Politics

The Dems lost the keys to Election 2000, and the GOP stole the car. Manville on the betrayal of the New Democrats and the struggles ahead.

Toufic Haddad explores the Palestinian refugee camps in Gaza and sees the future. It's a bleak one.

James Mackenzie is looking on the bright side of the "election" of Bush.

Sure conservatives dress funny, talk funny and think funny. Now we know they protest funny too. Freezerbox looks back at the Miami Golfers riot of 2000.

Our 19th President, who knew a thing or two about electoral controversy, offers his services as a talking head.

Our Balkans correspondent reports on his afternoon with the KLA and Miss Albania 2000.

The three debates held this year were a total sham. And it was all the fault of the Commission on Presidential Debates, their partisan membership, their corporate obsequiousness, a shameful affront to Democracy.

Greed is good! Sing along with the Center for the Moral Defense of Capitalism.

Now that another round of sham debates are over, we can get down to the business of making sure it doesn't happen again. Target #1: corporate television.

Two other candidates that should have been included in the debates. Etta Neeya introduces us to the fringe — and their toolsheds.

Give me a program, a paradigm — anything!

As Prague girds itself for the biggest social protests in Central Europe since 1989, Chris Lord weighs up the two sides, and throws his weight behind one of them. With reservations, of course.

Only one man running for President deserves a single honest vote, and don't let anybody scare you into thinking otherwise. Jonah explains why it's actually quite easy being Green.

As the World Bank gets ready for its upcoming summit meeting in Prague, Paul Kail goes behind the rhetoric to look at the recently approved WB oil project in Chad-Camaroon. The Bank has not changed a stripe, just its public relations melody.

As political coverage moves into the internet age, Matthew Felling reminds us that not everyone is wired. Is this progress, or a new poll tax?

Should the IMF be reformed, or destroyed? What's at stake? And can a decentralized movement really do battle with such powerful institutions? Ben Day of the Direct Action Network is glad you asked.

Indian activist and author Vandana Shiva on globalization, poverty in India and genetically modified foods.

Is the gun control debate even about the right to bear arms? One more look at the NRA's America.

You don't have to be a reactionary to doubt the effectiveness of one dimensional sloganeering. Mike Manville on why tactics matter in the fight for a just world economy.

Noam Chomsky on the meaning of solidarity and the corporate attack on public education.