The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Viewpoint

The Crafting of Obama

When Barack Obama launched his presidential bid, he decided to build a staircase, not merely a platform, thereby differing with most African-American presidential aspirants

Laura S. Washington

Dispatch

Universal Health Care for Wisconsin?

In late June, the Wisconsin state senate ratified "Healthy Wisconsin," a plan that is "the boldest and most comprehensive health care reform from any state," according to the Progressive States Network

David Moberg

Feature

In Condemnation of Opting In

Our voices are being drowned out by our peers in the supposedly independent media, like Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore, who calls Starbucks "the new record store," and music journalists like the Chicago Reader's Miles Raymer, who argued in a piece called "In Praise of Selling Out" that the music industry's decline can be "rescued by corporations that make everything but music"

Anne Elizabeth Moore

Viewpoint

Gitmo’s Last Honest Man

Abraham found that "evidence" was generally gathered by inexperienced staff with little legal or intelligence training, and he got no assurance that he was given access to all available evidence on a detainee

H. Candace Gorman

Dispatch

No Match? No Mas!

The Department of Homeland Security is trying to force employers to either fire workers whose names and Social Security numbers don't match. Widespread job loss often results when the government dons its immigration-enforcement blinders

Mischa Gaus

Dispatch

Sins of Omission

As the FAA seeks to expand air travel, is it giving concerns about aviation's effects on climate change the attention they deserve?

Megan Tady

Viewpoint

Blogs Up, Hacks Down

The appearance of seven Democratic presidential contenders at the YearlyKos convention demonstrated that the Kossacks and fellow A-listers--along with what the Liberal Blog Advertising Network calls their 3 million daily readers--are now ensconced as political players

Jessica Clark

Culture

The Kids Aren’t Alright

Daniel Brook's The Trap reminds us that inequality is bad for everyone, rich and poor

Brian Cook

Feature

Palestinians in Iraq Face a Second Exile

Threatened in Iraq, these refugees have no country to return to.

Robert S. Eshelman

Feature

Risking Everything for Europe

Industrial fishing off the African coast ruins livelihoods and sends fishermen on a perilous journey across desert and sea.

Hans Lucht

Feature

Equating Stillbirths with Murders

Just how legally viable is Maryland's Viable Fetus Act?

Lindsay Beyerstein

Dispatch

Civil War by Other Means

Rigoberta Menchú's presidental bid could turn the page on Guatemala's bloody past

Jacob Wheeler

Feature

General Failure

An enduring crisis in civil-military relations threatens America's future

Gregory D. Foster

Viewpoint

Justice Denied

One man stands between Flozelle Woodmore and the "free" world--California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Silja J.A. Talvi

Feature

A Win in the Water War

Stockton, Calif., residents have stopped one multinational company from taking over their water system, but other localities remain threatened

Megan Tady

Viewpoint

The Bush Administration’s New Target: Uninsured Kids

Fighting against SCHIP is Bush's first salvo in the battle for major health care reform

Art Levine

Dispatch

The Drug War’s Collateral Damage

Those victimized by a crackdown on marijuana since the early '90s can be denied everything from food stamps to voting rights to the right to adopt a child

Silja J.A. Talvi

Culture

Giving Science the Finger

Generalizations based on hand shape not only are formulated from small pools of data, but smack of pseudo science.

Jody Kolodzey