Can a ‘Yelp’ for Immigrant Guestworkers Help Them Avoid Abusive Bosses? Can a ‘Yelp’ for Immigrant Guestworkers Help Them Avoid Abusive Bosses?
In the fight against labor exploitation, a new tool allows workers to be their own watchdogs.
Oct 27, 2014 / Michelle Chen
Can Consumer Campaigns Actually Improve Tech-Sector Labor Practices? Can Consumer Campaigns Actually Improve Tech-Sector Labor Practices?
The Electronics Watch coalition has a plan: harness consumer power to hold tech giants accountable.
Oct 22, 2014 / Michelle Chen
Is ‘Big Data’ Actually Reinforcing Social Inequalities? Is ‘Big Data’ Actually Reinforcing Social Inequalities?
An increasingly technologized world makes life easier… for some people, anyway.
Sep 29, 2014 / Michelle Chen
With the Wages That Have Been Stolen From Them, Apple Factory Workers Could Buy 1,460 iPhone 6s a Month With the Wages That Have Been Stolen From Them, Apple Factory Workers Could Buy 1,460 iPhone 6s a Month
While the tech world fawns over the new iPhone 6, labor abuses abound at an Apple factory in China.
Sep 10, 2014 / Michelle Chen
No, Millennials Are Not All Libertarians No, Millennials Are Not All Libertarians
Young Americans’ fondness for high-tech innovation could suit our need to shake up the political system.
Jul 23, 2014 / Alex Holt
The Very Naughty Whistleblower The Very Naughty Whistleblower
Pundits and politicians agree: Edward Snowden did something naughty. But what do the people think?
Jul 15, 2014 / Tom Tomorrow
Peak Oil Is Dead. Long Live Peak Oil! Peak Oil Is Dead. Long Live Peak Oil!
The eulogies for peak oil came too soon.
Jan 9, 2014 / Michael T. Klare
Nuclear Hubris: Could Japan’s Disaster Happen Here? Nuclear Hubris: Could Japan’s Disaster Happen Here?
The US has twenty-three reactors of the same design as the Fukushima No. 1 reactor that is now in partial meltdown, and our federal regulators are captives of the nuclear industry.
Mar 14, 2011 / Christian Parenti
The Big Green Buy The Big Green Buy
How Obama can use the government's purchasing power to spark the clean-energy revolution.
Jul 15, 2010 / Feature / Christian Parenti
Robot Rock Robot Rock
Video may have killed the radio star, but the vocoder liberates her voice.
Jun 9, 2010 / Books & the Arts / J. Gabriel Boylan