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.
Robert B. Reich, Alfred A. Knopf. September 26, 2007. The awkward truth is that most of us are two minds: As consumers and investors we want the great deals. As citizens we don't like many of the social consequences that flow from them.
Michael Marx, Marjorie Kelly, YES! Magazine. August 29, 2007. The gap in power between corporations and democratic forces has widened enormously in recent decades. Here's what we do about it.
Nadia Martinez, YES! Magazine. August 20, 2007. As the people of Latin America build democracies from the bottom up, the symbols of power are changing. What does the new shift in power mean for world politics?
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. May 21, 2007. Katrina vanden Heuvel: The attempted eviction of the largest journalism association in Russia comes on the heels of several other actions aimed at curbing media independence and alternative views.
Brad Friedman, AlterNet. February 28, 2007. American democracy cannot afford another questionable presidential election. So why are the Democrats getting the solution so wrong?
Joe Conason, Thomas Dunne Books. February 23, 2007. In light of the series of laws passed in Congress and precedents set by the Bush administration, people have good reason to doubt the future of democracy and the rule of law in America.
