Opinions, Editorials & Opposing Viewpoints

Covering American and international news for an online, global audience.

Historical issues available via microfilm and newer issues available online.

Founded in 1955, the Village Voice introduced free-form, high-spirited, and passionate journalism into the public discourse. As the nation’s first alternative newsweekly, the Voice today carries on the same tradition of no-holds-barred reporting and criticism it embraced when it began publishing 60 years ago.

The Washington Post is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most-widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area, and has a large national audience.

A monthly political journal of liberal thought. Contains articles that generate debate, further ideas, and set agendas; and provides a forum for working through the controversies and hard choices facing all Americans. Includes regular topics and features. Directed toward leaders, academic audiences, and citizens with an interest in public policy.

A monthly magazine that provides insight and commentary on a wide range of subjects, including but not limited to social and political issues. The magazine is noted for publishing articles by well-known and highly regarded authors. Subject coverage encompasses foreign affairs, politics and society, fiction and poetry, visual and performing arts, and travel.

Presents incisive commentary on our media-driven world and features interviews with women in all areas of pop culture.

An independent journal of opinion that is edited and managed by lay Catholics. Addresses a broad range of subjects, including national and international politics; social and ethical issues such as abortion, the death penalty, euthanasia; and science and religion, from a viewpoint that is primarily but not exclusively liberal and reformist. Content includes editorials, columns, essays, poetry, cartoons, and reviews of books, movies, plays, and the media.

A quarterly publication of politics and culture which ranks among the handful of political journals read most regularly by U.S. intellectuals. A magazine of the left, Dissent is also a magazine of independent minds welcoming the clash of strong opinions. Each issue features reflective articles about politics in the U.S., incisive social and cultural commentary, plus the most sophisticated coverage of European politics you'll find anywhere outside of Europe.

A scholarly journal publishing social and ethical content aimed at educating the public from a secular viewpoint. Articles usually focus on social issues, such as the environment, civil liberties, human rights, and international relations. Philosophical, religious, scientific, and other contemporary concerns are also examined.

Dedicated to advancing democracy and economic justice, informing movements for a more humane world, and providing an accessible forum for debate about the policies that shape our future.

An international monthly magazine devoted to promoting socialism and activism and fighting capitalism and imperialism. Readers include workers, labor organizers, activists, and academics.

A magazine that presents political commentary and investigative articles with an emphasis on social change. Includes environmental coverage, photojournalism, arts coverage. Presents features on persons who advocate for social change.

Provides views on religious, social and moral issues. Serves as a platform for discussions of church, society and global community. Although a large amount of its reporting deals with issues of the Catholic Church, an equal amount of its coverage includes the religious, political and social forces shaping public policies and institutions.

Provides news pertaining to contemporary women's issues, and information on the organization's advocacy work.

Literature, culture, news, opinion; general and consumer interests.

The New Republic was founded in 1914 as a journal of opinion which seeks to meet the challenge of a new time. For over 100 years, we have championed progressive ideas and challenged popular opinion.

Reviews and essays on literature, art, politics, economics, education, science, foreign affairs & psychology.

A weekly magazine offering a signature mix of reporting and commentary on politics, international affairs, popular culture and the arts, science and technology, and business, along with fiction, poetry, humor, and cartoons.

Formerly Amicus Journal (1988-2001)
A journal devoted to the protection of the eart.'s people, plants, and animals, and the natural systems on which life depends. Presents news on environmental legislation, essays, and a poetry section. This is the official magazine of the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

A journal of opinion and leading voice for peace and social justice in America. Champions peace, social and economic justice, civil rights and civil liberties, human rights, a preserved environment, and a reinvigorated democracy. Its bedrock values remain nonviolence and freedom of speech.

Covers theological, social, cultural and political topics, and provides resources for spiritual discussion, study and renewal.

An academic publication presenting a liberal alternative to Jewish conservatism. Features a compilation of articles, poetry, fiction, and discussion of concerns in contemporary Jewish society. Contains special supplements for religious holidays.

An independent monthly magazine devoted to politics, government, culture, and the media in America, from a progressive perspective. Publishes investigative and opinion-based feature articles by notable authors, short news items, humorous sidebars, and book reviews of recent titles on politics and culture, as well as occasional excerpts from forthcoming political books.

Examines the connections between human economies and the health of the natural environment by monitoring global changes in climate, forest cover, population, poverty, water resources, biological diversity and other major trends.

Physical copies available in the library.