Stories by Astra Taylor
Astra Taylor is a writer and documentary filmmaker. Her first book, "Shadow Of the Sixties," is forthcoming from the New Press in 2007.
Americans keep making less and spending more. That lifestyle is contributing to supersized debt and the decline of progressive politics.
Posted on Nov 2, 2007
Since its fiery demise in 1969, there have been various attempts to revive Students for a Democratic Society. All such efforts failed ... until recently.
Posted on Mar 22, 2007
The U.S. military is poisoning the very citizens it is supposed to protect in the name of national security.
Posted on Aug 4, 2006
The author of a novel about Vietnam-era radicals says you have to understand the '60s to make sense of the mess we're in today.
Posted on Jun 8, 2006
Conservatives are winning the battle over how the 1960s are remembered. But their version is far from the truth.
Posted on May 19, 2006
