Views - May 2009
Sunday May 31, 2009
- Frank Rich: Who Is to Blame for the Next Attack?
- Haroon Siddiqui: Muslims Wait for Obama to Deliver
- Kevin Zeese: Max Baucus Should Not Be Deciding Health Care for America
- Abdul Malik Mujahid : Engaging American Muslims Will Give a Far Better Message to the Muslim World than Speeches
- Karen Yi: Sonia Sotomayor and the Status Quo
- Joe Copeland: Nuke Test Makes Nuclear Abolition More Important Than Ever
- George Lakoff: Empathy, Sotomayor, and Democracy: The Conservative Stealth Strategy
- Bill Quigley: Revolutionary Haitian Priest, Gerard Jean-Juste, Presente!
Saturday May 30, 2009
- Rajendra Pachauri: The Silent Suffering
- Frida Berrigan: Defense Budget Shell Game
- Curtis White: The Barbaric Heart
- Christopher Brauchli: The Credit Card and the NRA
- Caroline Arnold: Single Payer: Not Cash Cows, but Good Neighbors
- Ralph Nader: Letter to President Obama
- Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Everyone Should See 'Torturing Democracy'
Friday May 29, 2009
- Jitu Brown/Eric Gutstein/Pauline Lipman: Arne Duncan and the Chicago Success Story: Myth or Reality?
- Irene Khan: Underlying the Economic Crisis is a Human Rights Time Bomb
- Madeline Ostrander: Climate Crisis: What Would it Look Like to Do Everything We Can Imagine?
- Ali Abunimah: Mr. Abbas Goes to Washington
- Jeremy Scahill: When Gibbs Attacks
- Stephen Zunes: Defending Israeli War Crimes
- Camillo Bica: If Iraq was a Mistake, Why are We Still There?
- NYT Editorial: Forests and the Planet
- Harvey Wasserman: The NYTimes Finally Reports the Economic Disaster of New Nukes
- Olga Bonfiglio: Who Wants to Be George W. Bush?
- Ray McGovern: The Facts Thwart Rehab of Colin Powell
- Medea Benjamin: During His Trip to Egypt, Obama Should Visit Gaza
Thursday May 28, 2009
- William Astore: Educating Ourselves to Oblivion
- Harvey Wasserman: The 8 Green Steps to Solartopia
- Peter Marcuse: Socialism One Sector at a Time
- Mary Jo Leddy: Let Iraq War Resisters Stay in Canada
- Mark Weisbrot: The US and UK Need More Stimulus
- Christopher Cooper: First We Got The Bomb And That Was Good
- Margaret Krome: Children Plant Carrots and Democracy
- Robert Parry: Obama Caves to 'Scaredy-Cat Nation'
- Roane Carey: Israel: Prussia on the Mediterranean?
- Laura Flanders: The President of Paradox
- Thomas Frank: The GOP's Feigned Outrage
- Ted Rall: An Early Call for Obama's Resignation
- Mark Morford: The Big Gay Shrug
- Danny Schechter: Will This Financial Crisis Lead to True Reform or Plunder without End?
- Tom Gallagher: Make the Afghanistan War Supporters Hear Us – At the Polls
- Ralph Nader: Avoiding Corporate Liability
Wednesday May 27, 2009
- Glenn Greenwald: Justice Samuel Alito on Empathy and Judging
- David Sirota: Teabags vs. Douchebags
- Linda Martín Alcoff: Sotomayor’s Reasoning
- Matthew Rothschild: FBI Infiltrates Iowa City Protest Group
- Andy Worthington: Guantánamo and the Many Failures of US Politicians
- Michael Schwalbe: Radical Vision and Elbow Grease
- SF Chronicle Editorial: Proposition 8 Ruling: Separate and Unequal
- John Feffer: Nightmare on Cheney Street
- Tad Daley: Taking North Korea at Their Word
- Single Payer Action: Disruption of Congress or Corruption of Congress?
