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Lizzy Ratner Passage of a "Bill of Rights" in New York would be a promising win for a growing movement.
The Editors If Obama leads, the people will rally to his side. A good way to remind voters of the bold change they voted for last fall: ordering a hard cap on executive pay.
Kim Phillips-Fein Traditionalists are at war with free-marketers, and the far right's resentment is deepening. Is conservatism dead?
The Rachel Maddow Show Nation blogger Melissa Harris-Lacewell reacts to Glenn Beck's '9/12 movement' and the right-wing's tone deaf response to Obama's healthcare speech.
Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. & Bill McKibben From soul to hip-hop: the new environmental movement has a street beat.
Eric Alterman A monthlong investigation finds plenty of fire to go with the smoke surrounding the university's incredibly vague conflict-of-interest policies.
The Editors
It's bizarre and more than a little infuriating that a champion of social justice has become the latest right-wing bogeyman.
Rachel Aviv Novelist Clarice Lispector idealized animals and idiots because they were free of the desire to translate experience into words.
GRIT TV The Nation's Ari Melber, Aimee Allison of KPFA Radio and others discuss the resignation of Van Jones and what it means for the larger political atmosphere.
Mark Suzman, Raj Patel, Eric Holt-Gimenez & Annie Shattuck We hear from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation regarding our September 21 "Ending Africa's Hunger," and our authors reply.
G.C. Waldrep
Stephen Glain The Pentagon has all but eclipsed the State Department in setting US foreign policy.
Naomi Klein The glittering "spotlight" at a Toronto film festival is a reflection of Israel's desire to avoid scrutiny for its actions in Gaza.
John Nichols
Yes, primaries can be divisive and expensive. But the Democratic Party is usually at its best when it trusts grassroots activists and voters to make choices.
Democracy Now Jeremy Scahill appears with the Hermanson family, whose son Adam was killed in Iraq while employed with Triple Canopy, the "new Blackwater."
Jon Wiener
Shrouded in secrecy, "intelligence officer training" conflicts with universities' commitment to openness and free inquiry.
Gary Younge It takes considerable skill to convince people that something that is clearly good for them--like universal healthcare--is not.
The Editors
Zelaya talks to Tom Hayden.
The Daily Show Jon Stewart reveals the not-so-subtle hypocrisy of Fox News' laudatory coverage of the so-called '9-12 movement' and tea party events held in the nation's capital.
JoAnn Wypijewski "Female sexual dysfunction" is a case in point of a runaway medical system that requires huge profits, hence new sicknesses, pills and procedures.
Jeremy Scahill The family of a military contractor electrocuted in Baghdad is alleging his employer, Triple Canopy misled them about how he died.
Dave Zirin & Sherry Wolf The salacious sports media and the puritanical zealots that run international track and field have joined forces to hit a new low.
Max Blumenthal & AlterNet Nation contributor Max Blumenthal captures the protest's atmosphere of ignorance by interviewing the rally's most delusional attendees.
Rebecca Solnit For the eighth anniversary of September 11, 2001, a full-scale reappraisal of the real meaning of that day in New York for ordinary Americans.
Mohammed Khatib The growing nonviolent mass movement against Israel's annexation wall is now meeting with stepped-up--and lethal--repression.
Dave Zirin Why is Roger Federer's on-the-court meltdown acceptable while Serena Williams's outburst is cause for a national apology tour?
GRIT TV David Cay Johnston, Robert Johnson and Barrett Sheridan on whether the worst is over. And if it is, what's to prevent another economic storm from happening again?
Jeff Biggers An important announcement suggests that environmental justice may be coming to the Appalachian coalfields.
Robert Scheer A president has only so much capital to expend, and Barack Obama is dangerously overdrawn.
Barbara Crossette More and more experts now say that climate change and population increase should be viewed together. Local politicians in developing countries often try to heat up the issue.
Tess Elliott Though Ken Salazar has vowed to clean up the mess at the Interior Department, his selection for director of the National Park Service, Jon Jarvis, only compounds it.
Andrea Batista Schlesinger Civics education in schools creates young people who turn into the citizens that our democracy requires.
Jeremy Scahill The Senate majority leader calls on Gates and Clinton to find out if shoddy electrical work by contractors killed Adam Hermanson.
Greg Kaufmann As the economy continues to hemorrhage jobs, Congressman Keith Ellison of Minnesota is introducing legislation to increase eligibility for free school lunches.
Sebastian Jones The racist, antigay, pro-gun, antichoice, Christian nationalist march on Washington that conservatives don't want you to see.
Jeremy Scahill Two years to the day after the Nisour Square massacre, Blackwater remains in Iraq, armed and dangerous.