55 AM
June 24, 2005
For progressive Democrats, fixing the United States' tarnished electoral system is job number one.
Friday 10:46 AM
The doctored White House climate change report is just one example of the burgeoning "product defense industry."
Friday 10:44 AM
June 23, 2005
From defense contractors to tobacco companies, a look at who's giving and who's getting on the Hill this summer.
Thursday 11:08 AM
The reporter who broke the Downing Street memos believes it was Bush's secret air war in 2002 that is the real crime.
Thursday 9:13 AM
June 22, 2005
The failure to sell privatization may push Americans to say "Enough!" to the risk shifting underlying the conservative agenda.
Wednesday 9:04 AM
June 20, 2005
Parental notifical laws amount to punishment for girls who become pregnant and happen to have neglectful or abusive parents.
Monday 9:42 AM
Why are Republicans focusing on one Democratic remark? Because God forbid anybody pays attention to what the GOP is doing.
Monday 9:31 AM
June 17, 2005
Progressive mayors like Antonio Villaraigosa redefine "healthy business climate" to mean prosperity that is shared by working people.
Friday 9:18 AM
The Senate's lynching apology rings hollow when the senators behind the resolution push laws criminalizing black youth.
Friday 8:40 AM
June 15, 2005
The leaders of the American labor unions are engaging one another in a massive game of chicken.
Wednesday 9:21 AM
June 14, 2005
A look at the education of successful global terrorists destroys the myth that Islamic religious schools are a threat to America.
Tuesday 10:12 AM
June 13, 2005
It's time to consider a single-payer, Medicare-for-all system of national health insurance. Seventy-two percent of Americans agree.
Monday 9:21 AM
June 10, 2005
Between Social Security privatization, pension defaults, and market instability, retirement security is in jeopardy. Here's a way forward.
Friday 10:20 AM
The drumbeat of censorship is growing louder in Washington.
Friday 10:16 AM
June 08, 2005
Newsweek's bureau chief in Baghdad—and supporter of the war—says Iraq has become a U.S. exercise in damage control.
Wednesday 9:51 AM
Conservatives are renewing their attack on the Family and Medical Leave Act. Will Democrats have the smarts to defend it?
Wednesday 9:42 AM
June 07, 2005
The Amnesty report is only one element in a long-term effort to puncture Bush's impunity.
Tuesday 10:20 AM
United Airlines jettisoned its pensions. Could it precipitate a national crisis?
Tuesday 9:56 AM
Why a broad array of public interest groups are calling on the Bush administration to answer for its lies about Iraq.
Tuesday 9:26 AM
June 06, 2005
Skeptics who downplay bias against people of color in the housing market on the basis of credit are merely rationalizing inequality.
Monday 9:56 AM
The vitality of the Democratic Party requires that it become a strong voice for an end to the occupation of Iraq.
Monday 9:47 AM
Maybe we don't all have the same opportunities.
Monday 8:43 AM
June 03, 2005
Bush and Cheney keep spinning victory. Americans increasingly know otherwise.
Friday 11:45 AM
Arafat's death, Gaza withdrawal, Syria out of Lebanon. So much has changed that it is time to scrap the road map.
Friday 11:25 AM
June 02, 2005
Mark Felt's disclosure is a welcome reminder that there can be merit and even honor in using anonymous sources.
Thursday 1:01 PM
Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are hard put to square their indignation with a 2,000-page Army report on torture.
Thursday 12:57 PM
June 01, 2005
Globalization is broken. With three billion low-wage workers entering the market, collapse is just a matter of time.
Wednesday 9:27 AM
May 31, 2005
The evidence of George W. Bush's high crimes is conclusive. Now we need a court.
Tuesday 9:19 AM
May 27, 2005
The evidence confirming
Newsweek's Quran reporting shifts the focus to White House efforts to undermine independent media.
Friday 10:26 AM
Greenspan blunted the pain of the tech bubble by creating the housing bubble. Could it finally be time to pay the piper?
Friday 9:38 AM
May 26, 2005
Bogged down in Baghdad, Bush laid seige to the Congress but was met with mutiny. Now he's plotting revenge.
