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On WikiLeaks and Government Secrecy

On WikiLeaks and Government Secrecy

Reflecting on the controversy over the publication of classified cables, a former Foreign Service officer calls for a more open diplomacy.

Posted December 3, 2010

Immigrant Activists Regroup

Immigrant Activists Regroup

Over the past decade, the immigrants' rights movement has become a strong grassroots force. Now it's time to develop a unified legislative strategy that can shape the national debate.

Posted December 2, 2010

Don't Let Deficit Panel Co-Chairs Hype a Bad Plan, Embrace the Progressive Alternative That Saves Social Security

Don't Let Deficit Panel Co-Chairs Hype a Bad Plan, Embrace the Progressive Alternative That Saves Social Security

The president's commission did not get the support needed to force Congressional votes on a proposal to cut Social Security and Medicare. Now is the time for progressives to push Jan Schakowsy's smart alternative.

Posted December 3, 2010

Books and the Arts

Vasily Grossman's Everything Flows is a searching and humane investigation of the totalitarian condition.

Patrick Leigh Fermor's fifty-year correspondence with Deborah Devonshire reads like an accidental memoir of a disappearing world.

The King's Speech, The Illusionist, Black Swan

News and Analysis

The WikiLeaks revelations of Silvio Berlusconi’s bromance with Vladimir Putin have raised new questions about whether their close ties stem from “personal investments.” But the growing popular protests in Italy, echoing those in Britain, France and Greece, are primarily against savage austerity measures that have favored the wealthy.

Christian evangelicals are donating saplings to make the Israeli desert bloom—but they're doing it on land now being seized from Bedouins.

Glenn Beck is only the latest of the deranged people, movements and governments that, inevitably, find their way to anti-Semitism.

For too long, unions have mistaken access for power. They need to get back to organizing and activating members.

Adoption has become a form of trafficking in and of itself.

Poll

By publishing 251,287 leaked US diplomatic cables, do you think WikiLeaks is...
acting irresponsibly, putting people's lives in danger
19%
performing an important public service and drawing attention to underreported issues
63%
distracting policymakers and the media, and derailing the national conversation over critical issues in unproductive ways
19%
Total votes: 635

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