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Bike-Sharing Is Caring

Bike-sharing programs that provide cheap access to inner-city bicycles are popular all over Europe, and Beijing, and even American cities are catching on

Adam Doster

So Long To A Giant

Jarrett

Dispatch

Acid-Mining Michigan

Rio Tinto subsidiary Kennecott plans to develop a nickel sulfide mine beneath the fragile Salmon Trout River in the state's Upper Peninsula

Chuck Glossenger

Third Shock’s The Charm

Jarrett

Culture

Bad Cop, Badder Cop in Brazil

Does the new shoot-'em-up film Tropa de Elite bring out the country's inner fascist?

Holmes Wilson

Viewpoint

Warning: Drug Ads Can Make You Sick

A $4.2 billion annual drug industry incessantly reinforces the medicalization of complaints through direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising

Terry J. Allen

Viewpoint

No Talking to the Enemy

Both the U.S. and Iranian governments have been stopped dialogues between citizens seeking peaceful resolution

Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium

Feature

Why Is Yazan Sawalha in Prison?

Israel has detained the son of a prominent Palestinian peace activist, and refuses to say why.

Megan Tady

The First Rule About Campus Conservatives…

Brian Cook

Culture

Rocking Lolita in Tehran

Iran's underground music scene has more followers than ever, largely because Iranian musicians are performing on a new stage: the Internet

Colin Meyn

Viewpoint

Beware the Credit-Industrial Complex

Barely regulated banks are getting away with one usurious practice after the next: not only the subprime fiasco, but the extortionate service fees on your bank accounts and the escalating interest fees, late fees and truncated payment cycles on your credit cards

Susan J. Douglas

I Can Has Book Deal?

Brian Cook

Dispatch

No New Year Resolutions?

SEC proposes curbing shareholder power

Kari Lydersen

Viewpoint

The End of Impunity?

The Senate Judiciary Committee is trying to revive efforts to hold the Bush administration accountable

Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium

Feature

Corporate Potluck

Dietitians and their company sponsors make strange buffet fellows

Jacob Wheeler

Viewpoint

Come on Cosby, Stop Hatin’

Cosby makes blanket indictments of an entire class of black people and offers only exhortations from the sidelines

Salim Muwakkil

Feature

Kiriakou and the Kite Runner

The CIA agent who just admitted to waterboarding a high-ranking al Qaeda operative has had an interesting retirement.

Lindsay Beyerstein

Conflict of interest?

Adam Doster