The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
Weekly Immigration Wire: Binghamton Shootings Impact all Sides of Debate
Nezua
Weekly Pulse: Reconciliation and Discrimination in Healthcare
Lindsay Beyerstein
Viewpoint
Another Bush Intelligence Failure
Robert Parry

Feature
Sex, Drugs and ESL
New laws policing foreign teachers in Thailand are mostly ignored.
Jessica Olien
Viewpoint
Let’s Expose the Poster Boys of Greed
Susan J. Douglas
Video
Is Obama’s Afghanistan Strategy a Dead End?
Jeremy Gantz
Weekly Audit: Why the Current Stimulus Plan Isn’t Enough
Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger
Kim Jong-il’s Pyrotechnics
Amalia Oulahan

Culture
No Sugar-Coating Immigration
A new film will enthrall baseball fans--and anyone fascinated by the endurance of American ideals.
Brandon Harris
Comics
janereaction
Mikhaela B. Reid

Dispatch
Same-Sex Marriage in the Heartland
Iowa becomes the first state in the Midwest to extend the right to marry to gays and lesbians.
Jessica Pupovac
Friday Afternoon Roundup: ‘Frustrated and Scared as Hell’
Louis Mattei
Gay Marriage Now as American as Corn-Fed Midwesterners
Jeremy Gantz
Video
The Franken-Coleman Saga, in 16 Minutes
Jeremy Gantz
Viewpoint
This Is the Truth on Drugs…Any Questions?
David Sirota

Feature
Do-It-Yourself Governance
Without new social movements, there will be no new New Deal.
Elizabeth Sanders
Resurrecting a Failed War on Drugs
Nezua

Feature
‘Kidnapped’ in Gaza
A BBC correspondent's book--now available in the United States--details his Gaza kidnapping and collects balanced reportage from the Middle East and Central Asia.
Ralph Seliger