Thursday 10:24 AM
Bill Moyers' principled journalism is a threat to the White House and the conservative movement. Time to stand firm.
Thursday 9:09 AM
May 24, 2005
The globalization of the consumer economy is about to take a bite out of U.S. jobs. Again.
Tuesday 9:40 AM
May 23, 2005
Has genomics undermined the rationale for private health insurance and made universal, single-payer health care inevitable?
Monday 9:14 AM
One Congressman stands up for a cleaner energy future and finds jobs and security along the way.
Monday 9:13 AM
May 20, 2005
What the Bush administration is and isn't doing to bring its democracy campaign to Haiti.
Friday 7:48 AM
For now, the Democrats must play defense—but that 'compelling vision' better be right around the corner.
Friday 7:41 AM
May 19, 2005
America's been hit by a perfect storm of corporate welfare for the wealthy and vilification for those with the least.
Thursday 9:30 AM
May 18, 2005
Newsweek didn't degrade U.S. credibility in the Muslim world. The Bush administration's done a pretty good job of that all by itself.
Wednesday 9:36 AM
What if a dozen marquee CEOs convened a "Manhattan Project"-style effort on the future of health care?
Wednesday 8:02 AM
May 17, 2005
The first step toward a fully sovereign and democratic Iraq is reversing the U.S. policy that aims to establish military bases there.
Tuesday 8:40 AM
May 16, 2005
A former British ambassador to Uzbekistan explains why the Bush administration backs the Uzbek dictator.
Monday 9:50 AM
Some encouraging developments from Vermont for those who worry our country is lurching right.
Monday 8:34 AM
May 12, 2005
The publishers of BlackCommentator argue that the crisis in black political leadership demands a Black Progressive PAC.
Thursday 10:15 AM
May 10, 2005
Senate Democrats have refrained from exercising the "nuclear option" in the past because it was as wrong then as it is now.
Tuesday 10:27 AM
May 09, 2005
Since the REAL ID bill opened the question of immigration, let's talk about America's response to climate refugees.
Monday 10:27 AM
Having a hard time keeping track of just how unstable our economy is? Here's a handy summary.
Monday 10:03 AM
Forget liberal bias. The Republicans appear eager to spread still more of their own subsidized propaganda.
Monday 9:31 AM
Nuclear power is not the panacaea Bush claims. Instead, we need to clean-up fossil fuel plants, invest in renewables, and build public transit.
Monday 9:15 AM
May 06, 2005
Our electoral system is in tatters. Here are some changes we should be making before the next national election.
Friday 9:44 AM
May 05, 2005
A leader in the anti-nuclear power movement explains why you shouldn't believe the all-nukes-are-green hype.
Thursday 11:06 AM
The anti-war movement is getting no traction. Should it change into a pro-democracy movement?
Thursday 10:44 AM
May 04, 2005
Whether due to the miscalculations of Frist's religious war, Bush's Social Security plan or Tom DeLay—Republicans are floundering.
Wednesday 9:15 AM
In state legislatures across the country, there's a backlash against the right-wing agenda in Washington.
Wednesday 9:14 AM
May 03, 2005
Bush has showed that he would rather fix the game than protect Social Security. It's time for responsible people to walk away.
Tuesday 9:23 AM
If Bush wants other countries to step up to non-proliferation, he's going to have to stop the double standards. Right.
Tuesday 9:19 AM
May 02, 2005
Turning Social Security into a welfare program reveals Bush's real intention: complete dismantlement.
Monday 11:12 AM
April 28, 2005
Health care costs are sucking the life out of the economy and bankrupting average Americans. And now we're outsourcing it.
Thursday 9:07 AM
April 27, 2005
Forty public policy groups get their money from ExxonMobil—and they're all targeting the science behind global warming.
Wednesday 10:40 AM
Republicans are warming up for a Supreme Court nomination fight, but their theocratic tactics might just backfire.
Wednesday 10:35 AM
Are Americans smart enough to manage a privatized Social Security account? Smart enough, maybe. Skilled enough, no.
Wednesday 10:30 AM
April 26, 2005
Since the 1970s, economic growth has actually harmed most Americans. It's time to shift the conversation to prosperity.