- Tom Hayden: The Silence of MoveOn
- Faramarz Farbod: Obama and Iran: New Hopes, Old Dangers
- Donna Smith: Baucus 8 Charged: It’s an Outrage Outdone Only by Their Humanity
- Amy Goodman: Chevron, Shell and the True Cost of Oil
- Robert Scheer: Stuff the Bankers, Starve the Kids
Tuesday May 26, 2009
- Conn Hallinan: Shadow Wars
- Jeff Biggers: New York is Burning
- Jay Walljasper: Here's Good News About Your Net Worth
- Robert Naiman: IraqTortureGate: Powell Denies Knowing He Used Tortured Evidence for UN Case
- Marcy Wheeler: The CIA's Torture Untruths
- Bob Fitrakis: Democratic Socialists? Democrats Not Half That Good
- Peter Singer: The Value of a Pale Blue Dot
- Robert Kuttner: Tough Love for Obama
- Jeremy Scahill: If Iran Freed Roxanna Saberi, Why Won't the US Release Journalist Ibrahim Jassam?
- John Nichols: Obama's Pick, Sonia Sotomayor, Reflects America
- Derrick Z. Jackson: Deadly - Guns in National Parks
- David Michael Green: Overcoming the Poverty of Ambition: Barack Obama and the Bully Pulpit
- Andy Kroll: The Financial Bailout: The Greatest Swindle Ever Sold
- Glenn Greenwald: Backlash Grows Against Obama's Preventive Detention Proposal
- Dean Baker: Waterboard the Fed?
- Robert Parry: Colin Powell Skates Free on Torture
- Marjorie Cohn: Obama’s Guantánamo Appeasement Plan
Monday May 25, 2009
- James Carroll: War Room is No Place for Bible Study
- Sarah Lazare: Just One More Thing, Soldier
- Chris Hedges: ‘Clean’ Energy and Poisoned Water
- Hanan Habibzai: Poets Mirror Feelings of Afghans Caught in Conflict
- Josh Ruebner: Rethinking the Costs of Peace
- Gary Younge: If Obama Cedes Ground on Torture to Cheney, We'll All Pay a Heavy Price
- Jeff Biggers: Raising the Dead: Memorial Day Activists Jailed in Protest to Stop 998 Coal Sludge Deaths
Sunday May 24, 2009
- Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr.: Now at Last It's Time for Shell to Atone for My Father's Death
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: A Call for Universal Voter Registration
- Frank Rich: La Cage aux Democrats
- Laray Polk: RadWaste and Texas' Future
- Phillip Bannowsky: Capitalism Produces Rich Bankers, but Socialism Produces Happiness
Saturday May 23, 2009
- Dr. Marcia Angell: Held Hostage by the Health System
- Steve Carlson: The Awful Sound of Silence
- Paul Hawken: Paul Hawken's Commencement Address to the Class of 2009
- David Sirota: The House That Taxpayers Built
- Cary Alan Johnson: Exporting Homophobia
- Sibel Edmonds: Two Sides of the Same Coin: Heads-Heads
Friday May 22, 2009
- Ray McGovern: Cheney: Support for Israel Feeds Terrorism
- Karyn Strickler: A Failure of Leadership: Rapid and Massive Action Needed to Avert Climate Change
- Salena Tramel: Windows Into Gaza
- Bryan Farrell: Green Camo: Seeing Through the Military’s New Environmentalism
- Robert C. Koehler: Never Again
- Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Rx and the Single Payer
- Cesar Chelala: Torture Is Not a New US Foreign Policy Tool
- Paul Krugman: Blue Double Cross
- Andy Worthington: My Message to Obama: Great Speech, But No Military Commissions and No 'Preventive Detention'
- Madeline Ostrander: To Obama and the EPA: The Threat Is Real, It's Time to Act
- Tom Engelhardt: Going for Broke: Six Ways the Af-Pak War Is Expanding
Thursday May 21, 2009
- Glenn Greenwald: Obama's Civil Liberties Speech
- Andy Worthington: Out Of Guantánamo: African Embassy Bombing Suspect To Be Tried In US Court
- Sonali Kolhatkar & James Ingalls: America's Viceroy in Afghanistan
- Phyllis Bennis: Netanyahu at the White House: Not Yet Change We Can Believe In
- Matthew Rothschild: Democratic Socialists? You Bet!
