Hope at Midnight
Belief:
Atheism and Diversity: Is It Wrong For Atheists To Convert Believers?
Greta Christina
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace:
Let's Get Rolling on Unemployment -- We Need a Direct Govt. Jobs Program
Isaiah J. Poole
DrugReporter:
The Feds Are Addicted to Pot -- Even If You Aren't
Paul Armentano
Environment:
The Most Urgent Threat to World Peace is … Canada
George Monbiot
Food:
The Recession Is Taking a Bite Out of Meat Consumption
Martha Rosenberg
Health and Wellness:
10 Signs Vegetarianism Is Catching On
Kathy Freston
Immigration:
Why Is the Department of Homeland Security Incarcerating Refugees Across the U.S.?
Emily Creighton
Media and Technology:
What Do Levi Johnston, Evangelicals and Oprah Have in Common? They All Blind Us to What Really Matters
Chris Hedges
Movie Mix:
Disney Apocalypse: Why 2012 Sucks
Alexander Zaitchik
Politics:
Obama's Misguided War Speech Shouldn't Be the Last Word on Afghanistan
John Nichols
Reproductive Justice and Gender:
Have Women's Lives Improved Globally?
Laura Liswood
Rights and Liberties:
Why Fanaticism Can Be a Good Thing
Rebecca Solnit
Sex and Relationships:
6 Tricks to Sex After a Divorce
Julie Bogart
Take Action:
G-20 Meetings: Nothing Much Happened in the Suites, and There Was Too Much Punch in the Streets
Laura Flanders
Water:
Pennsylvania Residents Sue Gas Driller for Contamination, Health Concerns
Abrahm Lustgarten
World:
A Humanitarian Disaster in the Making Along the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline -- Who's Watching?
Brendan Schwartz, Valery Nodem
Rebecca Solnit is the author of 'Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities'. The ideas here were generated as she revisited the book for a new edition.
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Let's Get Rolling on Unemployment -- We Need a Direct Govt. Jobs Program Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: At a time when unemployment is expected to exceed 10 percent for the next several months, we should be talking about direct job funding by the government. By Isaiah J. Poole, Blog for Our Future. December 2, 2009. |
Why Fanaticism Can Be a Good Thing Rights and Liberties: It's popular to think the world gets changed by delightful people, but agents of change are often obsessive, intransigent, unreasonable, and demanding. By Rebecca Solnit, Comment Is Free. December 1, 2009. |
Former Member of Afghan Parliament: Obama, We Don't Want a Troop Surge in Our Country World: If Barack Obama heralds an escalation of the war, he will betray his own message of hope and deepen my people's pain. By Malalai Joya, Comment Is Free. December 1, 2009. |
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