Tuesday 10:23 AM
To make its case for Social Security reform, the Bush administration resorts to highly irregular accounting practices.
Tuesday 10:20 AM
April 25, 2005
Conservatives think we're living in the "Bush Boom." That's because they don't know any wage earners.
Monday 9:13 AM
A new study shows oil-rich nations need checks and balances as well as elections to be successful. Tell that to the neocons.
Monday 9:02 AM
April 21, 2005
Funny. America's strongest companies are investing in places with higher taxes and better public services.
Thursday 11:15 AM
Swiss financiers just got briefed on the likelihood of peak oil. Will they respond in time?
Thursday 11:05 AM
April 20, 2005
The new pope represents a deep challenge to the spirit of Vatican II holding a diverse church together.
Wednesday 9:51 AM
The forces of church, state and corporate power are converging to threaten democracy in Congress.
Wednesday 9:50 AM
April 19, 2005
How big energy companies used political cunning and pseudoscience to suppress the truth about global warming.
Tuesday 8:38 AM
The telecom industry has a well-funded army who stand ready to paint community Internet as an affront to American innovation and free enterprise.
Tuesday 8:36 AM
The burgeoning "reconstruction industry" uses the desperation and fear created by catastrophe to engage in radical social and economic engineering.
Tuesday 8:19 AM
April 18, 2005
As Dems search for a "values frame," they can start with Franklin Delano Roosevelt, circa 1944.
Monday 9:19 AM
The archbishop of Canterbury warns that the price of our continued failure to protect the earth will be violence and social collapse.
Monday 9:17 AM
Different ends of the political spectrum. Same belief in the importance of the Senate rule giving a voice to the minority party.
Monday 9:15 AM
April 14, 2005
Slate's legal analyst blows apart the ethical and legal arguments of pharmacists who refuse to fill birth control prescriptions.
Thursday 9:59 AM
America's poor are worse off than in most other developed countries. Repealing the estate tax will make it worse.
Thursday 9:21 AM
A warning to Washington, Tel Aviv and Damascus not to start a civil war in Lebanon.
Thursday 9:09 AM
April 13, 2005
The new civil rights issue? Stopping predatory financial services from ensnaring families in a vicious cycle of debt.
Wednesday 11:48 AM
Here's where to look for the cash to pay for Social Security, education or health care.
Wednesday 10:12 AM
April 12, 2005
A Python PSA from the "Department of Making Things Better for Children in the Middle East By Military Force."
Tuesday 10:41 AM
America subsidizes parking lots as much as Medicare: $374 billion—while our rail budget is only $52 billion.
Tuesday 10:37 AM
Fifty percent of Americans know Bush lied us into war. So why are the media still calling him a "popular wartime president?"
Tuesday 9:57 AM
April 11, 2005
The White House has updated America's interests and our global military presence but not because of terrorism.
Monday 9:24 AM
Another fiscal conservative rings the warning bells on our collective economic health.
Monday 9:17 AM
April 08, 2005
A textile CEO argues that a protectionism is not the way to keep high-wage, high skill jobs in the U.S.
Friday 9:46 AM
April 07, 2005
Eric Alterman reports on the big stories you might have missed during the media's 24-7 coverage of the pope's demise.
Thursday 10:47 AM
If the Social Security Trust Fund is a joke, as President Bush likes to say, then so is the United States' credibility.
Thursday 9:40 AM
April 06, 2005
Paul Rogat Loeb looks at why a majority of Americans endorse personal choice for end-of-life decisions but not for abortion.
Wednesday 9:15 AM
April 05, 2005
Anya Kamenetz says a new bill in Congress pits the nation's powerful banking lobby against college students.
Tuesday 10:58 AM
April 04, 2005
Bush's America is increasingly unequal and unsustainable.
Monday 3:30 PM
Sister Helen Prejean applauds John Paul II's opposition to the death penalty.
Monday 10:38 AM
April 01, 2005
Robin Cook sees the clash between neocons and Kofi Annan for what it is: U.S. supremacy versus U.N. equality.
Friday 10:15 AM
Amanda Griscom-Little explains how George Lakoff may be leaving the Green Group in the lurch.
