Politics

Killer Fashion: An Industry in Denial

Eating disorders are rampant, and models are dying.

Libby Rodenbough

Hold Them Accountable: Merit Pay for Congress

James Thindwa

Diet Hard: With a Vengeance

Less than three years after the last food crisis peaked, prices—along with hunger and malnutrition—are up again. Don't (only) blame nature.

David Moberg

War Number Three

George Kenney

Utah’s New Immigration Bills: A Blast From the Past

The state laws have been called "the nation's most liberal," but they're not much different from Cold War-era deportation policies.

David Bacon

Vermont’s Single-Payer Salvation

The Green Mountain State is poised to abolish most forms of private health insurance.

Lauren Else

Mad Scientists in the Laboratories of Democracy

David Sirota

Let Us Now Praise Gov. Scott Walker

Susan J. Douglas

Detroit’s Grassroots Economies

Behind the doom-and-gloom headlines, a collective response to the city's problems is already happening.

Jenny Lee and Paul Abowd

Drafting Honduran Democracy

As repression continues, the National Front of the Popular Resistance plans a constitutional convention.

Jeremy Kryt

In Celebrities We Trust: An Excerpt From ‘Back to Our Future’

How Michael Jordan and the 1980s reshaped American politics.

David Sirota

Let’s Share the Sacrifice

Joel Bleifuss

The Secret Life of Economists

Conflicts of interest throughout the Dismal Science are more common than you know.

Micah Uetricht

In Madison, Nearly 100,000 Protest Gov. Walker’s Corporatist Vision

Saturday's rally around Capitol was largest yet, after Walker signs infamous bill into law

Roger Bybee

Dear ITT Ideologist: Cliff Notes on American Democracy

Pete Karman

The ‘80s Origins of Today’s Anti-Muslim Bigotry

David Sirota

AIPAC’s Country, Right or Wrong

Leonard C. Goodman

Home Is Where the Fight Is

City Life/Vida Urbana is on the frontlines of the foreclosure crisis.

Micah Uetricht