magazine September 2008

Your Flat Screen Has (Greenhouse) Gas

Vegging out in front of your flat-panel TV may pose more danger than turning your brain to mush.… more

By Emily Udell   

Greens Not Turning Blue

Farheen Hakeem knew she was doing something right when local Democrats came calling. In 2006, on the heels… more

By Mark Berlin   

Why Soldiers Rape

Culture of misogyny, illegal occupation, fuel sexual violence in military

By Helen Benedict   

Bulldozed in Bethlehem

WEST BANK -- The Salim family lives in a rural area with steep hills and long views --… more

By Melinda Tuhus   

Feeding the Beast

In order to weaken federal agencies, the Bush administration has expanded them to the point of collapse

By Christopher Moraff   

No Refuge from Iraq in Canada

Conscientious objectors from the U.S. military who are seeking refuge in Canada are rightly confused about the rules… more

By Peter Kavanagh    canada iraq war refugees

No JROTC Left Behind

Are military schools recruitment pools?

By Allen McDuffee   

Talking About Guns, Fighting About Race

In June, the Supreme Court explicitly affirmed the individual's right to bear arms. The ruling -- District of… more

By Kristian Williams and Peter Little   

Striking on the Shoulders of Giants

Injustice persists at copper mine that sparked Mexican Revolution

By Kari Lydersen and Jessica Pupovac   

A People’s Historian of Sports

It's easy to see sports today as nothing more than an escapist distraction, an uncomfortable marriage of commercialism… more

By Pete Redington    books social justice sports

Dereliction of Duty

McCain's record on veterans' issues is shocking and awful

By Cliff Schecter    healthcare mccain veterans

Jumping Ship

Citing social issues, local GOP officials are abandoning their party in droves

By Hans Johnson   

books

Unholy Allies

In March 2007, Al Gore triumphantly returned to the Senate to testify before the Environmental Committee about the… more

books

The Mess is the Message

Since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast in 2005, the president's approval rating has hovered around a paltry… more

By Adam Doster   

movies

As Tough As Tom Joad

I can't quite follow the offscreen sound bites preceding the main title of Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's… more

By Jonathan Rosenbaum    documentary hurricane katrina movies

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Class Not Dismissed

New York isn't the only city that never sleeps. Across America, many educators spend restless nights wondering how… more

By Jean Forst    books education urban schools

Getting Messy With Jesse Helps Obama

Jackson understands his perverse value in this nation's political calculus: what displeases him pleases much of white America.

Keep the Heat on Obama

The senator from Illinois has an understanding of how politics works that escapes his slavish supporters and jaded critics.

Our Toppling House of Cards

Deregulation -- and the shadow banking system it created -- shredded the financial safety net that the Great Depression had produced.

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Change We Can Reasonably Assess

'I'm asking you to believe,' reads the headline on Obama's website. And that is the beginning of the problem.

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The Audacity of Rhetoric

Measured by the low standards of conventional wisdom, the old saying 'Don't just talk, do something!' is one of the most stupid things one can say.