by Kate Clinton

On Monday night, September 10, we finally had our across-the-hall neighbors, Kevin and Jen, over for dinner.

Jen had recently quit her job with MTV International and was home more.read more

Theater of Good and Evil

In the fight of Good against Evil, it is always the people who end up dead.
The terrorists killed workers from fifty countries in New York and Washington in the name of Good against Evil.read more

by June Jordan

(The Book of Jonah, 4:4) dedicated to Stephanie Yan

Into that infamous Tuesday inferno of fire and structural collapse, a humbling number of men and women fell to a horrifying death.read more

by Michael T. Klare

Like other segments of American society, the U.S. peace movement was in considerable disarray after the September 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington.read more

by Adolph L. Reed Jr.

I live and work part of the time within two miles of the site of the World Trade Center.read more

by Barbara Ehrenreich
The view from the White House, not to mention much of Capitol Hill, is idyllic.read more

A Peppy Foreign Policy

What do you mean, you don't like George W. Bush's foreign policy? He's met twice now with Puddin' of Russia; he went to the G-8 deal and only one guy got killed; he met with the Popester, a rockin' guy, and didn't object that His Holiness was wearin' some kind of A-rab robe with a Jew-boy hat.read more

Last August, Wanda Yanello of Plano, Texas, was terribly worried. Her fifteen-year-old daughter, Heather King, had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The illness seemed to be accelerating. Heather was punching holes in the wall and was gone for days on end.read more

November 2000 Issue

Somewhere in the archives of Prague there is a collection of slogans that appeared on city walls, in shop windows, and on the metro during the Velvet Revolution. These slogans ("The truncheon--the beating heart of the Communist Party," "When you can't solve problems in your offices, we must solve them on the street," "The battle cry for today: Spread good humor") depict the spirit of resistance that culminated in the fall of Communist rule in the former Czechoslovakia a decade ago.read more

by Pratap Chatterjee

Early last October, members of the ninth grade girls' track team and the boys' football team at suburban Houston's Deer Park High School's north campus returned from practice reporting severe breathing problems.read more

July 2000

In prisons and jails across the country, inmates with HIV or AIDS are being denied proper treatment. In many cases, guards and medical staff have blocked inmates from getting their vital drug regimens, sometimes for months at a time, or have prescribed regimens that are dangerous. Such negligence can lead to drug resistance. It can also lead to death. "We routinely get letters from people who are not getting their medications," says Christine Doyle, research coordinator for Amnesty International, U.S.A.read more

by Lucy Komisar

Among the economic policy elite, Joseph Stiglitz is a heretic. The most prestigious critic of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the "Washington consensus," Stiglitz has voiced his views in the corridors of power.read more

Bush is doing in Guantanamo what guards are doing in the U.S. Intended as a restraint, it has led to torture and death.read more

October 1999 Issue

Indonesia's preeminent novelist died on April 30. Here is an interview Matthew Rothschild had with him, which ran in the October 1999 issue of The Progressive.read more