COVER STORY

Features

  • A Freegan World

    Hundreds of urban activists, combining the words "free" and "vegan" have set out to change the way we think and act

    By Sergio Burns
  • Extending Tours, Stressing Troops

    Despite a growing body of medical research, the Pentagon is extending tours of duty to their longest levels since World War II, precipitating the first time in history that active-duty soldiers will spend more time in combat than at home

    By Sarah Olson
  • A Dream Deferred

    Only sustained community activism will reverse the Supreme Court's most recent betrayal of Brown v. Board of Education

    By Lewis M. Steel
  • 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"

    By Anne Elizabeth Moore

News

  • 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

    By David Moberg
  • The Promise of Low Power FM

    The voices aired on low-power stations include evangelists, social critics, tomato pickers and indie rockers--all linked by the credo that radio should reflect the heterogeneity of the communities it serves

    By Michelle Chen
  • 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

    By Mischa Gaus

culture

  • books

    The Secret Lives of Plutocrats

    In Richistan, Robert Frank offers a breezy, well-observed peek into this gated community. You too could visit if you graduate from "butler boot camp" and become a $120,000-a-year "household manager"

    By David Moberg
  • books

    Unveiling Muslim Feminism

    Muslim women's bodies are too frequently used to symbolize the state of Islam in Iran, and the degree to which it associates itself with the West

    By Erin Wiegand

Columnists

  • Blogs Up, Hacks Down

    Oh, what a difference a year makes. At the second annual YearlyKos conference in Chicago in early August, now-confident progressive bloggers played... more

    BY Jessica Clark

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