Will the Progressive Majority Emerge?
Rick Perlstein : New polling data shows that the majority of Americans are leaning liberal. How long will it take politicians and the media to get that?
Fiona Ng looks at human rights in Hong Kong, LynNell Hancock considers New York City school reform, Alexander Cockburn gives a history lesson.
Articles
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School's Out
LynNell Hancock : The radical corporate overhaul of NYC public schools is draining the soul from education and reducing learning to a series of standardized tests and progress reports.
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Hong Kong, Ten Years After
Fiona Ng : Ten years of Chinese rule in Hong Kong hasn't resulted in severe human rights abuses, but full democracy has yet to emerge.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Eyeless in Gaza
: The disaster in Gaza has many fathers, but its most direct cause was the Bush Administration's cynical manipulation of democracy promotion.
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In Praise of Red Tape
Christopher Hayes : When lawmakers and the media failed to hold the Bush Administration to account, it was left to bureaucrats to defend the integrity of government.
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Revolution in Venezuela?
Joaquín Villalobos : Oil money allows Hugo Chávez to do many things, but it will never be enough to buy a revolution.
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A New Green Card Deal
Mae M. Ngai : History is full of examples showing that policies designed to exclude immigrants are doomed to fail.
Reviews
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book
The Improbable Moralist
Phillip Lopate : Leonard Michaels's fiction captured his evolution from sex-obsessed misogyny to self-identified moralism.
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book
Company Man
Lynn Garafola : Martin Duberman's biography of Lincoln Kirstein is a case study of the relationship between art and power.
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film
Anatomy of a Murder
Stuart Klawans : Reviews of A Mighty Heart, Sicko, Czech Dream and Unborn in the USA.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
On the Tributes to Scooter Libby That So Underwhelmed the Judge
Calvin Trillin : It takes one to know one.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
Zyklon B on the US Border
Alexander Cockburn : A grim history lesson of what happened in the 1920s when fears of alien infection inflamed American eugenicists.
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
Anything Boys Can Do...
Katha Pollitt : The Dangerous Book for Boys does no boy a favor by resuscitating the Anglo-imperial manly ideals. And what about girls?
Web
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TruthDig
Taxpayers Lose, Halliburton Gains
Robert Scheer : A new report on Halliburton's role in the failed reconconstruction of Iraq documents how profits of the merchants of death are rising.
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Religious Leaders Challenge a Polluter
Sara Shipley Hiles : A delegation of church leaders traveled to the US, calling on corporate mogul Ira Rennert to clean up the smelters that are poisoning the children of Peru.
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Who Is Hillary Clinton?
Barbara Ehrenreich : A closer look at Hillary Clinton's career reveals a technocratic centrist whose political ambition might trump any progressive policy promises.
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Howl
The House that Hedge Funds Built
Nicholas von Hoffman : The rickety financial skyscaper known as the subprime mortgage business is ready to tumble--and the rest of us may be buried in the rubble.
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Cheney and the Constitution
Aziz Huq : If you think the Vice President's abuse of power is scary now, consider what might happen when he counts Electoral College votes in a divisive 2008 election.
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Watch Your Foodometer
VideoNation : Here's a way to consume less oil: Eat locally! Video artist Molly Schwartz traces how far food travels from field to fork.
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Lady With a Lawnmower
Donna Schaper : She cuts her lawn slowly with a push mower. I save time, hiring men to run machines, burn gas, kill the ozone. Who's the wiser?
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Getting Real About Food
Donna Schaper & Molly Schwartz : Something very strange has happened to food in the richest country in the world: It's fast, but it ain't good. And it travels way too far a distance from the field to your fork.
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A Call to Bring All Troops Home
Tom Hayden : The Center for American Progress is calling to bring all combat forces--including trainers--home from Iraq.
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Who's Afraid of History?
Stanley I. Kutler : Official Washington wants to avoid the "divisive ordeal" of looking at what went wrong in Iraq. But upcoming hearings for Admiral Michael Mullins' nomination as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the perfect opportunity.
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Emerging Writers
Voices in Conflict
Emily Douglas : When Wilton High School censored a student play about the Iraq war, the cast went to the Public.
Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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