magazine January 2009

Chávez Wins Again

Venezuelans continue to support socialist leader despite corruption fears

By Steve Ellner   

Pulp Friction

A private equity firm’s decision to shut down a profitable paper mill devastates a Wisconsin community.

By Roger Bybee   

Mind the Gap

What the narrowing divide between a center-left nation and a center-right establishment portends.

By David Sirota   

Lines Drawn in the Sandinistas

Nicaragua’s democratic left chafes under President Ortega’s rule.

By Freda Moon    central america politics

Making the Feds Model Employers

Obama must put a stop to worker abuse by private contractors.

By David Moberg    labor politics

Which Way to Universal Healthcare?

Two leading reformers debate the role of private insurers.

By Ezra Klein    medical & health

The Radical Conservative

Vietnam veteran and author Andrew Bacevich on American decadence and the failure of the Iraq War.

By David Barsamian    george w. bush military politics

What Went Wrong?

The campaign money scandal of Teamster President Ron Carey.

By Steve Early   

No Choice for Immigrants

Catholic Bishops and HHS trample reproductive rights of teens in federal custody

Korean Workers get Sirius

Female factory workers wage three-year strike against satellite radio manufacturer.

We Arm the World

The United States once again leads the world in exporting weapons.

Bush's Final Purge

The lame duck gives dissenters in federal agencies a last round of pink slips.

Mo’ Power for Low Power

Activists hope Congress will allow low-power FM radio stations in urban areas in 2009.

film

See Dick Squirm

New documentary chronicles legendary 1977 Frost/Nixon interviews

By Kevin Canfield   

books

It's Not Easy Becoming Green

Van Jones lays out his plan for a green economy

By David Roberts   

Live Chat -- Resistance Now!

Palestinian struggle goes viral

By Michelle Chen   

books

Jim Crow in the North

A new history examines the struggle to integrate above the Mason-Dixon Line.

By Lewis M. Steel   

The Truth Machine

Detecting lies or setting the stage for abuse?

By Peter Kavanagh    ethics social justice technology

Editorial

The Interactive Presidency

Obama’s 13 million supporters hope their new president will take his cues from them—that their voices will be heard above those of status quo Democrats and corporate flacks

The Third Coast

Al Qaeda Plays the Malcolm Card

Many Islamist groups fear the election of a black American president with explicit African roots will lessen anti-American fervor among their recruits.

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Prop Hate and My Family

Last Labor Day, my partner and I were legally married in California. Two months later, 52 percent of Californians voted to take our… more

Back Talk

Invisible Women

I'm hoping that, as secretary of state, we get a Hillary 'It Takes A Village' Clinton who will see the welfare of women as central to her statecraft.

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Cancer: Cause and Defects

When Sarah Palin says stupid things, they have the virtue of sounding really dumb. Appropriate derision greeted her insistence that what caused global… more

That Old Saying in Tennessee

The veto is the legislative equivalent of a nuclear warhead -- a rarely used instrument of devastating force that singularly vaporizes the votes… more

Team of Zombies

Only weeks ago, the political world was buzzing about a "team of rivals." America was told that finally, after years of yes-men running… more

Past the Point of No Return

Why did Barack Obama choose to come all the way to Denver, Colorado to sign the economic recovery package this week? Did he… more

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BS at BU: The O'Reilly Factor

Is it too much to ask that one of our foremost schools of journalism refrain from honoring Bill O'Reilly, no matter how generous he's been?