Steven Reynolds, The All Spin Zone AlterNet: PEEK. July 18, 2008. San Franciscan's signature gathering efforts pay off: SF will vote on GWB sewage plant measure in November.
Gavan McCormack, Foreign Policy in Focus. July 15, 2008. "Through the prism of beef, South Koreans confront the limitations of key contemporary institutions: democracy, capitalism, and nationalism."
Briggs Bomba, AlterNet. July 12, 2008. The best path to democracy in Africa? Strengthening institutions and pressuring them to uphold their protocols on human rights and good governance.
Noam Chomsky, Khaleej Times Online. July 12, 2008. U.S. war planners want an obedient client state that will house major U.S. military bases, right at the heart of the world's major energy reserves.
David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. July 11, 2008. Across America, local culture has been supplanted by fast food and sub-par Will Smith movies. No wonder people don't care about hometown issues.
Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation. July 7, 2008. America is experiencing a surge of hope -- the time is right to invigorate our damaged democracy and capture greater power for the people.
Michael Waldman, Brennan Center for Justice. June 12, 2008. The Electoral College is an affront to basic democracy, warping competition and subverting political equality -- even when it works.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. June 3, 2008. In a dramatic speech, Chris Hedges warns that the nation is on the verge of becoming a full-blown corporate state.
Robert Parry, Consortium News. May 16, 2008. Imagine the dire consequences if McCain appoints a fifth radical Supreme Court justice who believes in an all-powerful Executive Branch.
Eric Weiner, Foreign Policy. May 8, 2008. Politicians have long clung to the notion that free nations breed happy people. Now, a new 'science of happiness' turns that equation on its head.
Ted Widmer, MIT Center for International Studies. April 30, 2008. Wilson's idealistic vision of democracy and self-determination around the world should serve as a model for the Democrats' foreign policy.
Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Media Services. March 31, 2008. Our elections are plagued by vote suppression and fraud. Making sure we have a fair election in 2008 is even more important than who wins.
Daniel Wilkinson, The Nation. March 3, 2008. Venezuela deserves to be the subject of a vigorous regional debate. Instead what we've gotten has been more like a shouting match.
Daniel Volman, Beth Tuckey, Foreign Policy in Focus. March 2, 2008. The Pentagon's new AFRICOM is all about securing oil resources, countering terrorism, and rolling back Chinese influence.
David T. Z. Mindich, AlterNet. February 29, 2008. The Reichstag fire helped transform Germany from a democracy to a dictatorship. What can we do to avoid a similar outcome?
Jason Marsh, Greater Good. February 13, 2008. Seven principles that could offer a new model of American power -- one that inspires and mobilizes other nations to work with us.
Chris Hedges, The Nation. January 15, 2008. With House Resolution 888, the religious right seeks to rewrite American history, turning the founding fathers into Christian fundamentalists.
Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. January 14, 2008. The Democrats' fizzle in the face of the power-grabbing Bush administration is doing serious damage to America's political psyche.
Larry J. Sabato, AlterNet. December 6, 2007. Our founding fathers would be amazed and disappointed that after 220 years, the inheritors of their Constitution had not tried to adapt the document to developments they couldn't have anticipated.
Medea Benjamin, AlterNet. November 29, 2007. The heroes in Pakistan aren't returning former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif -- it's the Supreme Court and High Court judges who stopped Musharraf's assault on the Constitution.
