Can We Afford Another Republican Congress?

In this print edition...

• Come Together: A United Strategy for Election 2006, by Joelle Fishman
• Provoking Thought: Red Nobel Prize Winner Talks with PA
• Sanctified or Sanctimonious: Hypocrisy and the Anti-Choice Movement, by Anna Bates
• Savage Subsidies, by Michael Hogan
• Understanding Racism Today: An Interview with David Roediger
• Current Letters (updated 3-28-06)
• Current Poetry

As the light of day exposes their ugly corruption and decay, the Bush far-right cabal is moving even more strenuously and quietly to establish the structures that can be used to carry on their corporate agenda no matter who wins the election.

José Saramago was born in Portugal in 1922. He is the author of 10 books, including The Double, The Cave, Blindness, and All the Names. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.

Defenders of women’s rights to reproductive health care options have long been aware of the far right’s opposition to women’s reproductive freedom.

Few Americans are aware of the incredible resentment caused by the US policy of subsidizing agricultural products which are dumped on the international market.

I think the big advantage we have now in scholarship on race in the last several decades is that we get to start from the fact that it’s a biological fiction.