Views - July 2008
Thursday July 31, 2008
- Janet Bandows Koster and Betty Shanahan: Title IX: Ensures Equality in Education
- Glenn Greenwald: Karl Rove's Media Birds Chirp About Obama's 'Arrogance'
- Change We Can Believe In
- Amy Goodman: 'It's a Global Election'
- Craig Aaron: Comcast Unleashes the Lapdogs
- Raj Patel: Muted Woe at WTO
- Rosa Brooks: Bush in the Dock? Don't Count on It
- Conn Hallinan: Afghanistan: Not a Good War
- Robert Weissman: Celebrate, Don't Mourn, Collapse of WTO Talks
- Robert C. Koehler: Citizens of the World
- Norman Solomon: Democratic Platform Option: 'Guaranteed Health Care for All'
Wednesday July 30, 2008
- Dave Lindorff: Friday's House Judiciary Hearing on Impeachment: A Victory and a Challenge
- Glen Ford: Big Media Steals 5,100 Digital TV Channels
- Sean Gonsalves: Banned in the USA?
- Dan Gardner: Child Soldiers and Demonization
- Eugene Robinson: Bush's Legacy of Torture
- Robert Scheer: Sucking Up to the Bankers: A Bipartisan Lovefest
- Peter Rothberg and Mica Schlosser: Chipotle Hypocrisy
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: The Knoxville Shooting: The Liberals Made Him Do It
- Al Meyerhoff: Buzzzzzzzz Kill
- Pat LaMarche: Can't Get No Health Care Satisfaction
- Andrew Greeley: America's Leaders Violated One of the Commandments
- Ira Chernus: War Meets Values on Campaign Trail
- Matthew Rothschild: ACLU Highlights Risk of 'Fusion Centers'
Tuesday July 29, 2008
- Marie Cocco: A Parting Gift to the Religious Right
- Ed Pilkington: Eaten Up
- Scott Ritter: Acts of War
- Albert Koehl: Lessons in Simplicity on Warming
- George Monbiot: We Lie and Bluster About Our Nukes -- and Then Wag Our Fingers at Iran
- Glenn Greenwald: Let's Give 'Blue Dogs' the Boot
- Walden Bello: Derail Doha, Save the Climate
- Robert Naiman: Francis Boyle: Iran Should Sue US in World Court to Stop Threats of Attack
- Dean Baker: After the Housing Bill: Time to Address Foreclosures
- Marjorie Cohn: End the Occupation of Iraq -- and Afghanistan
Monday July 28, 2008
- Joe Parko: Bush Must Be Stopped Before Starting War With Iran
- James Carroll: In Berlin, Hope for the Fall of Other Walls
- Robert Dreyfuss: Iraq: Poised to Explode
- Barbara Ehrenreich: The Suicide Solution
- David Chernushenko: A Model for Real Community Energy Self-Sufficiency
- Barry W. Lynn: How Separate Must Church and State Be?
- Robyn Blumner: Anti-Government Era Will End When Bush Leaves Office
- Dave Hunsaker: The Importance of Net Neutrality
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: We're Losing the Ability to Think
- Johann Hari: The Hard Cash That Wins the Vice-Presidency
- Jim Goodman: Small Farming Is the Future
- Chalmers Johnson: The Military-Industrial Complex
- Jeff Cohen: Americans Move Left, New York Times Misses It
- Kathy Kelly: Pictures From Summer Camp
Sunday July 27, 2008
- Jamison Foser: Carrying McCain's Water Is Heavy Lifting
- Jane Mayer: The Battle For A Country's Soul
- Frank Rich: How Obama Became Acting President
- Danny Schechter: How Should We Respond To The Imploding Economy
Saturday July 26, 2008
- Jennifer Gonnerman: Slammed: Welcome to the Age of Incarceration
- Tim Shorrock: Exposing Bush's Historic Abuse of Power
- Timothy Karr: Adelstein and Copps: Voices at the FCC for a Free and Open Internet
- John Pilger: Obama, The Prince of Bait-and-Switch
- Marina Hyde: We Have A Drinking Problem, And It Makes Oil Seem Cheap
- Harvey Wasserman: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says The Reactor Revival Is NOT Ready For Prime Time
- Karen Von Hahn: 'People Are Looking For Roots'
- Michael B. Reagan: US Military Recruits Children: "America's Army" Videogame Violates International Law
- Christopher Brauchli: KBR Revisited Again
- Michael Winship: The Torturing Company We Keep
Friday July 25, 2008
- John Nichols: Impeachment Hearings Are the Appropriate and Necessary Next Step
- Glenn Greenwald: The Parade of 'Shrill, Unserious Extremists' on Display at Today's Impeachment Hearings
- Dave Lindorff: We're a Nation of Lemmings
- Robert Weissman: The Scourge of the IMF
- Cristina Page: HHS Proposal Undercuts State Birth Control Laws
- George Curry: Don't Underestimate the Role Community Plays in Education
- Anna Sussman: Journalist Detained for Reporting
- David Sirota: Six Little Words
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: Rethinking Afghanistan
- Malinda Markowitz: Guarantee Healthcare for All
- John Young: Shell Game on Women's Health
- C. Dixon Osburn: The Days of Don't Ask, Don't Tell Are Numbered
Thursday July 24, 2008
- Robert Naiman: If the Iranians Are Confident in Their Chess, They May Accept 'Freeze for Freeze'
- Patrick Detscher: Invest in the Future, Not in Nuclear Power
- Haroon Siddiqui: Obama Already Setting Tone for US Foreign Policy ...
