magazine October 2009

The Frontier of Consciousness

Stacy Horn explores the mysteries of parapsychology and its researchers.

By George Kenney    books medical & health

Don’t Frack with Our Water!

Natural gas drilling threatens public health and the environment.

By Polly Howells    environment medical & health

Taking It to the Streets

Vendors battle bureaucracy for their place in the Second City.

By Robin Peterson    activism civil liberties

Mad Men 2.0

America is experiencing a PR revolution that promotes outraged denial over fact-based persuasion.

By David Sirota    media television

Making the Illegal Legal

Israel’s Kafkaesque bureaucracy colonizes the occupied West Bank one settlement at a time.

Canada Tightens Border

After Mexican refugee claims nearly triple, Ottawa establishes new visa requirements.

Chronically Displaced in NOLA

Four years after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the disaster continues.

Michelle Obama, How Does Your Garden Grow?

Critics say EPA standards allowing sewage sludge to become fertilizer are outdated.

Snapshot: After the Coup

TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS—Supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya demonstrate on August 28, 2009. The United States pressured Honduran coup… more

books

The Retail Devolution

Two new books explore corporate evil.

By David Moberg    books corporations wal-mart

film

Gay Boys in Oil City

The fight for GLBT rights in rural America is far from over.

By Gary Barlow    activism lgbt movies

The Politics of Enchantment

The quest for a new kinship with nature might just save us.

By James William Gibson    activism environment

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Capitalist Health Insurance for All

Many 'captive' insurance companies are domiciled in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, making them one-stop tropical shops for tax shelters and self-insurance.

Views

Sold to the United States for Cash

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld bragged that the bounty leaflets were falling from the Afghan sky ‘like snowflakes.’

Back Talk

Killing Granny with the Laziness Bias

Minority positions are made to look like majority sentiment. That affects public opinion, which in turn supports those trying to deep-six reform.

Editorial

Rural America Needs You

Progressives in America must align themselves with those in small towns and rural communities working for change.