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Prison labor as the past—and future—of American “free-market” capitalism.

How the big energy companies plan to turn the United States into a third world petro-state.

And check out Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad, just starting this week!

Impoverished by NAFTA, residents of Veracruz crossed the border to work in Smithfield’s Tar Heel slaughterhouse. Now, they're condemned as “illegals.”

It’s insane that an affair—and not his cockamamie ideas—finished Cain.

Miguel Facussé, a biofuels magnate entangled with the drug trade, is waging a bloody war against campesinos—with American support.

Anti-sweatshop activists are embracing Alta Gracia, a company that is going head-to-head with brands like Nike to sell socially responsible clothing on college campuses.

His writing anticipated our own media age of Facebook and Twitter.

James L. Brooks’s Broadcast News, Alan Rudolph’s Trouble in Mind, Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild.

The concentration of wealth and power among a few mega-corporations threatens our political and economic freedoms.