- Jeremy Scahill: US Colonel Advocates US 'Military Attacks' on 'Partisan Media' in Essay for Neocon, Pro-Israel Group JINSA
- David Corn and Steve Aquino: Reid Helps GOP Go NIMBY on Gitmo
- Jodie Evans: Hiding Behind The Skirts Of Women
- John R. MacArthur: As Hitler Tightened the Screws: Hypocrisy and Conniving in France
- Jane Hamsher: Alan Grayson says 'Audit the Fed'
- Ted Rall: Bail Out Your Own Damn Self!
- Danny Schechter: Frauds R' Us: The Scams and Crimes of Wall Street
- Russell Mokhiber: Baucus Flees From Single Payer Advocates
- Janet Weil: It’s Time for the President To Get Real on Afghanistan
- Jasmin Ramsey: Obama's Prison
- Joseph Gerson: Obama, Nuclear Weapons and Abolition
- Mark Weisbrot: Big Business Gearing Up to Defend Protectionism Against UN Climate Negotiators
- Norman Solomon: The March of Folly, Continued
Wednesday May 20, 2009
- Peter Hart: Does the CIA Ever Lie? Parsing the Pelosi Torture Controversy
- Gregory Kaufmann: Shotguns, AK-47's and Your National Parks
- Gerald Paoli: Life and Death in the Qandil Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan
- Dave Lindorff: John Walker Lindh: The Original Bush Era Torture Victim?
- Sarah Simpson: Local Seeds vs. Big Guns
- Tom Schueneman: A Bit of Advice on Waxman-Markey: Beware the Lobbyists
- Pat LaMarche: Patriotism is More Than a Flag
- Kimberly Chase: Remote Warfare Radically Changes the Front Lines
- Glenn Greenwald: Terrorists in Prison: Is There Anything the Right Doesn't Fear?
- Roane Carey: Cultivating Peace in Palestine
- Robert Scheer: Our Loss Is BlackRock’s Gain
- Amy Goodman: Yoo’s Views Make Philly News
- Andy Worthington: Guantanamo: A Prison Built On Lies
- Dan Hamburg & Lewis Seiler: Mistakes Were Made
- Jeff Cohen: Will Obama Move Supreme Court Rightward?
Tuesday May 19, 2009
- Greg Mitchell: The (Unsurprising) Psychic Toll of the War in Iraq
- Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith: The Trials of Ehren Watada
- Suren Surendiran: Sri Lanka's Untold Story
- John Cusack: A War on Terror by Any Other Name
- Saleemul Huq: Bridging the Climate Change Gap
- Kevin Knobloch: Climate Legislation Opponents Up to Same Old Tricks
- Laura Flanders: Torturer in Chief: Media Pick Pelosi over Cheney
- Noam Chomsky: Unexceptional Americans: Why We Can't See the Trees or the Forest
- Rick Reyes: What Was I Fighting For?
- Dean Baker: Money to Burn: Was the Bank Bailout Really Necessary?
- Glenn Greenwald: Obama's Embrace of Bush Terrorism Policies is Celebrated as "Centrism"
- Josh Harkinson : Pelosi and Waterboarding: Why All The Fuss Over Old News?
- Robert Dreyfuss: Obama's Great Afghanistan Gamble
- Tom Gallagher: Why Are We in Afghanistan?
- Andy Worthington: Pain at Guantánamo and Paralysis in Government
- Ray McGovern: Colin Powell Got Snookered at CIA
Monday May 18, 2009
- Marcy Wheeler: The 13 People Who Made Torture Possible
- Jeremy Scahill: Spanish Investigation Reveals 'An Approved Systematic Plan of Torture' Under Bush
- Elizabeth DiNovella: Prima Facie Refugees
- Juan Cole: Obama Must Cow Netanyahu, Not the Other Way Around
- Deb Price: Gay Marriage Putting Down Strong Roots
- Kevin Zeese: Using Law License to Facilitate Torture Should Result in Disbarment
- Fawaz Gerges: Why Obama Should Release Photos
- Glenn Greenwald: The Myth of the Parasitical Bloggers
- Roberto Rodriguez: War & Torture: Subterfuge and the Science of Repeating Lies
- Nirmala Rajasingam: Sri Lanka's Silenced Dissenters Still Speak Volumes
- Gary Dorrien: A Case For Economic Democracy
- Robert Parry: Knowing 'What's Good for the Country'
- Olga Bonfiglio: Back to the 'Old Normal' of Domesticity
- Ira Chernus: CIA Briefs Obama for Talk with Netanyahu
- Chris Hedges: The Disease of Permanent War
Sunday May 17, 2009
- Asif Mehdi: The 21st Century's Bleak Harvest
- Eric Margolis: US Stirs a Hornet's Nest in Pakistan
- Richard Silverstein: AIPAC's Hidden Persuaders
- Bill McKibben: Can 350.org Save the World?
