Z Needs Your Help!
Given the state of our economy, one might expect a welfare reauthorization bill to offer emergency assistance to the poor and aid…
Mark Engler
Mark Engler is a writer based in Philadelphia, an editorial board member at Dissent, and co-author of "This Is An Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-first Century" (Nation Books). He can be reached via the website www.DemocracyUprising.com.
In 1961, an interracial group of student activists boarded busses to commence a ride into the Deep South. Branded “niggers and nigger-lovers,”…
The success of welfare reform is a faith-based proposition in Washington, D.C. This month, as lawmakers debate the reauthorization of welfare legislation,…
I n late May, an internal Department of Justice review confirmed what critics had long charged were frightening violations of civil liberties…
As far from Bill Clinton as the extremist George W. Bush appears today, certain things hold the same for both presidents, particularly…
Keeping track of the “real reason” for the invasion of Iraq can be quite a chore these days. The Bush administration doggedly…
Evian, France — the world capital of designer water — may be a fitting city to host the heads of state from…
Since the invasion of Iraq has ended, a tone of vindication and bravado has seeped into the national mood. Television newscasters and…
Since Baghdad fell, Defense Department hawks have devoted themselves to gloating about the never-questioned supremacy of the United States’ armed forces. However,…
Starting from within view of the United Nations’ headquarters, a wall of faces stretched some twenty blocks up Manhattan’s First Avenue on…