- George Monbiot: Don't Be Fooled by the Climate Change Bill. Carbon Trading Torpedoes It
- Medea Benjamin: Urgent: The Peace Movement Needs a Strategy for Afghanistan!
- Holly Sklar: Minimum Wage Raise Too Little, Too Late
- Amy Goodman: Who's Paying for the Conventions?
- John Nichols: Cindy Sheehan Is Putting Impeachment on the Table
- Johann Hari: Crime Problem? Just Lock 'em in the Lavatory
- Gideon Levy: Caterpillar Fashion
- Steve Chapman: McCain's Confusion on Iraq
- Robert C. Koehler: The Next New Yorker Cover
- Editorial: To Serve, Protect and Follow the Law
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: You Think Slavery Ended in 1865?
Wednesday July 23, 2008
- Janine di Giovanni: Spectres of Sarajevo
- Juan Cole: Obama Is Saying the Wrong Things About Afghanistan
- Richard Cizik and Trip van Noppen: Diverse Groups Coalesce to Protect Environment
- Robert Scheer: Obama on the Brink
- Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater Is Here to Stay
- Mark Morford: John McCain, Please Log On
- Pat LaMarche: For Failures, It Takes One to Know One
- Elizabeth de la Vega: Our National Water Policy…
- Frida Berrigan: Avoiding Brinksmanship With Iran
- Bruce Dixon: Obama (and Big Media) Turn Blind Eye to Israeli Apartheid
Tuesday July 22, 2008
- Jill Richardson: Gore, You Can Have Your Meat and Eat It Too
- Al Meyerhoff: The Next Green President
- Jesse Jackson: System That Convicts Innocent Needs Reform
- Sami Ramadani: No U-Turn. Obama's Stance on Iraq Is Chillingly Consistent
- Yifat Susskind: G8 to Poor Women: Let Them Eat Dirt
- Sarah Wildman: The Global War on Sex Education
- Ed Kinane: Method in the Madness: Why They Want to Attack Iran
- Dean Baker: Vicious Ideologue Renews Attack on Social Security
- Robert Parry: Gitmo 'Justice' for US Citizens?
- Hannes Artens: Iran Isolation Attempts Backfire
- Sean Gonsalves: The Gulag Americano
Monday July 21, 2008
- David Suzuki with Dr. Faisal Moola: Biodiversity Important for All of Us
- William O. Beeman: Playing Games With Iran
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: Going Green
- Craig Kielburger and Marc Kielburger: Treatment of Khadr Inexcusable
- Chris Hedges: So Goes the Newsroom, the Empire and the World
- Dave Zirin: COINTELPRO Comes to My Town: My First-Hand Experience With Government Spies
- Gary Younge: People See in Obama What They Want to See -- That's a Blessing and a Curse
- Bill Dienst: Gaza on Brink of Humanitarian Catastrophe
- William J. Astore: Having the 'Best Military' Is Not Always a Good Thing
Sunday July 20, 2008
- Christopher Brauchli: The Plagiarist and the Judgeship
- Zachary Pickens: No Slave to the Racism of Others
- Haroon Siddiqui: Khadr and Harper; Bush and the Ayatollahs
- John Nichols: Obama's Wrong Turn in Afghanistan
- Eric Lotke: Downsizing Government to Death
- Glenn Greenwald: The AT&T Convention in Denver
- Olga Bonfiglio: You Say You Want a Revolution?
- Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith: Nine Reasons to Investigate War Crimes Now
Saturday July 19, 2008
- Ronnie Cummins: Netroots Nation or Nation of Sheep: Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore Address the Netroots Nation Conference
- Firmin DeBrabander: Drilling Ourselves Deep in a Hole
- Ari Melber: Netroots Summit Grapples with Bipartisan Attacks on Rule of Law
- Stacy Mitchell: Wal-Mart: Low Prices, but at What Cost?
- Neve Gordon: A West Bank Town's Fight to Survive
- Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern: 'Justifying' Torture: Two Big Lies
- Harvey Wasserman: Al Gore Inches Toward Solartopia
- David Krieger: A Short Message to the UC Regents: Get Out of the Nuclear Weapons Business
- Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Mother's Milk of Politics Turns Sour
Friday July 18, 2008
- Glenn Greenwald: The Right-Wing Understanding of Government
- Walden Bello: The WTO's Raw Deal on Services
- Editorial: Canada Should Uphold the Rule of Law, Even in Khadr Case
- Al Gore: A Generational Challenge to Repower America
- Abbas Edalat: Keep Watch on the Hawks
- Mark Morford: Here's Oil in Your Eye
- Ann Wright: The Costs of War: The Parents' Agony
- Ronnie Cummins: Netroots Nation at the Crossroads: Move Over MoveOn
- Robert Weitzel: Middle East Democracy: Blowback Through the Looking Glass
Thursday July 17, 2008
- Donna Smith: Pabulum of the Possible: Incremental Healthcare Reform
- Mark Levine: First al-Bashir, Next ... Bush?
- Amy Goodman: Don't Drink the Nuclear Kool-Aid
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: When Hysteria and Satire Meet
- Johann Hari: We Have Everything to Fear From McCain
- Ted Rall: War Zero
- Andrew Greeley: Don't Heed Promises of Easy Fuel Solution
- Harvey Wasserman: The Next New Yorker Cover Must Be 'McBush'
- Howard Zinn: Memo to Obama, McCain: No One Wins in a War
- Nick Turse: The Pentagon and the Hunt for Black Gold
- Ray McGovern: Obama, McCain Allergic to New Iraq Reality
- Dave Lindorff: Impeachment Hearings: A Win Is a Win
- Robert C. Koehler: Stigmatizing War
- Conn Hallinan: An Uncomfortable Conversation About Nukes
Wednesday July 16, 2008
- Sarah van Gelder: Americans Say No to War with Iran: Will Washington Listen?
- Robert Scheer: The Real Legacy of the 'Reagan Revolution'
- Dilip Hiro: The Current Oil Shock
- Matthew Rothschild: Irresponsible Bush Clueless on the Economy
- Robert Borosage: Wall Street Socialism
- Glenn Greenwald: Tom Friedman Doesn't Understand Why America Is Unpopular In The World
- Kevin Grandia: Coal to Liquid Plan Means a Kentucky Fried Earth
- Dave Zweifel: Mayors Make Good Move On Health Care
- Ira Chernus: McCain Shifting Public's View on Iraq?
- Pat LaMarche: Freddie and Fannie Hit Snooze on American Dream
Tuesday July 15, 2008
- Tom Hayden: Obama, Iraq and Afghanistan
- Deborah Leavy: Gas Shock's Silver Lining
- Ken Gude: The Worst of the Worst
- Linda McQuaig: Made in America Energy Policy
- Robert Fisk: 'Europe Has a Duty to Educate the US About Middle East'
- Glenn Greenwald: The Motivation for Blocking Investigations Into Bush Lawbreaking
- Walden Bello: The Anti-Climate Summit
- Peter Jones: Nuclear Abolition by UK Alone Would Still Herald New Era
- Dan Gardner: Rendering The Old World Obsolete
- Robert Parry: The High Cost of Bush's Iraq Gambit
- Sean Gonsalves: The Fall of Poll News
Monday July 14, 2008
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: NOLA Watch: Gulf Stream Fails the Smell Test
- Danny Schechter: Freddie Mac, When Are You Coming Back?