- Abdul Malik Mujahid: The Afghan Tragedy Continues
- Glenn Greenwald: Distorting Public Opinion on Torture Investigations
- Frank Rich: Obama Can’t Turn the Page on Bush
- Donna Smith: Middle Class Healthcare Reform? Bend Over…
- Andy Worthington: UK Government Lies Exposed; Spy Visited Binyam Mohamed In Morocco
Saturday May 16, 2009
- Patrick Cockburn: These Killings Will Only Strengthen the Taliban
- Glenn Greenwald: The NYT Sums up Obama's Civil Liberties Record in One Paragraph
- Michael Winship: What's So Funny about Washington?
- Christopher Brauchli: Baptism, Bees, and Salvation
- Joy-Ann Reid: The Media’s Collective Yawn Over Torture for War
- Dean Starkman: Power Problem: The Failure of the Business Press
- Dave Lindorff: Caught in a Lie: US is Using White Phosphorus in Afghanistan as a Weapon
- Gregg Kleiner: The Local UP-Side of the Global DOWN-Turn
- Howard Zinn: Changing Obama's Mindset
- Ralph Nader: Time For Renewable Energy
Friday May 15, 2009
- Andy Worthington: Death in Libya, Betrayal in the West
- Tom Andrews: Time to Stand Up as Congress Stands Down with War Funding Bill
- Jeremy Scahill: Little Known Military Thug Squad Still Brutalizing Prisoners at Gitmo Under Obama
- Paul Cummins: Fund Education, Not Occupations
- Matthew Harwood: America's Growing Surveillance State
- Joe Conason: We Tortured to Justify War
- John W. Dean: The Politics of Excusing Torture in the Name of National Security
- Ted Rall: Excuses You Might Believe In
- Sarah van Gelder: Single-Payer Advocates Deserve a Place at the Table
- Matthew Rothschild: Obama Is Becoming an Accessory after the fact to War Crimes
- Christopher Cooper: It's All Good
- David Sirota: Health Care's Enigma-In-Chief
- Joe Brewer: The Progressive Tribe and Improving the World
Thursday May 14, 2009
- Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis: The Cure for Layoffs: Fire the Boss!
- James Ridgeway: Congress' Credit Limit
- Dahlia Lithwick: The Incredible Shrinking Torture Defense
- Dan Froomkin: Deconstructing Obama's Excuses
- James Carroll: Cheer, Cheer for Old Notre Dame
- Glenn Greenwald: We Wouldn't Want to Inflame Anti-American Sentiment
- Gavin Schmidt: The Public Deserves the Full Picture on Climate Change
- Clive Stafford Smith: Without Truth About Torture, No Reconciliation
- Scott Horton: Torture Smoking Gun?
- Robert C. Koehler: Goliath's Vulnerability is the Truth
- Mark Weisbrot: Stealth Move in Washington Aims to Get $100 Billion for IMF Without Congressional Debate
- Ray McGovern: 'Ugly' Questions for Gen. Myers
- Tom Hayden: McChrystal's Rise: More Secrets, Less Daylight
- Amy Goodman: Baucus’ Raucous Caucus
- Glenn Greenwald: Obama's Latest Effort to Conceal Evidence of Bush Era Crimes
Wednesday May 13, 2009
- Andy Worthington: The "Suicide” Of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi: Why The Media Silence?
