Colombia’s Heart of Darkness in NYC–and DC Colombia’s Heart of Darkness in NYC–and DC
Colombia paramilitary leaders extradited to face stiff US drug charges will dodge accountability for their atrocities. Rights watchers say their victims now have little chance fo...
Jul 29, 2008 / Feature / Bill Weinberg
Want Some Basic Human Dignity with that Burrito? Want Some Basic Human Dignity with that Burrito?
In recent years, Taco Bell and Burger King have foolishly resisted efforts by activists to marginally raise the piece rate they pay tomato pickers only to eventually buckle under ...
Jul 29, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Staged Reading Staged Reading
How Judith Thompson's play about Abu Ghraib falls short.
Jul 29, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Alisa Solomon
Among the Missing Among the Missing
This Week: Congresswoman Kang takes a powder, her chief of staff Chet Kimbrough is on the mend and two plotting lovers get vamped on.
Jul 29, 2008 / Feature / Gary Phillips
Extreme Water Emergencies Extreme Water Emergencies
Floods, drought, pollution, wildfires: summer's extreme water conditions afflicting the United States this summer are a call to action. Why are we helpless?
Jul 28, 2008 / Feature / Elizabeth de la Vega
Radio Nation With Laura Flanders Radio Nation With Laura Flanders
Naomi Klein asks if the economy is at risk, or if it's really capitalism? Plus, Annabelle Gurwitch and the celebrating the death of the GOP.
Jul 28, 2008 / Radio Nation
A Serious Question of Character A Serious Question of Character
For many Americans, the measure of a candidate seeking the presidency comes down to questions of character. Perhaps the most important of these is: How does he or she react under...
Jul 28, 2008 / John Nichols
The Suicide Solution The Suicide Solution
Believe it or not, suicide is becoming an increasingly popular response to dealing with debt.
Jul 28, 2008 / Barbara Ehrenreich
MoveOn Forum MoveOn Forum
TPM Cafe is hosting a discussion this week of my MoveOn article. There'll be feedback and criticism from some of the sources I quote in the article, and I'll be chiming in myself....
Jul 28, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Americans, Government, and the American Dream Americans, Government, and the American Dream
According to a new Time/Rockefeller Foundation poll, 85% of Americans believe that the country is on the wrong track. And it is. Our economy is cratering, homes and jobs are bei...
Jul 28, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel