Left

  • The schizophrenic Obama

    Is the president selling out the working man, or waging class warfare on behalf of the proletariat? Because surely he can't be doing both at the same time?
    By Andrew Leonard March 31, 2009

  • Nader's nadir

    Even many of his former allies don't support maverick Ralph Nader's presidential bid. And more mainstream Democrats aren't just mad -- they're apoplectic.
    By Eric Boehlert February 21, 2004

  • "There are leftists, but there is no left"

    In These Times founder James Weinstein on the American left's "long detour" with communism, its current crisis, and the hope he sees in Howard Dean.
    By Joan Walsh October 30, 2003

  • The left's answer to the Osbournes

    A new book dishes the dirt on recently paroled Brinks robber Kathy Boudin and her high-powered -- and completely dysfunctional -- family.
    By Donna Minkowitz October 23, 2003

  • See no evil

    Progressives have lots of arguments against the war on Iraq -- some of them compelling. But why aren't they burning to free Saddam's oppressed masses?
    By Edward W. Lempinen March 19, 2003

  • "The North Vietnamese never bombed American cities"

    Progressive congressman Barney Frank talks about why he supports the war, opposes Bush's attack on civil liberties and thinks Clinton's military legacy is just fine.
    By David Talbot November 22, 2001

  • Bringing the war home

    Antiwar sentiment still runs deep in cities like Berkeley, Madison and Cambridge. But peace activists are being confronted by a strong wave of pro-war patriotism.
    By Damien Cave October 19, 2001

  • Together at last

    Now that Buchanan is taking his followers over to the Reform Party, the extreme right and extreme left can finally be united in their isolationist vision of the world.
    By David Horowitz November 8, 1999

  • Don't look back

    But if you do, how can you say whether your life might have turned out differently? For me, it was a stark choice: Accept the absolute limits on human hope or adhere to the destructive fantasy of change.
    By David Horowitz October 25, 1999

  • No light in his attic

    For the tragic impact a "progressive," PC education has on minority students of great promise, look at the sad case of Harvard's Cornel West.
    By David Horowitz October 11, 1999

  • The myth weavers

    Three leading leftist figures have been exposed this year as having lied about their backgrounds. Has the failure of their ideology forced them to fictionalize?
    By David Horowitz September 27, 1999

  • Give war a chance

    American leftists could learn something from their European counterparts -- war is the only way to stop Milosevic.
    By Ian Williams May 14, 1999

  • The Politics Of Bad Faith

    David Weir reviews 'The Politics of Bad Faith' by David Horowitz
    By David Weir February 16, 1999

  • The party's over

    A LEFTIST INTELLECTUAL TRIES TO RESURRECT SOCIALISM AS A MOVEMENT OF "HOPE." HE FAILS.
    By David Horowitz May 4, 1998

  • Newsreal: Shooting yourself in the foot

    The fund-raising scandal surrounding the re-election campaign of Teamster leader Ron Carey provides a huge boost to Republicans and anti-union causes everywhere.
    By David Corn October 8, 1997

  • A Smack of Weimar

    A low-intensity war is taking place in parts of Europe, with terrorist activities and open battles on the streets between neo-Nazis and their increasingly militant opponents.
    By A. Clay Thompson October 6, 1997
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