James Ridgeway

NEWS & POLITICS ARCHIVES

Anarchy in the U.S.A. – The GOP Plays a Dangerous Game With Its Far-Right Fringe

“Ever since Newt Gingrich turned self-hate into a campaign manifesto last November, the GOP has been conducting a risky affair with the far right”

by James Ridgeway

Originally published: August 8, 1995

THE FRONT ARCHIVES

Beautiful Butchers: The Shah Serves Up Caviar and Torture

“The social success of the Shah in the galaxy of international despots is the end result of a careful campaign, premised on two vital ingredients: snobbery and cash”

by Alexander Cockburn, James Ridgeway and Jan Albert

Originally published: November 14, 1977

NEWS & POLITICS ARCHIVES

Sanctifying the Evangelical Vote

Can the Christian Right organize evangelicals and assure the Republican Party majority status?

by James Ridgeway

Originally published: June 17, 1986

EXTREMISM ARCHIVES

Armies of the Right

“The struggle between the Aryan resistance movement and the government has intensified since the Oklahoma City bombing, with one cell after another coming to the surface”

by James Ridgeway

Originally published: March 25, 1997

NEWS & POLITICS ARCHIVES

Iran-Contra: What Do We Know, and When Did We Know It?

“The release last week of the report of the independent counsel marks a frustrating anticlimax to what clearly is a continuing crisis of American government”

by James Ridgeway

Originally published: February 1, 1994

THE FRONT ARCHIVES

Showtime 1984: Inside the Political Theater

“Geraldine Ferraro's nomination opens a new era of feminist politics, for the first time placing the genuinely radical perspectives of the feminist movement in a far broader national arena”

by James Ridgeway

August 13, 2020

NEW YORK CITY ARCHIVES

Jerry Ford’s America: The Chicken Has Lost Its Head

“In a rational world there could indeed be a recovery, but it is plain that the country is not under rational control. Its leaders are unable to focus on reality and drift along on illusions.”

by Alexander Cockburn and James Ridgeway

Originally published: November 10, 1975

NEWS & POLITICS ARCHIVES

Republican Nation: The War on Washington

Curb the Regulators, Shut Down Congress, Humiliate the President: This Is the Real Republican Contract

by James Ridgeway

Originally published: January 10, 1995

Security

Annals of the Age of Reagan: Missile Mess in Europe

“The Reagan administration, rabid on the topic of the Russian threat, has escalated bellicose rhetoric to a level which quite simply terrifies people.”

by Alexander Cockburn, James Ridgeway & Andrew Cockburn

Originally published: November 11, 1981

Protest Archives

Beyond the Tiananmen Massacre

June 13, 1989: “This is your time to do something for China. If you don’t stand up now, you may never stand up for anything else in your life.”

by The Voice Archives

August 21, 2019

“Ever since Newt Gingrich turned self-hate into a campaign manifesto last November, the GOP has been conducting a risky affair with the far right”

“The social success of the Shah in the galaxy of international despots is the end result of a careful campaign, premised on two vital ingredients: snobbery and cash”

Can the Christian Right organize evangelicals and assure the Republican Party majority status?

“The struggle between the Aryan resistance movement and the government has intensified since the Oklahoma City bombing, with one cell after another coming to the surface”

“The release last week of the report of the independent counsel marks a frustrat­ing anticlimax to what clearly is a continuing crisis of American gov­ernment”

“Geraldine Ferraro's nomination opens a new era of feminist politics, for the first time placing the genuinely radical perspec­tives of the feminist movement in a far broader national arena”

“In a rational world there could indeed be a recovery, but it is plain that the country is not under rational control. Its leaders are unable to focus on reality and drift along on illusions.”

Curb the Regulators, Shut Down Congress, Humiliate the President: This Is the Real Republican Contract

“The Reagan administration, rabid on the topic of the Russian threat, has escalated bellicose rhetoric to a level which quite simply terrifies people.”

June 13, 1989: “This is your time to do something for China. If you don’t stand up now, you may never stand up for any­thing else in your life.”

“The release last week of the report of the independent counsel marks a frustrating anticlimax to what clearly is a continuing crisis of American government”

“Geraldine Ferraro's nomination opens a new era of feminist politics, for the first time placing the genuinely radical perspectives of the feminist movement in a far broader national arena”

June 13, 1989: “This is your time to do something for China. If you don’t stand up now, you may never stand up for anything else in your life.”