Energy | Action”Skyrocketing natural gas prices have forced the Senate Energy Committee to come up with a new way to lower the costs. Unfortunately, their �solution� to this problem may … [Keep reading >>]

Election | Ohio ProtestSF Rally Jan 3: Wellstone Democratic RenewalOhio Election Fraud (Formerly “Fairness”)What to Do: The Dean PeopleUS Voting ProjectOnLinePetition: Contest the Vote … [Keep reading >>]

The War | The Antiwar”Disappearing the Anti-War Movement at the NYTs”John Walsh: Disappearing the Peace Movement … [Keep reading >>]

2004: A Dose of PerspectiveCritical Voices from Mid-AmericaBetty Baye of the Louisville Courier-Journal gets in (for me) the last word about 2004, a year in which we lost a critical … [Keep reading >>]

The Second Bush Term: Steering the BattleshipThe Baltimore Sun pays respect to Bush’s ability to bend the unwieldy federal bureaucracy even as the paper scorns the direction — on forests … [Keep reading >>]

Civil Society | War OnYou will not be surprised to know that Daniel Pipes, the neo-con one-man-band of Evil, Islamist, Evil, is also a fan of the internment of Americans … [Keep reading >>]

War on Terror | FramingThis piece and the responses will interest many of you. The problem is that not one good answer comes up to the implicit question: what is … [Keep reading >>]

Authentic Hero Watch”Christine O’Grady Gregoire is on top of the world. On Thursday, after three terms as attorney general and a highly publicized victory over America’s tobacco industry, Democrat Gregoire … [Keep reading >>]

Elections in Ukraine: Only the First StepCritical Voices from Mid-America The New Orleans Times-Picayune reminds readers that getting elected president of Ukraine might turn out to be the ‘easy’ part: … [Keep reading >>]

Election Aftermath: Democrats Reorganize in Ohio and KentuckyCritical Voices from Mid-AmericaMichael Collins of the Cincinnati Post expresses some optimism that the energy generated by the Kerry campaign will translate into … [Keep reading >>]

Tsunami: Images of Fear and DisbeliefCritical Voices from Mid-AmericaIt has been difficult for most of us to wrap our brains around what has been happening in south Asia this … [Keep reading >>]

The Media | WomenLooks interesting…”A testimony to the rising clout of global women’s voices, a new glossy, independent publication launches this week called World Pulse. Symbolizing the ‘pulse’ of new … [Keep reading >>]