Inside ITT

Feature

Merc is the New Crack

America's deadly dependence on private security contractors in Iraq

Lindsay Beyerstein

Buy ‘Em Up One Justice At A Time

Jarrett

Hedges Takes On Saint Clinton

Jarrett

Flickr Faux Pas

Erin Polgreen

Viewpoint

Inside the Secret Facility

In an Orwellian twist, the U.S. government monitors all correspondence between a Guantánamo attorney and her client

H. Candace Gorman

Feature

Tobacco Stains

The global footprint of a deadly crop

Bryan Farrell

Get Everybody Out By Midnight

Jarrett

Feature

Floating Utopias

On the degraded imagination of the libertarian seasteaders.

China Mieville

Viewpoint

Running, With Scissors

The Republican drive to cut off voters is the sleeper issue of 2008

Hans Johnson

“Anger and passion slipped inside a fun cartoon coating.”

Erin Polgreen

Feature

An Unholy Alliance

Across the Deep South, religion, culture and politics collide to make 'abortion' a dirty word.

Carrie Kilman

Dispatch

Funding Indonesia’s Abusive Military

Despite numerous human rights abuses, the United States continues to pump money into the Indonesian military under the guise of the war on terror

Ben Terrall

Ways to Fight Unionbusting

Erin Polgreen

America: “A Pants-Piddling Mess”

Brian Cook

Culture

Can Brazil’s Quilombos Survive?

Quilombo Country documentary reveals the modern-day challenges faced by Brazil's runaway slave communities

Anne Kogan

Viewpoint

Let’s Pry Open Those Cold, Dead Hands

To defeat the gun lobby, gun-control activists need to get out of late-night local cable and embrace the Internet

Laura S. Washington

Akbar Ganji’s Open Letter

Brian Cook

Feature

Unionbusting Confidential

To keep out organized labor, you need the union-busting law firm Jackson Lewis

Art Levine