Does a Nationwide 'Progressive Movement' Actually Exist? InTheseTimes.com columnist Ken Brociner asks whether all the moderates and progressives galvanized by the George W. Bush era add up to "a" (or "the") progressive movement.

All Guns, No Butter. Thomas Christie, the Pentagon's former director of Operational Test and Evaluation, has seen a lot of weapons money pass through the Defense Department. What he has to say about U.S. defense spending and the military-industrial complex in this interview should be front-page news everyday: "We don’t know where the hell all this money is! We can’t track where our money is going. And we’ve known this for 20 or 30 years."

63 Years Later, 5 Minutes to Nuclear Midnight. On the 63rd anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Contributing Editor Frida Berrigan takes a look at the nuclear threats "bedeviling" the world. Berrigan, part of the New America Foundation's Arms and Security Initiative, finds stalled or ignored disarmament agreements and a worrisome attachment to nuclear power from the two presidential nominees. You can read her article here.

Life After Foster Care. In 2007, Illinois became the first state in the country to push foster care "emancipation" to age 21. But has the extra three years of state care helped foster kids make it on their own? Find the answer here.

NEXT WEEK: Flat screen TV greenhouse gases... 'White space' spectrum and the future of WiFi... and Salim Muwakkil on the Jesse Jackson/Obama fiasco.

And remember, visit InTheseTimes.com for cartoons and Senior Editor David Sirota's weekly column.

Have a good weekend,

Jeremy Gantz

Web editor