- Matthew Rothschild: McChrystal Wrong Man for the Job
- Richard Register: Cities Can Save the Earth
- Aaron Glantz: Ghost of Haditha Haunts American Shooting Spree in Iraq
- Jim Hightower: Look Who's Begging for Regulation
- César Chelala: Nuremberg is Valid Precedent for Iraq Trials
- Peter Dyer: Obama, Pakistan, and the Rule of Law
- Thomas Frank: You Can't Starve Government and Blame It Too
- John McQuaid: The Semantics of Torture (and How It Tortures American Journalism)
- Pepe Escobar: Pipelineistan in Conflict
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: Progressive Caucus Report on Afghanistan
- Michael Winship: Murtha: If I'm Corrupt, It's Because I Care
- Robert Scheer: Pelosi The Enabler
- Glenn Greenwald: The Massive Expansion of America's "Hard Left"
- Juan Cole: The Hidden Hand of Dick Cheney
Tuesday May 12, 2009
- Peter Dreier: Beware: Big Business is Targeting Moderate Dems with Campaign Dollars and Crying Wolf Arguments
- Jeff Biggers: Dear Mr. President: Declare August 3rd as Armistice Day in the Appalachian Coalfields
- Rose Hayden-Smith: There is No Box: Big Ideas About Urban Agriculture and Local Food Systems
- John Nichols: Bush, Cheney, Pelosi and Testifying About Torture
- Laura Flanders: Robbing Us and Paying Out
- Robert Dreyfuss: New General, Same War
- Abdul Malik Mujahid: The Mistake of Afghanizing Pakistan
- Paul Campos: How to Torture the Bush Six
- Sheila Samples: Seeds Of Truth
- Bob Herbert: 'What Color is That Baby?'
- Ivan Eland: Bloated Empire and the Financial Crash
- Joe Galloway: Six Lessons from Our Past Wars
- James Ridgeway: The Health Care Industry's PR Scam: Will Obama Fall for It?
- Leonardo Boff: The Century of The Rights of Mother Earth
- Tom Hayden & Joseph Gerson: The Politics of Escalation
- Dean Baker: Relief from the Stress Tests
- Norman Solomon: A Progressive Challenge to Jane Harman
Monday May 11, 2009
- Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR): The Bad PR of Dead Civilians
- John Nichols: The Future of Journalism
- M.S. Bellows, Jr.: Is Obama Naive About the For-Profit Health Industry's Commitment to Real Reform?
- David Smith-Ferri: We, Too, Are Underdogs
- Paul Kawika Martin: 60 Minutes Bombs on Drone Story
- Roy Eidelson: How Americans Think About Torture - and Why
- Vandana Shiva: Harvest of Suicides
- Barbara Ehrenreich: Use Jobless Time to Build Better World
- Glenn Greenwald: Roxana Saberi's Plight and American Media Propaganda
- Robert Kuttner: Collateral Damage and Double Standards
- Nick Turse: A Woman at the Edge
- Donald Cohen & Peter Dreier: Crying Wolf Again: Big Business Gearing Up for a Fight Against Obama's Environmental Program
- Joseph E. Stiglitz: Green Shoots? Don't Speak Too Soon
- Chris Hedges: Becoming What We Seek to Destroy
Sunday May 10, 2009
- Fran Korten: Would Obama’s Mother Be Amazed?
- Jen Marlowe: The Death Penalty Club
- Jonathan Schwarz : Cheney Learned Iran-Contra Lessons
- Dave Lindorff: The Obama Administration is Becoming a Stand-Up Comedy Act
- David Michael Green: Get Obama
- Marion Roach: Obama's Bad Stem Cell Compromise
- Patrick Cockburn: Who Killed 120 Civilians? The US Says It's Not a Story
- Frank Rich: The American Press on Suicide Watch
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: Blacks Must Confront Their Homophobia
Saturday May 9, 2009
- Margaret Flowers, M.D.: Why We Risked Arrest for Single-Payer Health Care
- Christopher Brauchli: U.S. Credit Cards and Spanish Debt Collectors - A Contrast
- Will Allen: We Need Food and Farming Regulation Now!
- Donna Smith: Happy Mother’s Day from America’s Health Insurance Plans and Mr. Baucus
- Paul Paz y Miño: Chevron’s Environmental Disaster in Ecuador
- Jim Hightower: Populism is Not a Style, It's a People's Rebellion Against Corporate Power
- Ralph Nader: Stop the Single Payer Shut-out!
