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Posted on: Dec 9, 2012, Source: TomDispatch.com

Drug prohibition is making America ever more security mad and locked down.

Posted on: Sep 20, 2012, Source: TomDispatch

The campaigns don’t favor the voters with the gratitude and respect owed to their standing as valuable citizens participant in the making of such a thing as a common good.

Posted on: Jun 24, 2012, Source: TomDispatch.com

The more uncertain our future seems, the more Americans retreat into magical thinking.

Posted on: Apr 22, 2012, Source: TomDispatch.com

I can understand why words construed as product placement serve the interest of the corporation or the state, but they don’t “enhance” or “empower” people.

Posted on: Dec 12, 2010, Source: TomDispatch.com

Transposed into the realm of politics, the greater images of celebrity bestow an aura of stability and calm upon a world disfigured by the frown lines of death and time.

Posted on: Sep 7, 2010, Source: Lapham's Quarterly

The city, as we imagine it -- myth, aspiration, nightmare -- is maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps and statistics.

Posted on: Sep 23, 2009, Source: Lapham's Quarterly

Our quest for eternal youth enables the country's dependence on a broken medical industrial complex.