January 2013

The Walmart Revolt

The New Year promises new strategies for old labor.

Protest Tactics in a Warming World

What will it take to push back climate change?

Executioner-in-Chief

Obama's drone attacks and the pathology of presidential power.

The War on Trafficking

Will California's crackdown do more harm than good?

Corporate Death Star

Help fight the secretive, corporate-sponsored Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Chiquita Republic

United Fruit's heir has again been linked to paramilitary abuses in Colombia.

Solidarity After Sandy

Occupy steps up where traditional disaster relief fails.

Supermax Showdown

AFSCME wants Illinois' Tamms Correctional Center to stay open. Activists want it closed.

Enemy of Rupert

An interview with independent media's white knight, Craig Aaron

Truce or Dare in Colombia

Violence rages even as peace talks continue.

books

Catastrophiliacs

For some, the end of the world can't come too soon.

Exit Signs

Blinded by Thrift Store Irony

It makes very little sense to characterize irony, strictly speaking, as a matter of self-presentation.

film

Twilight of the Twi-Hards

The triumph of Team Katniss.

From the Old Country

Scroungers and Strivers

We are encouraged to sneer at poverty and hardship.

Culture

In Defense of Sports

Why let capitalists have all the fun?

Views

Who’s Afraid of Homophobia?

The Associated Press's decision to favor 'anti-gay' over 'homophobic' isn't as bad as some say.

The First Stone

Gold Diggers and Indians

Republicans want to have their way with Wisconsin's buried gold, but the Anishinaabe aren't having it.