Until recently. Last year, 38 states introduced laws that would impose restrictions of one form or another on the right to vote. The restrictions will take their toll. In Florida, for example, the League of Women Voters has suspended its registration drives because it fears it cannot comply with extreme measures written into the new […]

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First, the fuss: Beinart, who attends an Orthodox synagogue and is at pains to stress he believes 100 percent in the Zionist project, would like to save Israel from itself. The ongoing colonization of Palestinian land seized in the 1967 war is killing any chance of a two-state solution, while Israel’s treatment of its non-Jewish […]

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There has been little media coverage of the tension between the Occupy Wall Street movement and the progressive institutions—such as MoveOn.org, the AFL-CIO, the United Auto Workers, SEIU, and Rebuild the Dream—that are working together as 99% Spring. Adbusters, the Vancouver-based anti-corporate collective that incited the September 2011 Occupy protest, warns that the movement is being […]

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Kabaservice concludes his book with an account of Mike Castle’s final run for public office, when the Delaware congressman was confronted by the same right-wing forces and money now brought to bear on Lugar in Indiana. Castle had been twice elected governor of Delaware, then served for nine years as the state’s single, at-large representative […]

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While disasters like hurricanes and floods are better remembered, heat waves cause more fatalities annually than all other natural disasters combined. Close to 800 people died in Chicago alone during a searing heat wave in 1995. As our fossil-fuel orgy drives the earth’s temperature upward, extreme-heat events will become more common, say researchers. A study […]

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