While Congress is throwing another $33 billion into the Afghanistan sinkhole, WikiLeaks takes on the oversight duties the lawmakers ought to perform.
What WikiLeaks did was brilliant journalism, and the bleating critics from the president on down are revealing just how low a regard they have for the truth.
What has Mexico's US-funded War on Drugs accomplished? On the ground in Ciudad Juárez, the answer is written in blood.
Traveling along the Danube into the heart of the new Europe.
Two new books argue that the South's slaveholding republic faced a crisis of legitimacy from the outset.
Did liberal principles or sectarian impulses mobilize Lebanon's "Cedar Revolution" to protest against the Syrian regime?
With scores of coastal residents out of work after the spill, BP is hiring inmates to clean up its mess—and getting lucrative tax breaks in the process.
While the middle class disappears and more Americans fall into poverty, the wealthiest people in our country are using their wealth and political power to protect their privileged status at everyone else's expense.
The mainstream media's long-time kid-glove treatment of Andrew Breitbart led directly to the unjustified ouster of Shirley Sherrod.
Most coverage of the allegations against Al Gore has given us permission to giggle when what we need is a sober dose of reality.
Conservative housewives have the same desire for power and respect that liberal women do. No wonder women comprise half of the Tea Party movement.
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In Dissent's Summer issue, Eugene Goodheart decries liberal disillusio...
The newest Speaker on our 2010 Cruise is Amy Goodman, Host of Democracy Now! and author of Breaking the Sound Barrier that has just hit the New York Times Bestseller List. |