- Virginia Lockett: Taking Stock
- Robyn Blumner: Lords of the Meatpacking Manor Busted for Exploiting Immigrants
- Eric Stoner: Outsourcing the Iraq War: Mercenary Recruiters Turn to Latin America
- Michael McCarthy: Elephants' Death Sentence
- Johann Hari: Our Cry for Cheap Oil Is Crude and Deadly
- Aviva Imhof: Big Dams Are Not the Answer to World's Energy Needs
- Jane Etherington: Hung Out to Dry: Where Are the Clotheslines?
- Tom Engelhardt: The Wedding Crashers
- Scott Ritter: Iran Shows Its Cards
Sunday July 13, 2008
- Janice Kennedy: War? What War? Bland Words Feed Our Indifference
- Dan Burden: Toward Walkability -- and Happiness
- Dick Devlin: Ban These Bombs That Kill Indiscriminately
- Pierre Tristam: McCain Picks Up GOP Predecessors' Sham Promises
- Eric Margolis: Yo, G8 Leaders, Love Your Act
- Haroon Siddiqui: Stephen Harper Clings to Bush's Tattered Coattails
- Tom Hayden: Pentagon Fighting Off Peace Majorities in Iraq and US, A Crisis of Democracy
- John Stauber: The War, Dems, MoveOn and The Uprising
- Christopher Brauchli: The Census and the Battery
Saturday July 12, 2008
- Editorial: Profiting From Iraq
- Olga Bonfiglio: Gardens Save the Day in 'WALL-E' and America's Cities
- Richard Gwyn: The Imperialism of Good Intentions
- Timothy Karr: Internet Users Stop Comcast, Net Neutrality Win on the Horizon
- Robert Fisk: A Lesson From Across the Atlantic
- Glenn Greenwald: Torture and the Rule of Law
- Derrick Z. Jackson: Investing More Than Hope in Our Refuges
Friday July 11, 2008
- Editorial: Digital Dreams
- Steve Rall: A 'Cool City' or a 'Coal City'?
- Paul Forsyth: A War Is Brewing Over Water
- Fouad Pervez: The Real Crisis in Pakistan
- Joseph Romm: McCain's Cruel Offshore Drilling Hoax
- Robert Weissman: Crime, Punishment and ExxonMobil
- Ismael Hossein-zadeh: Is There an Oil Shortage?
- David Michael Green: Go to Helms, Regressives
- Madhavi Bhasin: Maliki and the Timetable: It's All About Blackwater
- William Pfaff: Disorderly or Not, America Should Withdraw
- David Sirota: Anywhere Becomes Everywhere
- Bob Rae: Why US War Resisters Deserve Refuge in Canada
- Matthew Rothschild: Forget Retroactive Immunity, FISA Bill Is Also About Prospective Immunity
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: Our Warrantless Wiretapping Lawsuit
- James Denselow: The Dogs of War
- Chris Hedges: Stop the New FISA
Thursday July 10, 2008
- Robert Naiman: Hagee's 'Christians for Israel' Meet in DC, Seeking Conflict With Iran
- Dan Kennedy: Should Bush Be Tried for War Crimes?
- Marie Cocco: Kids Are Fat People Too
- Amy Goodman: Colombia: Celebrate the Release, Not the Regime
- John Nichols: Obama Votes to Silence Debate and Pass FISA
- Eric Easter: What Jesse Jackson Said
- Frances Moore Lappe: Good Grief, Gordon Brown!
- Richard Silverstein: Artistic Censorship in Chicago
- Editorial: Cluster Bombs: A Shameful Stance
- Juan Cole: The FBI's Plan to 'Profile' Muslims
- Glenn Greenwald: Democrats' Strategy: Strength Through Bowing
- David Sirota: From Uprising to Movement: Five Ideas
- Robert C. Koehler: Steel Rain
- Tom Engelhardt: Reality Bites Back
- John Dear: The Only Diet for a Peacemaker Is a Vegetarian Diet
- David Krieger: Is Japan Being Too Polite About Nuclear Disarmament?
