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Between Two Worlds – Life on the Border
No writer understands the border culture between Mexico and the United States more intimately than Luis Alberto Urrea, whose life is the stuff of great novels. Son of a …

Fighting for the Future: Interview With Youth Climate Movement Leader Alec Loorz
Alec Loorz. (Photo courtesy of Kids vs. Global Warming)Alec Loorz is a 17-year-old high school student in Ventura, California, who believes his generation is poised to inherit a world …

Violence, USA: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux
One of the things that I am trying to say in this piece is that war has become one of our most vaunted and cherished national values. What I …

David Harvey: Taking Back the Streets for Anti-Capitalist Struggles
David Harvey, anthropology professor, geographer and authority on Karl Marx's work Capital, has just published Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution. The book …

If You – and the Yes Men – Owned Bank of America
An interview with Yes Man Andy Bichlbaum on his latest prank against Bank of America and why every protest needs some fun. Last week, a press release was released …

“There Are Marxists in India?”: Economist Prabhat Patnaik on the Global Crisis
After an engaging half-hour interview with India's pre-eminent Marxist economist during a conference at New York University, I told a friend about my one-on-one time with Prabhat Patnaik. "There …

The Present and Future of the University: An Interview With David Theo Goldberg
In a wide-ranging conversation at McMaster University on March 15, 2012, Grace Pollock, the director of the Public Intellectuals Project, interviewed the internationally renowned race theorist David Theo Goldberg …

Congressional Candidate Norman Solomon on What Makes a Healthy Progressive Ecosystem
Norman Solomon. (Photo: Steve Rhodes / Flickr) Norman Solomon, a longtime activist and media scholar, first came under FBI scrutiny at the age of 14 for picketing a segregated …

National Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance
In his first television interview since he resigned from the National Security Agency over its domestic surveillance program, William Binney discusses the NSA's massive power to spy on Americans …

Jim Hightower and the “Populist Moment”
According to Jim Hightower, “even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.” Progressive Texas populist author, commentator, and orator Hightower — perhaps our country's most …