Politics

Black Farmers Still Losing Ground

A new federal lawsuit settlement won't stem the decline in black land ownership, activists say.

Stephen Patterson

WikiLeaks: The TMZ of Global Politics

Susan J. Douglas

‘Old Times There Are Not Forgotten’

Urban prison farming and the difference between reform and revolution.

Lisa Yun Lee

Our Follower in Chief?

Why President Obama’s strange detachment from Afghanistan policymaking is a big problem.

Stephen R. Weissman

Notes from the Moral Underground

How and why Americans are subverting their economy.

Andrew Oxford

In Defense of the Public

We must not let the commons be privatized.

Eve Ewing

The Charade of Israeli-Palestinian Talks

Noam Chomsky

Let Them Drink Soda

Terry J. Allen

Chicago’s Other Community Organizer

Rep. Jan Schakowsky wants to solve the deficit crisis without soaking the lower- and middle-class.

David Moberg

Haiti News Start-Up Challenges Conventional Reconstruction Wisdom

Megan Tady

Debt Vultures Shot for Chanukah

Liberia is saved, but the predators are not done.

Greg Palast

Barbarism With A Human Face

Slavoj Žižek

Invasion of the Land Grabbers

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

Joice Biazoto

To Deter Crime, Get Tough on Wall Street

David Sirota

Changing the Daley Routine

As a Chicago dynasty ends, progressives weigh their options.

David Moberg

Dear Dems: Pass Some Laws Before the Republicans Head Into Town

Michael Moore

Debating ‘The Change We Seek’

Joel Bleifuss

War News Unfit for Print

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

Andrew Oxford