AltWeeklies Wire
Health Care Debate Suggests the U.S. Suffers from Delusions of Invincibilitynew
When it comes to health care reform, the U.S. reminds me of a relative I had who suffered paranoid delusions, likely due to brain tumours. Trying to help her led to accusations that I was trying to harm her.
NOW Magazine |
Jacob Scheier |
09-21-2009 |
Commentary
Chicago Dispatch: Obama's Indie Uprisingnew
As I stood in Grant Park with hundreds of thousands of fervent Obama supporters, it was hard not to wonder if all the rhetoric might be true. Was I, a Canadian interloper in Obama-land, about to witness the birth of a new America? Was a younger, more vital force taking over the country?
NOW Magazine |
Ben Spurr |
11-10-2008 |
Commentary
Election '08: Backwards Bizarro Landnew
Welcome to Bizarro World, where the single-mother-raised working-class black guy is decried as an "elitist," while the lock-step well-branded military man is a "maverick."
NOW Magazine |
Robert Priest |
11-03-2008 |
Commentary
As Canadian Progressives, Can We Save Ourselves from Our Party Leaders?new
Welcome to our new progressive reality -- the leaderless election. In fact, if we look to leadership at all, we are doomed to another Harper government -- not just here in Canada but also on the world stage.
NOW Magazine |
Alice Klein |
09-15-2008 |
Commentary
Why I'm Pained by Palinnew
The gun-toting right-wing mama isn't exactly what we feminists had in mind.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
09-08-2008 |
Commentary
Why Was Obama's Wailing Wall Display Treated as Sacred?new
What bothers me is how we understand prayer in this culture and how that understanding enables a presidential candidate to use prayer as a political tool, as both symbol and action, when it is neither.
NOW Magazine |
Jacob Scheier |
08-04-2008 |
Commentary
Obama's Afghan Shufflenew
Pushing "right war" is Dem's counterpunch to "success" of Bush's troop surge.
NOW Magazine |
Gwynne Dyer |
07-28-2008 |
Commentary
Is John McCain Hoping for a Terror Threat?new
Nobody said that John McCain was hoping for a terrorist attack on the United States, but that is the implicit accusation he is denying when he talks about "working tirelessly" to prevent an attack. And that superficial and pathetic exchange of views is probably the closest that the United States is going to come to a genuine debate on security issues during this entire election campaign.
NOW Magazine |
Gwynne Dyer |
07-07-2008 |
Commentary
No Chivalry for Hillarynew
Clinton dumps feminism for suburban version of old hillbilly race-baiting.
NOW Magazine |
George Elliott Clarke |
05-27-2008 |
Commentary
Obama is in Osama's Handsnew
The Republicans are toast if Bush's al-Qaeda enemies don't spark up more homeland terror.
NOW Magazine |
Gwynne Dyer |
03-03-2008 |
Commentary
Is He White Enough to Win?new
How will the race card play in the high-stakes presidential poker game now doubling down, when hidden decisions taken in darkness centre on the real possibility of a real “first black president”?
NOW Magazine |
Rory O'Connor |
01-31-2008 |
Commentary
Obama's Iraq Gapnew
Dems rush rhetoric about ending the war, but the bleeding continues.
NOW Magazine |
Tom Hayden |
01-18-2008 |
Commentary
Why the Obama Love-Fest?new
He's for hope -- but exactly what does that translate into? But beyond that, the fact is a "fresh face" -- one of the more overused descriptors applied to Obama -- is actually quite useless when it comes to American power politics.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
01-11-2008 |
Commentary
Let's Pull it Togethernew
A center-left-green pact is the only way we can rid the world of Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper.
NOW Magazine |
Alice Klein |
12-21-2007 |
Commentary
Let's Ban the Biblenew
Recently the Catholic School Board in Halton Region pulled The Golden Compass, a children's novel by Philip Pullman, from the shelves. Supposedly not because of anything in it, but because the man who wrote it is an avowed and proud atheist.
NOW Magazine |
Drew Hayden Taylor |
11-30-2007 |
Commentary