- Robert Weissman: The G8: Humanitarian Failure and Making the World Safe for Corporate Power
- Norman Solomon: Obama and the Progressive Base
Wednesday July 9, 2008
- Glenn Greenwald: Today's Coverup of Surveillance Crimes and Barack Obama
- Julene Bair: Bleeding Land, Heating Earth for a Fill-Up
- Patt Morrison: Blackwater and the Constitution
- Cliff Schecter: The Toxic Legacy of Jesse Helms
- Robert Scheer: Taiwan Declares Peace on China
- Joseph Romm: Ignoring the Climate Change Alarm
- Tom Hayden: Secret US-Iraq 'Status of Forces' Agreement Would Preserve Human Rights Violations, Torture Policies in Iraq
- Editorial: Sunny Side Up
- Ted Rall: Belief You Can Change
- Mark Morford: You Are Not Reading Enough
- Pat LaMarche: Chicago a City of Political Change
- Nicholas Ruiz: Election 2008: The Uselessness of Political Equity
- Ira Chernus: Organizing With Obama: Faith in Action
Tuesday July 8, 2008
- Jeff Milchen: When Money Is Speech, Speech Is No Longer Free
- Glenn Greenwald: August 8, 1974 v. July 9, 2008
- John Nichols: Obama Should (Still) Be Standing With Feingold
- MADRE: A Women's Declaration to the G8: Support Real Solutions to the Global Food Crisis
- Alan Nasser: HR 362 and the Alarming Escalation of Hostility Towards Iran
- Wangari Maathai: Quick Benefits Can't Justify Cutting Down Forests
- Alec Crawford: The Security Dimensions of Environmental Policy
- Roberto Lovato: Recreate 68, the DNC and the Urgent Need to Reinvent Our Political Language
- Margaret Krome: Grabby America Needs to Grow Up
- Mairead Corrigan-Maguire: Let Vanunu Go
- LeRoy Moore: The Plutonium Spill at NIST: What's Said and What's Not
- George Monbiot: Trawlermen Cling on as Oceans Empty of Fish - And the Ecosystem Is Gasping
- Pierre Tristam: Pennies a Bucket Don't End Slavery for Florida Pickers
Monday July 7, 2008
- Nick Turse: The Iraqi Oil Ministry's New Fave Five
- Dave Lindorff: Keeping Count (When Ours Goes Down, Theirs Goes Up)
- Sean Gonsalves: Getting 'Wiki' With It?
- Robert Naiman: Americans Don't Know: There's a Plan on the Table to Resolve the Nuclear Standoff With Iran
- Daniel Ellsberg: Learning From Past Disasters, Preventing Future Ones
- Robert Alvarez: Nuclear Recycling Fails the Test
- Bob Ostertag: Obama, FISA and the Netroots
- Robyn Blumner: Does the Supreme Court's Decision Give Us the Right to Bear Nukes?
- Johann Hari: Lies, Kidnapping and a Mysterious Laptop
- James Carroll: Secular Rule Benefits the Faithful, Too
- Amy Vickers: Putting a Cap on the Bottled Water Industry
- Gideon Levy: Mohammed Omer: 'Why Did They Treat Me Like That?'
- Chris Hedges: Surviving the Fourth of July
- Larry Elliott: A G8 Removed From the Real World
- George Lakoff: The Mind and the Obama Magic
Sunday July 6, 2008
- Eric Margolis: New War Brewing: US, Israel Take Dangerous Steps
- Matthew Rothschild: Tenant Banned from Flying Flag Upside Down, Gets Death Threat
- Nicholas D. Kristof: The Truth Commission
- Lisa Duggan: Jesse Helms, American Bigot
- John Nichols: Obama Should Follow Feingold
- Glenn Greenwald: The Political Establishment and Telecom Immunity -- Why It Matters
- Wendy Call: Reclaiming Corn and Culture
- Ramzi Kysia: Breaking Into A Prison To Uphold The Law
- Steve Chapman: Truth and the Gitmo Detainees
- Haroon Siddique: Hitchens Experiences Waterboarding but What Does It Prove?
- Kathy Kelly: Cold Shoulders
- Julian Sanchez: Wiretapping's True Danger
Saturday July 5, 2008
- Bob Ostertag: Obama Tries and Fails to Put Out the FISA Fire in His Own House
- David W. Fleming and James P. Gray: This Is The US On Drugs
- Joel McNally: GOP Just Can't Give Enough To Big Oil
- Tom Hayden: Barack at Risk
- Dean Baker: Employment Rate Drops as Economy Sheds 62,000
- John R. Talbott: When Will the Housing Crash End?
- Elizabeth Sawin: Can Love Change The Wording of Laws?
