magazine January 2008

Hanging Hate

Backlash against the Jena Six case sparks an epidemic of public nooses

By David A Love    civil rights race social justice

Corporate Potluck

Dietitians and their company sponsors make strange buffet fellows

By Jacob Wheeler    agriculture environment medical & health

Inside the Beast:

Lifelines, Lifetimes and Timelines: Hoisting Ourselves up the Fossil Chain

By Yesmen.org    corporations theory

Empire's Architecture

Should it ever be finished, the U.S. embassy in Iraq will stand as a colossal monument to the Bush administration's failures

By Allen McDuffee    architecture international middle east

Resister in Exile

Haifa Zangana survived Saddam, and urges Iraqi women to survive the occupation

By Sanhita SinhaRoy    middle east womens rights

The Fog of War Crimes

Who's to blame when 'just following orders' means murder?

By Frida Berrigan    military military war

No New Year Resolutions?

SEC proposes curbing shareholder power

Acid-Mining Michigan

Rio Tinto subsidiary Kennecott plans to develop a nickel sulfide mine beneath the fragile Salmon Trout River in the state's Upper Peninsula

Bike-Sharing Is Caring

Bike-sharing programs that provide cheap access to inner-city bicycles are popular all over Europe, and Beijing, and even American cities are catching on

Dropping Out of Electoral College

Maryland is the first state to pass the National Popular Vote (NPV) into law, and several others are right behind

RoboCop in Iraq

In the next five years, according to DefenseLink, the Pentagon plans to spend $2 billion on robots, breaking the monopoly of human soldiers in an army

movies

King of the Crop

Two years ago the federal government spent $9.4 billion to promote corn production, driving small farmers off their lands in Mexico, because they were unable to compete with U.S. imports

By Ben Terrall    agriculture corporations movies

Rocking Lolita in Tehran

Iran's underground music scene has more followers than ever, largely because Iranian musicians are performing on a new stage: the Internet

By Colin Meyn    art middle east technology

Bad Cop, Badder Cop in Brazil

Does the new shoot-'em-up film Tropa de Elite bring out the country's inner fascist?

By Holmes Wilson    movies south america

The Revolution Will Not Be Designed

As we look beyond housing solutions to urban poverty, good design is enjoying a second coming as the cure for what ails us

The Boy Who Cried WMD

There goes the Axis of Evil. On Dec. 3, news broke that 16 U.S. intelligence agencies had concluded that Iran had halted its… more

Come on Cosby, Stop Hatin'

Cosby makes blanket indictments of an entire class of black people, maligning the most vital cultural expressions of its youth.

Beware the Credit-Industrial Complex

Designed to protect creditors, the bankruptcy 'reform' act makes it harder and more expensive to actually declare bankruptcy.

Warning: Drug Ads Can Make You Sick

Jane's family is suffering from plagues of biblical-lite proportions. Her teenage son is unruly and easily distracted. Her daughter has menstrual cramps, is… more

McGovern Still on the Antiwar Path

'When Cheney endorses a war, he exempts himself from participation. But maybe it's wise--he might end up shooting his comrades.'

Catch-22 in the 21st Century

I was astonished that the government classified al-Ghizzawi's account of the torture he had experienced. If you like games, you would love being an attorney fighting this government.

The End of Impunity?

The Senate Judiciary Committee moved to revive a fading congressional zeal for holding the Bush administration accountable to Congress on Thursday by passing… more

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As Hunger Rises, Chew on This

A diet of bread and water used to be emblematic of poverty. Now a global food crisis is transforming that meager meal into… more