The Progressive Online Issues 2006

Comment Plan for Quagmire

Barbara Ehrenreich ponders the greed of oil company executives.

Nat Hentoff witnesses an attack on the people’s right to know.

Howard Zinn says it’s time to end not just this war but all war.

Ruth Conniff smells political change in the air.

Next Target: Birth Control Barbara Miner
Abortion hardliners move against “the contraceptive mentality.”

Persecution in Haiti Judith Scherr
Even the U.N. contingent has been implicated in the repression.

The Dalai Lama Amitabh Pal
“Once the day of our return comes, I will go into complete retirement,” says the Tibetan leader. “There will be no political role for the Dalai Lama.”

Poem by Mario Susko

The Mavericks’ Maverick by Dave Zirin
Mark Cuban is a political work-in-progress.

Kate Clinton commemorates the “Year of MoreThan Just One Woman.”

Molly Ivins is bored with Bush.

Comment King George

Barbara Ehrenreich warns that Bush isn’t the only snoop.

Eduardo Galeano offers fables for the twenty-first century.

Ruth Conniff surveys the grounds for impeachment.

Beyond Iraq’s Elections David Enders
Many Iraqi voters cast their ballots to boot out the Americans.

Fear Rules Fish and Wildlife Service Tim Vanderpool
The scientific integrity of the nation’s top wildlife agency is at stake.

A New Weavers’ Song Ronnie Gilbert

Poem by Devorah Major

Molly Ivins reads the rule of law to the Testy Kid.

Comment Audacity and Mendacity

Barbara Ehrenreich asks who the real home wreckers are.

Ruth Conniff cheers on a groundswell of activity in the states.

Matthew Rothschild feels a chill in the classroom.

Eduardo Galeano welcomes Evo back to Paradise.

A Recruiter’s Son Matthew Pascarella
My mother is one of the top recruiters in the Army. My friend is about to cross the border into Iraq.

From Torture Victim to President by Alfonso Daniels
Meet Michelle Bachelet, the new Socialist president of Chile, and the first woman to head that country.

Prison Outbreak Kai Wright
Thousands of prisoners with hepatitis C are being doubly punished by a corrections system that is refusing to treat them.

Cindy Sheehan David Barsamian
"If every peace person just stops one kid from joining the military, that’s one potential American life saved," says the activist.

Poem by Robert Nazarene

Molly Ivins has had it with Hillary.

Comment Grounds for Impeachment

Barbara Ehrenreich introduces George Bush to Lorraine.

Matthew Rothschild discovers a VA nurse accused of sedition.

Ruth Conniff watches Bush miss his “moonshot moment.”

America’s Blinders by Howard Zinn.

DeLay’s Day of Reckoning? by Lou Dubose .

The voters in his own district may get rid of him.

“Our Job Is Not to Stand Up and Cheer When the President Breaks the Law” by Senator Russ Feingold.

Hanan Ashrawi by Jon Elmer

“I don’t see why the Palestinian people should be punished for exercising their will,” says the independent legislator.

Poem by ennis Trudell

Molly Ivins observes a spectacle of klutzes.

Comment Beware the Bombing of Iran

Barbara Ehrenreich salutes the French.

Matthew Rothschild warns you to watch your bumper.

No Housecleaning Gary Ruskin
Congress isn’t really for sale because the current owners are quite pleased with it.

Warren Anderson’s Silence by Kirk Nielsen
Tracking down the man who presided over the Bhopal disaster.

Lewis Lapham by Ruth Conniff
“There is a lot more feeling in favor of impeaching Bush than one would be led to believe by reading the mainstream media coverage,” says the former editor of Harper’s Magazine.

Poem by Kevin A. González

Molly Ivins encourages us to support emerging democracies, like the U.S.

Comment A Gouging Market

Edwidge Danticat be holds immigrants coming out from the shadows.

Ruth Conniff questions Dems about censure.

Roadblocks to Asylum by Tram Nguyen
“If I go back, it will be my death,” says Hortense, who fled the Congo but now awaits her fate.

The Dope Dealer Who Got 55 Years by Sasha Abramsky
Even the judge called his sentence cruel, unusual, and irrational.

Squelching Freedom in Iraqi Kurdistan by David Enders
Bush calls the region a success, but local security forces are cracking down on dissent.

Dar Williams by Matthew Rothschild
The folk singer says she “looks at the flags and the symbols and the jingoisms of our personal fiefdoms.”

Poem by Frederick Foote

Molly Ivins sees a fence that won’t work.

