Matthew Rothschild, Ruth Conniff, Amitabh Pal

Mohammed Omer won the Martha Gellhorn Prize. But the State Department is sitting on his visa.read more

Why did the New York Times believe it had to hire such a scoundrel? And why did we not get a full report on this relationship before?read more

The United States is the biggest merchant of death, accounting for almost one-third of the sales, with Russia close behind, having nearly one-fourth of the total. Why on Earth are countries buying up such junk, especially in hard times?read more

Women, and everyone else affected by this compromised legislation, deserve better.read more

The bill is still grossly inadequate, as Kucinich himself recognizes. And as Howard Zinn taught us, our job, as citizens, is not to compromise but to stand on principle.read more

Given the colossal damage the big banks have wreaked, and the systemic flaws this scandal has exposed, Congress is not responding with the requisite vigor.read more

I hate Reverend Phelps’s speech. But the First Amendment is there to protect speech that we find rude and reprehensible. Otherwise, we wouldn’t need it.read more

“Democracy” was never much more than an afterthought for the Bush team.read more

How do we get where we want to be—nonprofit national health care—from where we are right now?read more

“Women about one second older than I was and one second earlier in the job market were the ones who filed the suits and did the demonstrations and forced newspapers to start hiring women and promoting them.”read more

“There’s just no reason for them to be doing that,” says Paul Prebys, one of the founders of Alaskans for Peace & Justice. “It’s an incredible invasion of my privacy.”read more

Her shameless embrace of Honduran President Pepe Lobo puts the United States on the side of human rights abusers again.read more

On Wednesday, he exploited advocates of a single-payer health care system as a foil to say, in not so many words, “I’m not an extremist like they are.”read more

Today, there are 75% more vehicles on the road than there were in 1980, but the number of people doing enforcement at the highway traffic safety agency has gone down by 50%. The creed of anti-regulation has cost at least 56 lives in Toyota crashes.read more

Bunning's obstructionist stand epitomizes Republican politics: cruel and out of touch—totally unconcerned about people's suffering.read more