August 2011 Volume 35, Issue 08

August 2011

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Viewpoint

The State of the Welfare State Jane Miller

Arizona Burning Jim Harkin

Bachmann-Media Overdrive Susan J. Douglas

Feature

Is Obama an Environmentalist? David Moberg

To Despair or Not to Despair? In These Times Readers

Black Chicago Divided Salim Muwakkil

Publicopoly Exposed Beau Hodai

Dispatch

After Fukushima, New Fears in U.S. John Raymond

GOP Breaks  Tea Party Lines Edward Graham

Dear ITT Ideologist: NATO’s Nadir, and the FBI’s Rubbish Pete Karman

Divesting From Private Prisons Joel Handley

Ending Our 10-Year War Cole Stangler

Culture

Hate in the Last Best Place Larry Keller

Let Them Eat Megabytes Chris Lehmann

Virtual Survival Eve Ottenberg

ELF’s Appetite for Destruction Michael Atkinson

A ‘Real Christian’ Boyhood Eleanor J. Bader

Is Obama an Environmentalist?

Eyeing a mixed record and obstructionist Congress, activists hope for the best.

David Moberg

To Despair or Not to Despair?

In These Times readers respond to Sandra Steingraber's call to combat climate change.

In These Times Readers

Black Chicago Divided

Class and generational conflicts intensify, as African Americans cope with the Great Recession.

Salim Muwakkil

Publicopoly Exposed

How ALEC, the Koch brothers and their corporate allies plan to privatize government.

Beau Hodai

Hate in the Last Best Place

Nazis, 'patriots' and the Moral Majority take refuge in Montana.

Let Them Eat Megabytes

Our media and pop culture offers virtually no indictment of the signal malady of our age: rampant inequality.

Virtual Survival

Lower U.S military casualty rates are obscuring the horrors of war.

ELF’s Appetite for Destruction

The new documentary If a Tree Falls details the doomed saga of the Earth Liberation Front.

Michael Atkinson

A ‘Real Christian’ Boyhood

A scion of the evangelical right forsakes his conservatism.

Eleanor J. Bader

The State of the Welfare State

After Fukushima, New Fears in U.S.

Japan's catastrophe has raised new safety concerns about the proposed AP1000 nuclear reactor.

Arizona Burning

GOP Breaks  Tea Party Lines

Will the Republican Party gerrymander freshman insurgents into submission?

Dear ITT Ideologist: NATO’s Nadir, and the FBI’s Rubbish

Divesting From Private Prisons

A new coalition of immigrant and labor groups tries to shame the nation's largest investment firms.

Ending Our 10-Year War

Dissatisfied with President Barack Obama, antiwar groups push for a faster exit from Afghanistan.

Bachmann-Media Overdrive

Susan J. Douglas

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