Tag: democracy

We Call This Progress
December 2012From a speech at the Earth at Risk conference, Roy on the misuses of democracy and the revolutionary power of exclusion.

Tana Wojczuk: Mitt Romney as Shakespeare’s Coriolanus
November 2012In the aftermath of Sandy, it’s time to reevaluate what it means to be dependent on government.

Tom Engelhardt: Democratic Mockpocalypse
October 2012This year’s presidential campaign is bigger and louder than anything we’ve ever seen before.

Women in Power and Politics
September 2012Sonia Gandhi and Aung San Suu Kyi have overcome tragic and arduous pasts to emerge as leaders of India and Burma. What’s next for these two historical icons?

Robert Reich: The Perfect Storm for Selling American Democracy
July 2012Our democracy is for sale. And people are buying.

The Lioness of Iran
October 2011Iran’s most prominent poet, a two-time Nobel nominee, on the greatest epic in history, the nightmare of censorship, and why her country will eventually achieve democracy.