Comment The Horrors of Haditha

Ruth Conniff says grassroots groups can help cure what ails the Democrats.

Howard Zinn

Matthew Rothschild

Luis J. Rodríguez

On the Bus with Katherine Harris by Stephen Elliott

Hugo Chávez by Greg Palast.

Poem by Maxine Kumin

Will Durst calls for impalement.

Kate Clinton tries to hang up on Verizon.

Molly Ivins spies the guiltiest men in the room.

Elizabeth DiNovella reviews Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero, by David Maraniss.

Comment The Reign of Secrecy

Barbara Ehrenreich judges a bad boss contest.

Eduardo Galeano surveys some walls, from Palestine to the Western Sahara.

Matthew Rothschild tells how a Santorum aide and a state trooper threw their weight around.

NoWedding Bells by Judith Davidoff
Why banning same-sex marriage spells disaster.

The Paul Revere of Global Warming by Bruce E. Johansen
Meet Jim Hansen of NASA, who is standing up to the Bush Administration.

Medicaid Loses Out by Kai Wright
As states slash the rolls, the disabled take the hit.

The Blogosphere Goes to Vegas by Stephen Elliott .

Poem by Sam Hamill

Will Durst runs down some good news and bad news.

Kate Clinton tries to hang up on Verizon.

Molly Ivins searches for the GOP’s moral compass.

Comment The Reign of Secrecy

Barbara Ehrenreich judges a bad boss contest.

Eduardo Galeano surveys some walls, from Palestine to the Western Sahara.

Matthew Rothschild tells how a Santorum aide and a state trooper threw their weight around.

NoWedding Bells by Judith Davidoff
Why banning same-sex marriage spells disaster.

The Paul Revere of Global Warming by Bruce E. Johansen
Meet Jim Hansen of NASA, who is standing up to the Bush Administration.

Medicaid Loses Out by Kai Wright
As states slash the rolls, the disabled take the hit.

The Blogosphere Goes to Vegas by Stephen Elliott .

Poem by Sam Hamill

Will Durst runs down some good news and bad news.

Kate Clinton tries to hang up on Verizon.

Molly Ivins searches for the GOP’s moral compass.

Comment Afghanistan Unliberated

Barbara Ehrenreich takes pity on Wal-Mart.

Ruth Conniff looks at the anti-peace movement.

The Myth of the Ticking Time Bomb Alfred W. McCoy
Why this common rationale for torture does not hold up.

Colonial Police Force by Uri Avnery
The failure of the Israeli army comes as no surprise to me.

Hezbollah’s Bounded Victory Raed El Rafei
Hezbollah did emerge strengthened after the war, but not enough for it to control Lebanon.

John Dean by Matthew Rothschild
“I began looking closely at Bush and finding the striking Nixonian features of this Presidency,” says President Nixon’s White House counsel.

Will Durst comes up with a winning playbook for the Democrats.

Poem Dahlia Ravikovitch

Books Matthew Rothschild debunks the 9/11 conspiracy theories.

Molly Ivins is no friend of Fidel.

Comment The Assault on Democracy

Barbara Ehrenreich surveys the shamers and the shamees.

Howard Zinn discusses the futility of war.

Matthew Rothschild tells of two professors who gotstopped at the border.

Which Democratic Party? Ruth Conniff

Worse Than Hanging Chads by Kirk Nielsen

Medicaid Loses Out by Kai Wright
As states slash the rolls, the disabled take the hit.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. by David Kupfer .

Poem by Mahmoud Darwish

Elizabeth DiNovella reviews The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan.

Molly Ivins remembers Ann Richards.

Comment The Reign of Secrecy

Barbara Ehrenreich Barbara Ehrenreich hears a cry for help.

Luis J. Rodríguez dentifies a better way to deal with gangs.

Matthew Rothschild profiles two people who were hassled for wearing a T-shirt with Arabic on it.

“Leave Us Alone,” Iranian Reformers Say by Muhammad Sahimi.

A Conservative for Impeachment by Brian Gilmore

Wallace Shawn by Elizabeth DiNovella

“It is astounding that America does work in the same way that an open dictatorship works, in that a handful of people really seem to be able to dominate an entire country,” says the playwright and actor.

Poem by Spoon Jackson

As chosen by Kate Clinton, Ruth Conniff, Anne-Marie Cusac, Elizabeth DiNovella, Susan J. Douglas, Barbara Ehrenreich, Andrea Lewis, John Nichols, Amitabh Pal, Luis J. Rodríguez, and Matthew Rothschild..

Molly Ivins catches the Bushies playing with numbers.