Opinion

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

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

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

The End of Impunity?

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

Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium

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

The Boy Who Cried WMD

It's time for George W. Bush to holster his guns and ride off into that Wild West sunset only he can see

Sanhita SinhaRoy

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

Primary Importance

For leaders of interest groups and social movements, power comes from being able to show elected officials that you know who, where, and how numerous these hell-or-high-water voters are within your ranks, and within their districts, at all times

Hans Johnson

Anthropologists on the Front Lines

The Pentagon's new program to embed anthropologists with combat brigades raises many concerns

Lindsay Beyerstein

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?

Terry J. Allen

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

Salim Muwakkil

Talking American Democracy in China

Chinese democracy does not involve much voting, awareness of how the government works, information about politics, or what I like to call "facts," yet the Chinese government claims to be democratic, and many of my Chinese friends will agree that this is true

Mike Levy

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

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

The Accidental War

The Bush administration might not deliberately launch a war with Iran, heightened U.S.-Iran tensions could push some minor incident into a major conflict.

Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium

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

David Moberg

Biofuels Are No Cure for Climate Change

Don't judge a climate cure by its color. Give it a rub, and you'll find that the term 'biofuels' is actually obscuring an insidious reality

Megan Tady

The Disturbing Sounds of the Turkish March

The true problem with "militaristic humanism" resides not in "militaristic," but in "humanism," in the way a military intervention is presented as humanitarian aid

Slavoj Žižek