Friday May 8, 2009
- Glenn Greenwald: If the US Does It, It's Not Torture
- Frida Berrigan: The News on Nukes
- John Nichols: A Democrat Calls for Executive Accountability
- Tom Porteous: Gaza: Pursuit of the Laws of War
- Johann Hari: Dear God, Stop Brainwashing Children
- Robert Kuttner: A Stalled Counter-Revolution
- George Monbiot: Climate Change Displacement Has Begun – but Hardly Anyone Has Noticed
- Eric Alterman: David Broder: Eyes Wide Shut
- David Sirota: Piggish Capitalism Endangers Us All
- Marcy Wheeler: Breaking News! CIA Manipulating Briefing Process
- Katrina vanden Heuvel & Greg Kaufmann: Smart Power in Pakistan/Afghanistan?
- Dave Lindorff: Stain Removal in the Ninth Circuit: The Bybee Challenge
- Ramzy Baroud: War without Context: Fatah, Hamas and Flawed Language
- Diane Farsetta: Pentagon Rejects Its Own Pundit Program Whitewash
- Denny LeBoeuf: Obama Can't Fix the Military Commissions
- Julie Hollar: Congo Ignored, Not Forgotten
- Paul Krugman: Stressing the Positive
- William Greider: Stress Test: Obama's Rosy Scenario
Thursday May 7, 2009
- Robert Fisk: Civilians Pay Price of War from Above
- Tom Engelhardt: The Everyday Extremism of Washington
- William Greider: Come Home, America
- Andy Worthington: Obama's Mixed Message on Torture Policy
- John Nichols: The Year of Same-Sex Marriage!
- Jeremy Scahill: A Response to Those Who Say Don't Prosecute Bush's Torture Lawyers
- Glenn Greenwald: What 'Oversight' Means in Washington
- Mark Weisbrot: US Strategy in Latin America was Wrong
- Leon Kreitzman: A World Out of Time
- Bangor Daily News Editorial: Marriage Equality in Maine: The Way Life Will Be
- Joseph Nevins: Pirates vs. Emperors
- Jodie Evans: In the Name of Mothers Around the World
- Joe Brewer: Building a Culture of Trust in Politics
- Rae Abileah: Where was Tikkun Olam at the AIPAC Conference in DC?
- Robert C. Koehler: The Hounds of Heaven
- Timothy Garton Ash: This Epochal Crisis Requires Us to Resolve the Paradox of Capitalism
- Jim Hightower: US Senate Stiffs the People, Cheers Wall Street
- Tom Andrews: The Missing Exit Strategy for Afghanistan
- Nick Baumann & David Corn: A Cheney Cover-Up?
Wednesday May 6, 2009
- Scott Horton: On Torture: Win One for the Gipper!
- Jeff Biggers/Vernon Haltom/Janet Keating: Urgent Letter to EPA and Interior Secretary
- Medea Benjamin: Who Will Stop the AIPAC Jews Before it is Too Late?
- Ray McGovern: Rudman: Deus ex Machina on Torture
- Andy Worthington: New Chief Prosecutor Appointed For Military Commissions At Guantánamo
- Neve Gordon: Israeli Activist to be Jailed for Caring
- Candice O'Grady: Hate Speech, Media Activism and the First Amendment
- Vanessa Ortiz: Postcard From...Bi'lin
- George Monbiot: How Much Should We Leave in the Ground?
- Glenn Greenwald: The Faux Defense of Western Liberties from the Anti-Muslim, Mark Steyn Right
- John Nichols: Tax Haven Rhetoric Doesn't Trump Job-Loss Reality
- Mike Davis: A Day Without Tourists: Tijuana Versus the Plague
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: The Battle for Healthcare Begins
- Robert Scheer: Cashing In on ‘Government Sachs’
- Amy Goodman: Pete Seeger Carries Us On
- Marjorie Cohn: Stanford Anti-War Alumni, Students Call for Condi War Crimes Probe
- Norman Solomon: We Need a Green New Deal
- Thom Hartmann: Arlen Specter Checked A Card
Tuesday May 5, 2009
- Robert Parry: 'One More Bubble!'
