magazine july 2008

Death Squads in Oaxaca

The Mexican government ignores the assassination of two community radio activists

By John Gibler    activism assassination

The Divided States of America

After the first-ever televised presidential debate between Vice President Richard Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy in 1960, a… more

By Bradford Plumer    books nixon

Dismantling the Myth of McCain

How the Republican senator's maverick image is a sham

By David Moberg    elections media politics

Anthropologists At War

New military program that embeds anthropologists with soldiers has academics up in arms

By Bill Stamets    anthropology war and peace war in iraq

The Ambiguous Legacy of ‘68

Forty years ago, what was revolutionized -- the world or capitalism?

By Slavoj Zizek    1960s economy

Canaries in the Uranium Mine

Navajos gear up for renewed legal battle to protect their life and land

By Kari Lydersen   

The Price of One Iraqi Life

U.S. military tries to pacify grieving Iraqis with condolence payments

By James Foley   

Freedom of the Press Moguls

The Newseum, the latest addition to Washington's sprawling, preening, self-singing monument-memorial complex, may boast a constitutional amendment engraved on… more

By Chris Lehmann   

The Free Trade Heretic

Ha-Joon Chang is an award-winning Cambridge economist whose new book, Bad Samaritans, explodes what its subtitle calls "the myth… more

By David Sirota   

The Right's New Attack on Voters

Last April, as a national debate raged over whether Indiana's voter ID law protects election integrity or disenfranchises low-income… more

ICE Cold to Kids

At 10 a.m. on May 12, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents descended on a meat processing plant in… more

A Textbook Case

AP students learn ABCs of right-wing talking points

Hard Times for Student Borrowers

Kelly Lynch, a former Columbia College Chicago film and video major, is paying educational loan lender Sallie Mae $600… more

Re-thinking Soup for the Soul

Re-thinking Soup, a project of Chicago's Jane Addams Hull House Museum, serves up bowls of soup to bring together… more

P.O.V.: A Home For Homeless Films

P.O.V. is one of those occasional reminders that public broadcasting matters. Every year, like its complementary series Independent Lens,… more

By Pat Aufderheide   

Our Imperfect Unions

Pick almost any metric -- fraction of workers in unions, lag of pay behind productivity increases, growing hours of… more

Damned If Feminine, Damned If Feminist

Women are held up simultaneously to feminist and feminine standards, and must fulfill both, but with a bias (still) toward the feminine.

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On AIDS, Wright Is Wrong

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color," the Rev. Jeremiah Wright said in… more

Israel's Openly Secret Nukes

A former president (who in 1978 helped forge peace between Israel and Egypt) is being charged as an anti-Semite -- and a traitor, to boot.

The Great Election Robbery of 2008?

While the guardians of the establishment crow that American Democracy is a shining beacon for the world, our elections are corrupted.

Bush's Selective Mourning

Young Americans are sent off to war and are killed by roadside bombs. Young Americans return home from war and kill themselves. Whatever