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In the wake of the Alito hearings, mainline pundits are calling his nomination a done deal. Alito didn’t spew obscenities or green…
Paul Rogat Loeb
Paul Rogat Loeb is the author of Soul of a Citizen and The Impossible Will Take a Little While, with nearly 300,000 in print between them.
Since Bill Moyers retired, I watch PBS pretty rarely. I remembered why when I saw the NOVA special on New Orleans, ‘The…
We learn much from how we present our heroes. A few years ago, on Martin Luther King. Day, I was interviewed on…
From the moment the John Roberts nomination was announced, the media called it a done deal. NPR and the New York Times…
As right-wing religious leaders attack Alberto Gonzales for being insufficiently doctrinaire, it’s tempting to accept him as the best we can get…
“They died for their country,” read the white granite memorial in the Concord, Massachusetts town square, honoring local men who died in…
It’s bad enough that the Bush administration had so little international support for the Iraqi war that their “coalition of the willing”…
As the Senate votes in Bush’s long-filibustered nominees, the nuclear option compromise is looking more rancid than reasonable. The seven Democrats who…
If Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jim Hightower, Stephen Shalom, and Ralph Nader’s former running mate Winona LaDuke haven’t convinced you…
A few years ago, I heard Archbishop Desmond Tutu speak at a Los Angeles benefit for a South African project. He’d been…