- Jeremy Scahill: Al Jazeera Strikes Back at Pentagon, Releases Unedited Footage of US Soldiers' 'Bible Study' in Afghanistan
- Donna Smith: Doctors, Single Payer Activists Arrested
- Claudia Chaufan: The Uninsured Are the Symptom, Not the Disease
- Glenn Greenwald: Jeffrey Rosen, TNR and the Anonymous Smears Against Sonia Sotomayor
- Bill Ong Hing & David Bacon: Immigration Reform: Rights, Not Raids
- Rela Mazali: Israel's War Against Youth
- Michael Lind: The 'Best and the Brightest'? Spare Me
- Todd Wilkinson: Wanna Shoot a Wolf? Come to Idaho!
- Andy Worthington: Obama Returns to Bush Era on Guantánamo
- Frances Kissling: You Can Spare a Dime to Save a Kid
- Dean Baker: Outsourcing Top Management: The Lesson of Fiat-Chrysler
- Robert Naiman: Stopping Pakistan Drone Strikes Suddenly Plausible
Monday May 4, 2009
- Jeremy Scahill: US Soldiers in Afghanistan Told to "Hunt People for Jesus... So We Get Them into The Kingdom"
- Jeff Leys: President Obama's War Budget: Analyzing the Numbers
- Susan Van Haitsma: The Planet’s Imperative: Stop War, Shine On
- Peter Dreier: Pete Seeger Deserves One More Honor - the Nobel Peace Prize
- Bob Kincaid: Making a 'Sacred Zone' in Appalachia
- Russell Mokhiber: Don't Even Go Near Single Payer
- Carol Goar: Giving Voice to Recession's Victims
- Jim Hightower: Bank Profits, Banker Pay and Other Banker Tricks
- Dilip Hiro: China: Defying the Economic Odds
- Chris Hedges: Buying Brand Obama
Sunday May 3, 2009
- Bama Athreya: May Day Fails Its Promise to Workers
- Lucinda Marshall: Aporkalypse Now—Finding the Real Swine in the Pandemic Pandemonium
- Mark Weisbrot: Why Latin America's Left Keeps Winning
- Eric Margolis: Pakistan Has World's Attention Now
- Glenn Greenwald: UAE 'Torture' Scandal and Cover-up Sparks Outrage in the US
- Peter Rothberg: Pete Seeger at 90
- Donna Smith: Get Them Out: Rotten Apples in Congressional Witness Bushel on Health Reform
Saturday May 2, 2009
- Robert Fisk: Right to the Very End in Iraq, Our Masters Denied Us the Truth
- Robert Naiman: On Israeli Settlement Freeze, Public Has Obama's Back
- Michael Moore: Bernie Madoff
- Danny Schechter: Banksters on the War Path: How Wall Street Is Fighting Back and Winning Their Fight for the Status Quo
- Russell Mokhiber: Inside the Beltway Baucus
- Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Mortgaging the White House
- Christopher Brauchli: Silence, Prayer and Other Activities
- Ralph Nader: The Lethargy Virus
Friday May 1, 2009
- Greg Mitchell: A 6th Anniversary Look Back at Media Coverage of 'Mission Accomplished'
- Jeremy Scahill: New UN Report Shows the US Combo of Torture and Impunity Thrives in Iraqi Prisons
- Johann Hari: Paying the Price for Cheap Meat
- Glenn Greenwald: Ronald Reagan: Vengeful, Score-Settling, Hard Left Ideologue
- Robert Fisk: A Historic Day for Iraq – but Not in the Way the British Want to Believe
- Gary Kamiya: America's Necessary Dark Night of the Soul
- Mark Morford: The Right Goes Insane
- Robert Parry: Who Betrayed Objective Journalism?
- David Michael Green: The Party Is Over
- Ramzy Baroud: Clinton’s Unpromising Start
- James K. Galbraith: Causes of the Crisis
- Mairead Maguire: Finding Heart and Courage: An Open Letter to President Obama
- David Sirota: Democrats and 'The Magic Bullet'
- Karen J. Greenberg: Kiss the Era of Human Rights Goodbye
- John Nichols: Obama Likely to Pick Woman to Replace Souter