No Jobs Make Mean Streets

As urban economies collapse, gun violence rises

Back for the Future

Progressives at the Democratic National Convention look to FDR as a model for an Obama presidency

You Can’t Be President

The decrepit state of American democracy

Embedded in Pink

Code Pink has become a lightning rod for contemporary activism - from both the right and left.

Marriage Equality in Peril

'Prayer warriors' battle to pass state referendums banning gays and lesbians from marrying

Hip-Hop’s Planet Rocker

An interview with the legendary Afrika Bambaataa

books

Mapping the Road Less Traveled

Practical Idealists offers useful advice for young activists, but is utilitarian to a fault

film

Sleepwalking Through Seattle

Battle in Seattle is a well-intentioned effort that ultimately misses the mark

books

Punk Manifesto

Erick Lyle's On the Lower Frequencies collects material from the low-budget zines Scam and Turd-Filled Donut -- and deals with issues still important today

The Third Coast

The War We Won’t Talk About

Many in the black community are reluctant to discuss the drug war’s collateral damage for fear it might tarnish Obama’s glow.

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High Court May Immunize Big Pharma

Consumers' right to sue for drug-caused injuries dates back to 1852. But in 2006, the FDA quietly tucked a pro-preemption phrase into the preamble of an FDA-labeling law.

Editorial

United We Fail

Whoever is elected president, private insurers are gearing up to make sure that change entails no change -- with the help of progressive allies who are now lending their names to lowest common denominator reforms.

20 Million Arrests, and Counting

Young people suffer the most under anti-pot laws, but they lack the financial means and political capital to lobby politicians to change them.

Back Talk

What Bush Has Stolen From Us

When have we ever had a president publicly reject the Geneva Conventions and endorse torture as a matter of national policy?