Felicia Mello

Felicia Mello is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Salon and The Los Angeles Times Magazine.

Coming to America

June 7, 2007

The US guest-worker program has locked thousands in a modern-day form of indentured servitude.
Murder in Monterrey

April 24, 2007

A labor organizer was beaten to death after exposing exploitative labor practices in the United States and Mexico.

2006

Hard Labor

August 24, 2006

The organic label means your food is pesticide-free, but an investigation into California farms reveals that the label means nothing but pain for the workers who produced it.

Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan | "Once again, the loudest case for enlarging the war is being made by those who will not have to fight it..."
John Nichols
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Palin as the Church Lady | Going Rogue book tour brings passive-aggressive rightwing Christianity to the fore.
Leslie Savan
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Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
Eric Alterman

An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan | President Obama is expected to make a decision regarding his Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Chongqing: Socialism in One City | China is managing the most important event in the world: the urbanization of half a billion people. Fast.
Robert Dreyfuss
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Toward Copenhagen | A guide to joining the movement against climate change.
Peter Rothberg
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