- Christopher Hitchens: Believe Me, It's Torture
- John Nichols: Jesse Helms, John McCain and the Mark of the White Hands
- Joseph L. Galloway: How Dare They Rip the Fourth Amendment?
- Christopher Brauchli: George Bush Meets the Environment-Part II
- Ritt Goldstein: Flooding, After the Deluge, and the Politics of Toxic Mold
Friday July 4, 2008
- Benjamin Senauer: The Appetite for Biofuel Starves the Poor
- Joe Conason: What John McCain Didn't Learn in Vietnam
- Joseph Mulligan S.J.: Celebrate Independence Day! Fight Encroaching Fascism!
- Phyllis Stenerson: Happy Birthday, America! And Many More?
- Thad Williamson: Top Ten Things You May Have Forgotten About The Declaration of Independence
- David Michael Green: The Ashes Have Been Passed To A New Generation
- Laura Flanders: Celebration In Colombia? Not So Fast.
- Medea Benjamin: July 4th and the 'Mischiefs of Foreign Intrigue'
- Juan Cole: Your Fourth of July and My Fourth of July
- Matthew Rothschild: Why I'm Not Patriotic
- John Nichols: This Day, Like the Future, Belongs to Patriots
- Janet Redman: Bush's Last Chance on Climate
- Scot Lehigh: Safeguarding Liberty and Justice for All
- Elizabeth Barajas-Roman and Mia Kim Sullivan: A Call for Empowerment, Not Hype and Hollywood Scapegoating
- Rinku Sen: Eating American on the Fourth of July
- Kathy Kelly: Istiklal: When Is Independence Day?
Thursday July 3, 2008
- Editorial: Nation's Worst Polluters
- Ellen Goodman: Think Global, Eat Local
- Amy Goodman: It's Not the Man, It's the Movement
- Naomi Klein: Disaster Capitalism: State of Extortion
- Peter Tatchell: Homeland Insecurity
- Rosa Brooks: The Founders' Rights Stuff
- Jay Bookman: Administration's Cynicism on Torture Breathtaking
- Bob Ostertag: Reality Time at MyBarackObama.com
- Tom Magstadt: New Atlantic Alliance Needed to Fight Carbon
- Martha Rosenberg: Chicago Sex Workers Assail Slanted Media
- Carolyn Eisenberg: A Devil's Bargain
- Christopher Cooper: The Darkness of This House Has Got the Best of Us
- Robert C. Koehler: Words and Bullets
- Chris Satullo: A Not-So-Glorious Fourth
- Lucinda Marshall: Patriotism in the Time of Treason
Wednesday July 2, 2008
- William Pfaff: Terror Goes a Lot Further With Good Advertising
- Ari Melber: Surveillance Protest Group Tops Obama Website
- Glenn Greenwald: The Right's Game-Playing With 'Dual Loyalty" and 'Anti-Semitism' Accusations
- Rick Shenkman: How Ignorant Are We?
- Mark Morford: My Handgun, My Parasite
- Andrew Greeley: Bush Used Phony Patriotism to Start War
- Ed Jones: Modern World Has Robbed Us of the Simple Joys in Life
- Robert Scheer: Happy Oil Dependence Day
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: New Path Runs Through J Street
- Frances Moore Lappe: Just Who's Doing the Hoarding? Food Independence and Real Democracy
- Bruce Dixon: The Hidden History of US Broadcasting
- Paul Waldman: Gen. Clark and That POW Thing McCain Hates Talking About
- John Pilger: From Triumph to Torture
Tuesday July 1, 2008
- Bob Herbert: 'Oh Happy Day'
- Salil Tripathi: Dalai Lama's Time Bomb
- Stephen Zunes: African Dictatorships and Double-Standards
- Marie Cocco: Ready, Aim, Backfire
- Tony Bogar: Dreaming of Barbecued Salmon? Save Water for Its Return
- Linda McQuaig: Averting Our Gaze From US Cruelty
- Barbara Crossette: The Bureaucracy of Rape
- George Monbiot: This Economic Panic Is Pushing the Planet Right Back Down the Agenda
- Derrick Z. Jackson: McCain's Agenda on Amtrak
- Tad Daley: 40 Years Later, Nuclear States Still Haven't Kept Promises
- Sean Gonsalves: Questioning How to Get Paid
- Peter Dreier: Will Obama Inspire a New Generation of Organizers?
- Arianna Huffington: Memo to Obama: Moving to the Middle Is for Losers