December 2010 Volume 34, Issue 12

December 2010

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Viewpoint

Let Them Drink Soda Terry J. Allen

Barbarism With A Human Face Slavoj Žižek

Debating ‘The Change We Seek’ Joel Bleifuss

All Is Not (Yet) Lost Susan J. Douglas

Feature

Notes from the Moral Underground Andrew Oxford

A Wasted Crisis Eric Weltman

China’s New Lost Generation Ryszard Gorky

Changing the Daley Routine David Moberg

A New Blueprint for Change Amy Dean

What We Lost After We Won in 2008 Marilyn Katz

Dispatch

Another Sit-in Success Andy Donakowski

Invasion of the Land Grabbers Joice Biazoto

Radioactivist Vindicated John Raymond

War News Unfit for Print Andrew Oxford

Dear ITT Ideologist: Karzai’s Currency War, and Fearsome Flying Bankers Pete Karman

Culture

‘Old Times There Are Not Forgotten’ Lisa Yun Lee

In Defense of the Public Eve Ewing

The End of Indie? Rachel Lears

The Politics of a New Metropolis Michael Atkinson

Notes from the Moral Underground

How and why Americans are subverting their economy.

Andrew Oxford

A Wasted Crisis

How the environmental movement missed the moment on climate change.

Eric Weltman

China’s New Lost Generation

Dissidents struggle against state-induced historical amnesia.

Ryszard Gorky

Changing the Daley Routine

As a Chicago dynasty ends, progressives weigh their options.

David Moberg

A New Blueprint for Change

A revived progressive program must be built year-round, at the local level.

Amy Dean

What We Lost After We Won in 2008

An anti-war activist explains what the Democratic establishment fails to understand.

Marilyn Katz

‘Old Times There Are Not Forgotten’

Urban prison farming and the difference between reform and revolution.

In Defense of the Public

We must not let the commons be privatized.

Let Them Drink Soda

The End of Indie?

The difference between "mainstream" and "indie" music has almost disappeared.

The Politics of a New Metropolis

Fritz Lang's newly expanded dystopian classic looks better than ever. Its vision of humanity? Not so much.

Michael Atkinson

Another Sit-in Success

A group of Hispanic parents save a Chicago community center from destruction.

Andy Donakowski

Barbarism With A Human Face

Invasion of the Land Grabbers

U.S.-based multinational corporations are buying up massive chunks of Africa.

Radioactivist Vindicated

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission sides with a fired whistleblower.

Debating ‘The Change We Seek’

War News Unfit for Print

Wikileaks' Iraq War Logs revelations are clearer outside the United States.

Dear ITT Ideologist: Karzai’s Currency War, and Fearsome Flying Bankers

All Is Not (Yet) Lost

Susan J. Douglas

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