Op-Ed

On March 12, 1996, the United States Congress passed one of the most regressive and draconic foreign policy initiatives in recent memory with the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity …

Of all the questions I am asked as an environmentalist, the hardest to answer is how I keep on going given the odds. Social workers, college students, moms and …

Israel is hard at work to stop international citizen activists groups from 22 countries that form the Gaza Freedom Flotilla from sailing in less than 3 weeks to bring …

A statue of Lady Justice. (Photo: Vassilena ) In Franz Kafka’s short story “Before the Law” a tireless supplicant spends his life praying for admittance into the …

In an astonishing observation, Rep. Paul Ryan recently declared: “Washington has not been honest with you.” Gosh, Paul, that possibility never occurred to us! What …

[A longer version of this essay appears in “Food,” the Summer 2011 issue of Lapham's Quarterly and is posted at TomDispatch.com with the kind permission of that magazine.] …

“Have you heard anything along that line?” Rajaratnam asked Gupta. “Yeah,” Gupta responded. “This was a big discussion at the board meeting.” -The Associated Press, May 12, 2011

(Photo: Mark Ramsay / Flickr) Class struggle is like gravity: we can recognize it only through its effects. When apples or wages fall, the forces of mass …

(Photo: Gilson Geoffrey / Flickr) Laugh me off as the idealistic son of a physician (which I am), but I still thought the doctor's ethos of "first …

(Photo: Thiago Souto / Flickr) A white woman with gray hair pulled neatly into a bun raises her hand. She keeps it up, unwavering and rigid, as …