Friday 9:24 AM
March 31, 2005
Martin Jacques criticizes Europeans for their willingness to acquiesce to the neocon agenda.
Thursday 9:28 AM
March 30, 2005
Harold Meyerson asks whether we really want to export drug-price gouging to our southern neighbors.
Wednesday 8:55 AM
Michael Shermer reveals Intelligent Design to be just a marketing tool for Christian conservatives.
Wednesday 8:49 AM
Bill Bradley assesses the lack of effective organization in the Democratic party.
Wednesday 8:36 AM
March 29, 2005
Amy Sullivan says it's not discrimination that keeps women off the op-ed pages—it's women themselves.
Tuesday 10:44 AM
William Saletan on Tom DeLay's mortal hypocrisy.
Tuesday 10:08 AM
Labor's success at convincing Wall Street firms to step back from the Social Security fight has reaped a nasty response.
Tuesday 9:52 AM
Benjamin Wallace-Wells says the Bush administration is squandering America's economic advantage.
Tuesday 9:51 AM
March 28, 2005
Bill Berkowitz reveals the host of right-wing organizations abundantly funding the Terri Schiavo case.
Monday 11:35 AM
Bill Greider caught a wiff of trade protectionism in the air and traced its source to powerful financial interests.
Monday 10:39 AM
Chris Mooney finds the powerful Bill Frist guilty of exploiting his medical credentials for political gain.
Monday 10:04 AM
March 25, 2005
Debra Saunders rails on Tom DeLay's corruption.
Friday 9:25 AM
March 24, 2005
Long before Social Security runs a deficit, Chinese and Indian economic growth will consume the world, writes Jim Lobe.
Thursday 9:26 AM
The Democratic duck-and-cover during the Schiavo vote was a sad commentary on the leadership of the party.
Thursday 9:17 AM
Geoffrey Wheatcroft reminds us that immature democracies brought us Hitler, Mugabe and Sinn Fein.
Thursday 9:15 AM
March 23, 2005
While it is way too early for Dems to claim victory on Social Security, it's not too early to ask how Bush will handle defeat.
Wednesday 10:19 AM
With the first Al Qaeda attack in Qatar, Robert Fisk sees the real result of the American invasion of Iraq.
Wednesday 10:08 AM
Harvard's Charles Freid captures the dangerous constitutional hypocrisy in the Schiavo Law.
Wednesday 9:21 AM
March 22, 2005
There's a new pragmatic left ascending in Latin America, and Alvaro Vargas Llosa says it's a great opportunity for reform.
Tuesday 9:17 AM
James Carroll asks what America would be like if George Kennan's real wisdom had prevailed 50 years ago—and today.
Tuesday 9:10 AM
March 21, 2005
The
L.A. Times sounds the trumpet once again: the Schiavo bill damages our federal system of government.
Monday 9:53 AM
Courtney Mabeus on the money and interests behind the push to open
and to protect ANWR.
Monday 9:46 AM
Trita Parsi captures the massive strategic flaw in the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
Monday 8:30 AM
March 17, 2005
Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute explains how hybrid cars and wind farms can slash our oil imports.
Thursday 10:53 AM
March 16, 2005
Robert Kuttner wonders why Dems can't turn Bush's assault on working people into winning politics.
Wednesday 10:26 AM
Time's Karen Tumulty looks at the ever-shakier foundation of Tom DeLay's political machine.
Wednesday 10:12 AM
Kelpie Wilson explains the tensions swirling around drilling in Alaska—which the Senate takes up today.
Wednesday 10:00 AM
March 15, 2005
Chalmers Johnson looks at the threats posed by one of the nations propping up America's massive debt.
Tuesday 9:18 AM
Paul Krugman says Dems can't say they stand for working families on one issue when they vote against them on another.
Tuesday 9:17 AM
Yesterday's decision in San Francisco reminds us of the court's duty to uphold civil rights even when public opinion lags.
Tuesday 9:17 AM
March 14, 2005
Naomi Klein says the Bush definition of liberation abroad robs democratic forces of their most potent tools.
Monday 10:32 AM
Nicholas von Hoffman reflects on his son's homecoming from Iraq—a war he opposed.
