August 2010 Volume 34, Issue 08

August 2010

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Viewpoint

U.S. Nuclear Plants: Old and Incontinent Terry J. Allen

The End of Men, or the End of Reason? Susan J. Douglas

In an Afghan Hole? Dig Deeper Joel Bleifuss

Feature

Fighting an ‘un-American’ Policy Robin Petré

The Quiet Revolution Andrew Kennis

Reforming Foreign Aid Jenny Tomkins

What We Can Learn: An Excerpt from Were You Born on the Wrong Continent? Thomas Geoghegan

Emmylou and the EPA Take on Big Coal Peter White

Dispatch

Slavery in Our Time Michelle Chen

Bad Air in ‘Green’ Buildings Melinda Tuhus

Dear ITT Ideologist: McChrystal’s Predicament, and an Insecure Israeli Pete Karman

Tax Dodgers, Inc. Christopher Moraff

Where the Press is Free to Die Stefan Simanowitz

Culture

King of the Crazy Suit Beau Hodai

Social Media: Peril + Promise Deanna Zandt

Howard Zinn’s Final Act of Protest Micah Uetricht

Todd Solondz’s Dystopia in Suburbia Michael Atkinson

Female Rail Tale Mike Matejka

Fighting an ‘un-American’ Policy

Mara Boyd took the fight against the military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy to the White House lawn.

Robin Petré

The Quiet Revolution

Venezuelans experiment with participatory democracy.

Andrew Kennis

Reforming Foreign Aid

Will the Obama administration fix a byzantine system?

Jenny Tomkins

What We Can Learn: An Excerpt from Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?

How Europe builds better products for better lives.

Thomas Geoghegan

Emmylou and the EPA Take on Big Coal

Tough new standards may save Appalachia’s mountaintops.

Peter White

King of the Crazy Suit

Meet Jonathan Lee Riches, the most litigious man in history.

Social Media: Peril + Promise

Will social networks change our world, or just reinforce it?

Howard Zinn’s Final Act of Protest

In his last book, the late, great historian—and former bombardier—examines his troubling actions during W.W. II.

U.S. Nuclear Plants: Old and Incontinent

Slavery in Our Time

For the first time, the U.S. government acknowledges modern-day slavery in the United States.

The End of Men, or the End of Reason?

Susan J. Douglas

Bad Air in ‘Green’ Buildings

Much-touted LEED-certified buildings may not be so perfect.

Dear ITT Ideologist: McChrystal’s Predicament, and an Insecure Israeli

Tax Dodgers, Inc.

Congress tries—and so far fails—to combat "legal" corporate tax avoidance, which costs the U.S. Treasury billions each year

Christopher Moraff

Todd Solondz’s Dystopia in Suburbia

In his sixth film, Life During Wartime, the film director offers another twisted modern fairy tale that revels in taboos.

Michael Atkinson

In an Afghan Hole? Dig Deeper

Where the Press is Free to Die

Death of jailed journalist raises questions in Cameroon, one of Africa's most corrupt nations

Stefan Simanowitz

Female Rail Tale

Linda Grant Niemann goes beyond clichés to show what it's really like to work on the railroad.

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