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Why Won’t Obama Give You a Job?
Wall Street's raking in massive profits and paying its execs and traders record bonuses, thanks in part to government cash. What about ordinary Americans? Working Americans continue to suffer …
California’s Medical Marijuana Law – Just a Smokescreen?
The medical marijuana debate is gathering steam in California, as two disparate engines are catapulting headlong down parallel paths that appear destined to collide in the distance. The impending …
Will Climate Protection Legislation Protect Workers Too?
One great fear is blocking public support for climate protection: The fear that protecting the planet will destroy millions of jobs. Without a bold program to protect workers …
Zombie Politics and Other Late Modern Monstrosities in the Age of Disposability
Monsters of disaster are special kinds of divine warning. They are harbingers of things we do not want to face, of catastrophes, and we fear they will bring such …
Eugene Robinson | Our Rogue Evita
Washington - No force on earth can stop Sarah Palin from becoming our very own “lite” version of Eva Peron — a glamorous and tragic legend, minus the tragedy. …
Legislation to Limit Use of State Secrets Privilege an Uphill Battle
A court case accusing the government of indiscriminately wiretapping ordinary American citizens - coupled with legislation making its way through Congress - could produce another major headache for President …
“All the Conditions Are Assembled for a New Food Crisis.“
Hunger, still and always. And at levels never touched before: Under the impact of the economic crisis, the threshold of a billion people suffering from malnutrition was crossed in …
The Logic of the 9/11 Trials, the Madness of the Military Commissions
With just over two months to go until President Obama's deadline for the closure of Guantanamo, the administration has finally woken up to the necessity of actually doing something …
Paying Off the Warlords: Anatomy of an Afghan Culture of Corruption
Kabul, Afghanistan — Every morning, dozens of trucks laden with diesel from Turkmenistan lumber out of the northern Afghan border town of Hairaton on a two-day trek across the …
Natural Disasters, Climate Change Uproot Women of Color
Fall 2009 Issue