Monday 9:58 AM
Slate's David Greenberg explores the troubling popularity of
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History.
Monday 9:57 AM
Chris Mooney says the Bush administration obscures both the environmental
and the economic benefits of mercury regulation.
Monday 9:56 AM
March 11, 2005
Ellen Goodman matches Bush's rhetoric about children with the reality of his Social Security plan.
Friday 10:53 AM
Republicans make lots of arguments against the minimum wage—just no good ones, explains Terence Samuel.
Friday 10:41 AM
Ari Melber says Dean is just the man for pushing the party to labor through new platform creation.
Friday 10:19 AM
On America's use of torture, Bush is either lying or out of the loop, argues Michael Kinsley's
L.A. Times editorial board.
Friday 9:39 AM
March 10, 2005
Finally. Someone explains the real beneficiaries of Bush's nutty Social Security scheme: Big Finance.
Thursday 10:21 AM
Cheering democratic progress abroad does not equal an endorsement of Bush's foreign policy, says Matthew Yglesias.
Thursday 9:42 AM
Ari Berman looks at why the Bush administration refuses to clamp down on harmful mercury emissions.
Thursday 9:13 AM
March 09, 2005
Helen Thomas says America needs a presidential order banning torture.
Wednesday 8:28 AM
Jim Wallis says much of the religious right's agenda is in direct contradiction to Christ's own teachings.
Wednesday 8:16 AM
Anya Kamenetz gives the Ivies a nod for dropping tuition for poor students. But what they really need is help from Congress.
Wednesday 8:01 AM
March 08, 2005
Under George W. Bush, America is waging a global battle to turn back the clock on women's rights.
Tuesday 10:32 AM
Harvard's Elizabeth Warren takes another whack at the bankruptcy bill, this time standing up for women.
Tuesday 9:58 AM
William Thatcher Dowell observes how both Bush and the Saudis coddle their fundamentalist right.
Tuesday 8:48 AM
Paul Krugman sees the bankruptcy bill as a step towards the debt-peonage system in the post-Civil War South.
Tuesday 8:16 AM
March 07, 2005
Chris Toensing notes Bush's hypocrisy in the Middle East: Only our enemies need to become democracies.
Monday 10:22 AM
David Francis looks at forecasts for the stock market and sees yet another reason to avoid privatizing Social Security.
Monday 10:17 AM
We've been debating whether to drill in ANWR since the 1970s, but no amount of Alaskan oil can keep up with consumption.
Monday 10:13 AM
March 04, 2005
Ari Berman on the deflation of the DLC.
Friday 11:26 AM
Jonathan Schell questions whether Bush's America really has the the present means to obtain future goods.
Friday 10:56 AM
Stephanie Mencimer looks at why some Dems vote against their own interests in support of so-called tort reform.
Friday 9:18 AM
Sen. Robert Byrd stands up for free speech and minority rights. Will others stand with him?
Friday 7:46 AM
March 03, 2005
Frank Rich riffs on Gannongate, Dan Rather's retirement and journalistic dysfunction in America.
Thursday 9:58 AM
Wondering who caused the proto-democratic ripple effect in the Middle East? Timothy Garton Ash says: Osama.
Thursday 9:48 AM
The Center for Responsive Politics on the bankruptcy legislation that shows just how much compassion conservatives have.
Thursday 9:25 AM
March 02, 2005
China needs oil. So does the United States. There's a limited supply. Welcome to the new Cold War.
Wednesday 10:09 AM
Dave Zweifel reports that, faced with a successful unionization in Quebec, Wal-Mart simply closed down the store.
Wednesday 10:03 AM
Don Cheadle and John Prendergast say it's not too late to stop the next Rwanda.
Wednesday 9:47 AM
March 01, 2005
Older Americans are the fastest-growing age group in the bankruptcy courts—and they're not buying flat-screen televisions.
Tuesday 9:30 AM
Bill Gates says America's high schools need to be redesigned.
Tuesday 9:27 AM
John Nichols upbraids Democrats who are not standing for freedom at home.
Tuesday 9:24 AM
Lawrence Mishel writes that the Social Security debate has unearthed the extent and injustice of wage inequality.
Tuesday 8:58 AM
