Moment of Truth

There is no immigration crisis in the US. But it is time America acknowledged that we need the immigrant workers as much as they need us--and treat them accordingly.

Robert Scheer

The President Is Not Smiling

Card is out, Bolten in. The Senate is stuck on immigration. And every day brings more bad news. Take care of this, will you, Josh?

William Greider

Avian Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Large factory farms, not migratory birds, are now seen as breeding grounds for the avian flu virus. Donald Rumsfeld is getting rich off his investment in Tamiflu. Can this pandemic...

Nicholas von Hoffman

The Dot-Degree Boom

Thanks to aggressive recruiting tactics and a complaisant Congress, online enrollments at the University of Phoenix and its spinoff, Axia College, are soaring. So are student debt ...

Garrett Ordower

Science Fact or Science Fiction?

Climate change is real, and its impact is potentially devastating to our way of life. So why do the news media have such a hard time telling the straight story?

Bryan Farrell

Google’s Wi-Fi Privacy Ploy

Google and other telecom giants are wooing cities with plans to create public Wi-Fi grids. But there's no such thing as a free digital lunch: The price we pay is a loss of online p...

Jeffrey Chester

Republicanizing the Race Card

David Duke and a cohort of white nationalists seek to reposition their minuscule movement at a time when their signature issues have been co-opted by pseudo-populist media personal...

Max Blumenthal

Who Is Killing New Orleans?

Mayor-appointed commissions and experts, mostly white and Republican, propose to radically shrink and reshape a majority-black and Democratic city.

Mike Davis

The Emerging New Euroleft

Europe's radical left is still struggling to articulate new strategies for social, economic and political change.

Hilary Wainwright

The Life I Didn’t Lead

A meditation on travel, art and a life fully lived.

Linda Pastan

Strangers in the Land

Human Cargo and The Rights of Others chronicle the plight of refugees and migrants, revealing how seemingly simple moral positions can assume toxic political form.

Corey Robin

Brother From Another Planet

If you missed the 1995 CUNY "Question of Identity" conference, the issue of October magazine devoted to it, the "remarkable" essay on the same subject in Diacritic...