magazine February 2008

Mr./Ms. Change Goes to Washington

Candidates promises break from Bush, but how far will they go?

By David Moberg    elections

Tupperware and Tasers

The SUV-driving, stun-gun-wielding housewife is coming to a suburb near you. In Arizona, Tupperware-style Taser parties have become all… more

By Silja J.A. Talvi   

Guatemala's "Crime of the Century"

Boston-born author Francisco Goldman's American-Jewish and Guatemalan heritage has allowed him to move between those cultures and explore the… more

By Jacob Wheeler   

Extraordinary Rendition on Trial

ACLU tries to ground the Boeing subsidiary that trafficked in torture

By Christopher Moraff   

In Search of Lumumba

Congo's landscape of forgetting

By Christian Parenti   

Women Behind Bars

War on drugs leads to explosion of female incarcerations

By Silja J.A. Talvi   

Where is the Dream?

From antiwar activism to economic justice, black progressives face challenges in organizing

By James Thindwa   

The Next President's Iran Dilemma

Why undoing Bush's foreign policy won't be easy

By Chris Toensing   

First Came Katrina, Then Came HUD

Activists battle to save New Orleans public housing

By Lewis Wallace    housing natural disasters new orleans

Day Laborers Sue Chicago

On Dec. 5, two day laborers, in conjunction with the workers' rights group Chicago Committee for the Right to… more

Selling Out Grandma

In late 2007, the investment firm The Carlyle Group purchased one of the country's largest nursing home chains despite… more

Labor Hits Jackpot

Indian casino unionizes in Connecticut despite tribal claims of sovereignty

N.J. Closes Death Row

It's official. Before 2007 came to a close, New Jersey became the first state in the United States in… more

Outsourcing Zionism

For less than $4 an hour, several Jewish teenagers removed furniture, clothes, kitchenware and toys from homes and loaded… more

Counterinsurgency in Chiapas

Around 3 p.m. on Jan. 2, nine shots were fired into the air. The perpetrators withdrew, leaving behind a… more

Latin America Banks on Independence

The new Bank of the South shatters neoliberal economics

Save the Dramatic Chipmunk

When college kids make mashups of Hollywood movies, do they violate the law? Not necessarily, according to a study… more

By Pat Aufderheide    technology

books

Remembering Mazzocchi

A streetwise high school dropout, a fierce protagonist of workers against corporate power and a down-to-earth visionary, Tony Mazzocchi… more

books

Portrait of the Awkward Artist

If Pablo Helguera's The Boy Inside the Letter (Jorge Pinto Books, 2007) had adopted a subtitle, it would have… more

By Achy Obejas    art books mexico

Droppin' a Dime

Fat Kids, Fat Profits

Corporations are urging us to drink Coke in the morning and down a KFC Extra Crispy for lunch. It adds up to exploding obesity rates.

Nas: Whose Word Is This?

Those who advocate burying the word 'nigger' have concluded that it is indelibly tainted by its racist pedigree. But no taint is indelible.

The Jamie Lynn Effect

In a culture that is prudish and pornographic, girls are supposed to turn themselves into enticing little pop tarts who then 'just say no.'

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Nanotech: Tiny Particles, Big Risks

Nanotechnology, one of the fastest growing industries in history, is a major threat to human health and the environment. Or not. The fact… more

Musharraf's False Dichotomy

Pakistan's Musharraf has successfully sold to the American public the idea that one has to choose between his dictatorship or that of the jihadis.

Pollsters and Puppets

In… more