December 2007 Volume 31, Issue 12

December 2007

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Viewpoint

Third Time’s the Charm? H. Candace Gorman

U.S. Lobbyists Assault E.U. Regs Terry J. Allen

Harold Washington Remembered Salim Muwakkil

Tax and Spend? Hell, Yeah! Susan J. Douglas

Come on People! Bill Cosby is Right Laura S. Washington

Treaty of Detroit Repealed David Moberg

Feature

The Democrats’ Path to Victory David Moberg

Supreme Court Inc. Stephen J. Fortunato Jr.

China’s Valley of Tears Slavoj Žižek

Dark Side of Russias Rainbow Emily Udell

Hounding the Bush Dogs Adam Doster

iPower to the People Jessica Clark

Kids LOL @ Navy Recruiters Aaron Sarver

Wingnut Awareness Week Adam Doster

Funding Iraqs Citizen Soldiers Jessica Pupovac

The New Road to Serfdom Christopher Hayes

Dispatch

Public Libraries For Profit Akito Yoshikane

Air Polluters Sail the High Seas Michelle Chen

Saving a Public Park Paul Street

El Salvadors Patriot Act Jacob Wheeler

Culture

R.I.P. LiP Erin Polgreen

Prairie Style Romance Achy Obejas

The Democrats’ Path to Victory

The public demand for progressive politics is growing stronger

David Moberg

Supreme Court Inc.

The Roberts Court unravels a generation of progress

Stephen J. Fortunato Jr.

China’s Valley of Tears

Is authoritarian capitalism the future?

Slavoj Žižek

Dark Side of Russias Rainbow

Despite political, legal and religious pressures, Nikolai Alexeyev has worked to combat prejudice and secure legal and political protections for Russia's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community

Emily Udell

Hounding the Bush Dogs

Meet the candidates who are taking on conservative Democrats

Adam Doster

iPower to the People

The perils and promise of point-and-click politics

Jessica Clark

Kids LOL @ Navy Recruiters

Millennials, explained Arthur Mitchell, director of strategic planning for the Navy's Accelerate Your Life campaign, are "narcissistic praise junkies" and "a somewhat alien life force"

Aaron Sarver

Wingnut Awareness Week

Neocons beat the war drum on college campuses

Adam Doster

Funding Iraqs Citizen Soldiers

Is the Pentagon's neighborhood watch strategy protecting Iraqis or stoking the civil war?

Jessica Pupovac

The New Road to Serfdom

Over the course of 500 pages in The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein documents the moments of chaos and disruption that allow a small coterie of experts to swoop in and administer what's invariably called "bitter medicine," "painful reforms" or "shock therapy"

Christopher Hayes

Third Time’s the Charm?

The military didn't even bother to retain most of the documents from the Combatant Status Review Tribunals conducted in 2004, so the government has no documents showing any reason for holding these men

H. Candace Gorman

U.S. Lobbyists Assault E.U. Regs

Why is the United States, which practically invented consumer protection, now lagging behind the E.U., and in some cases, trailing Japan, China and Mexico?

Public Libraries For Profit

The trend of farming out public libraries to a private, profit-oriented business has raised concerns because libraries have long been considered democratic bodies built on the cornerstone of information diversity, transparency and intellectual freedom

Akito Yoshikane

Harold Washington Remembered

Washington's candidacy forged political unity among Chicago's notoriously fractious black community and helped bring the city's feuding Latino groups (including Mexicans and Puerto Ricans) together

Air Polluters Sail the High Seas

The environmental law firm EarthJustice, Friends of the Earth and other advocacy groups are taking action to compel the EPA to set comprehensive restrictions on the air pollution that clouds U.S. harbors

Amidst the demise of Clamor, Punk Planet, Satya and LiP, Tipping the Sacred Cow: The Best of LiP reads like a super-special edition--complete with illustrations, a "theft ethics" quiz, a glossary of culture-jamming lingo and other useful appendices

Tax and Spend? Hell, Yeah!

Why does anyone need $50 million a year? What do you do with it--buy five houses in Aspen like Enron's Ken Lay did?

Susan J. Douglas

Saving a Public Park

Benton Harbor citizens fight to stop Whirlpool's luxury golf course

Come on People! Bill Cosby is Right

Cosby's critics excoriated him for delivering his rant from an elitist ivory tower without offering solutions, arguing that the black poor are the helpless victims of white supremacy and institutional racism

Laura S. Washington

Treaty of Detroit Repealed

The new contracts demonstrate that companies without unions, global labor markets and corporate power are dictating the future for American autoworkers--even for those who are in a union

Prairie Style Romance

Though Nancy Horan takes great liberty in imagining intimate scenes between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick Cheney--of which there is no evidence--Loving Frank ultimately rests on historical record

El Salvadors Patriot Act

Last year the government adopted a "Special Law Against Acts of Terrorism," which gives police and judges leeway to clear the streets of demonstrators and imposes mandatory sentences of 60 years for what was once considered a freedom of expression

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