Youth in Action: May Boeve, Climate Change Activist

"You Voted, Now What?" For Boeve, becoming an activist begins with small things--like setting up a lemonade stand.

Leanne Shear

Fujimori: Guilty as Charged

Peru's disgraced former president becomes the first democratically elected head of state to be extradited, tried and convicted of human rights crimes.

Peter Kornbluh

Fighting Foreclosure in South Africa

The fight against foreclosures is not simply an American issue; it is a global issue. South African activists recount their experiences in this ongoing Tell The Nation series.

The Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign

The UN vs. Israel: The Gaza Fallout

A UN investigation of Israel's attacks on Gaza may put the US in the middle of a tense dispute between the international body and Israel.

Barbara Crossette

Global Crime Wave?

In this global economic meltdown, with fifty million people potentially losing their jobs by the end of this year, one beneficiary will likely by crime syndicates.

Michael T. Klare

Old Europe, New Again

The European economic model, berated for years by US neoliberals, made a big comeback at the G-20 summit this week.

Jordan Stancil

There Is an Alternative

We now have an opening to generalize from myriad experiments driven by socialist values.

Hilary Wainwright

When Culture Trumps Law

On paper Brazil's abortion ban has a rape exception, but in reality victims are denied choice.

Emma Sokoloff-Rubin

Guantánamo at Home

Terror suspects are held in US prisons on dubious evidence under inhumane conditions.

Jeanne Theoharis

The Jobs Solution

Our economic recovery depends on a massive national plan aimed at full employment.

Leo Hindery Jr. and Donald W. Riegle Jr.

Why Vermont’s Marriage Equality Matters

The legalization of same-sex marriage in Vermont could be a signal of where the freedom-to-marry movement is heading.

Michael Corcoran

Race and the Obama Administration

The upcoming UN-sponsored Durban Review Conference tests America's willingness to offer global leadership to combat bigotry and injustice.

Danny Glover

A Responsible Afghan Strategy

If the United States ever wishes to leave Afghanistan, it requires a sustained engagement using all elements of national power--military, economic and diplomatic.

Lawrence J. Korb and Sean E. Duggan

North Korea Rocket Stirs Hawks

North Korea's rocket launch has set the hawks circling, threatening Obama's non-proliferation agenda before it's off the ground. Chuck Hagel is pushing back.

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Noted.

Sarah Arnold on the Rockefeller drug laws; Ari Melber on Obama's citizen Q&A; Manning Marable on the life of Dr. John Hope Franklin; John Nichols on Arlen Specter's stab in the back.

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Tennessee’s Dirty Data

New evidence shows that water contamination may have been downplayed after December's massive coal ash spill in Tennessee.

Kelly Hearn

Bush Torture on Trial?

The pressure has increased dramatically for Obama to investigate former Bush administration officials for authorizing torture.

David Cole

Pulp Nonfiction

A tax loophole could let the ten largest paper companies rake in a whopping $8 billion. Where's the outrage?

Chris Hayes

Obama Abroad

If ever there was a time for bold US leadership, this is it.

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Summers: Living Large and in Charge

Larry Summers earned $8 million from Wall Street last year. Doesn't anyone in Congress care about the conflict?

Robert Scheer

Shed No Tears for the Spartans

The vanquished Spartans of Michigan State have left a lot of people accustomed to limping through this recession start walking tall.

Dave Zirin

Mad About Michelle

Yesterday's fist-bumping radical is today's mom in chief.

Katha Pollitt

‘Worse Than Death’

Now that New Mexico has ditched the death penalty, not much will change--except for the worse.

Alexander Cockburn

No One to Pray With

How about a hand for Sarah Palin?

Calvin Trillin

Disquieting and Enraptured: On Pierre Bonnard

Pierre Bonnard's late still lifes, on view at the Met, are lessons in unknowing.

Barry Schwabsky

Warlord Politics

Andrew Rice The fighting in Congo started as a modern crusade. Five million deaths later, it's clearly about something else.

Andrew Rice

Lonely Blue Boys

Stuart Klawans Zack Snyder's Watchmen, Tony Gilroy's Duplicity, Greg Mottola's Adventureland.

Stuart Klawans

Letters

Is Capitalism Dead or Playing Possum?

Our March 23 issue, particularly Barbara Ehrenreich and Bill Fletcher Jr.'s foru

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