Truthout
Youth
Commodifying Kids: The Forgotten Crisis
The current crisis offers an opportunity to question the ways in which children's culture has been corrupted by rampant commercialization, commodification and consumption.
Locked Out and Locked Up: Youth Missing in Action From Obama’s Stimulus Plan
Young people in the US face a fragile quality of life.
War Talk, the Death of the Social, and Disappearing Children: A Lesson for Obama
War is now defined almost exclusively as a punitive and militaristic process.
Disposable Youth in a Suspect Society
The “war on youth” not only attempts to erase the democratic legacies of the past, but disavows any commitment to the future.