magazine June 2009

The Only Road Out of Crisis

Yes, it is socialism, but nationalize the banks already.

By Joseph M. Schwartz    corporations economy obama

Battling Over Employee Free Choice

The fate of labor’s top legislative priority is in the Senate’s hands.

By David Moberg    labor politics

Teabags vs. Douchebags

Why this may not be the second coming of the New Deal after all.

By David Sirota    activism

Defense Budget Shell Game

Behind the hoopla, military spending continues to rise.

By Frida Berrigan    economy military military

Skewed Debate

Strange bedfellows oppose single-payer healthcare reform.

By Roger Bybee   

Unraveling Afghanistan

A veteran correspondent details what's going wrong, and why.

By George Kenney   

Shilling on the Corporate Dollar

Business-sponsored ‘scholars’ deliver anti-union talking points.

By Art Levine   

Reinventing Demons

The Obama administration plans a new round of 'public safety' programs in Latin America.

Israel’s Center Does Not Hold

Netanyahu's coalition begins to govern, as the world awaits a two-state solution.

Xe is the Problem

Keeping the corporation formerly known as Blackwater out of Skunk Hollow.

The Aspiration of Global Zero

President Obama seeks a world without nuclear weapons, but there are signs a key treaty is unraveling.

Culture

At the End of the Day, It's the End of the World

Understanding the cliché of the new millennium.

By Emily Bauman   

theater

Drama Queens

A new anthology fills a void by collecting political plays written by American women.

By Jean Forst   

books

Coal Mountain Elementary

Big Coal has worked its way into the classroom.

By Kari Lydersen   

film

Home Again?

A Forgotten Injustice chronicles the mass deportation of Mexican immigrants in the 1930s.

By Lou Mattei   

Editorial

A Specter is Haunting Dems

'Post-partisan politics' is code for a politics that basks in the glow of the status quo – a politics that accommodates itself to the needs of corporate America.

Back Talk

Antidote to Drug War Madness

If Republicans followed the lead of Buckley, Beck and Paul, this extravagant waste of human and financial resources could end.

Views

Jacob Zuma: Sub-Saharan Populist

Will Jacob Zuma emulate the good governance of Lula of Brazil, or will he follow the path of Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s popular autocrat?