By Axel CaballeroJanuary 14, 2010. World:Watch video "We Are All Haiti" and help the organization of your choice: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=251321806902
By Henry A. Giroux, AlterNet. November 16, 2009. Civil Liberties:Young people today face imprisonment, the prescription of psychotropic drugs, psychiatric confinement, and zero tolerance policies that model schools after prisons.
By Nomi Prins, Wiley Press. September 29, 2009. Economy:To hear it from the big financial companies, the big crash started when poor people bought homes they couldn't afford. But that was at most 1% of the problem.
By Paul Armentano, Steve Fox, Mason Tvert, Chelsea Green Publishing. August 20, 2009. Drugs:The stats for death and injury tied to alcohol on campus are staggering, yet students are more harshly punished for pot -- which is far more benign.
By Ellen Rupel Shell, The Penguin Press. August 8, 2009. Economy:Are America's 55 million outlet shoppers scoring great deals on expensive brandname products, or getting less than they're bargaining for?
By Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, Mason Tvert, Chelsea Green Publishing. August 6, 2009. Civil Liberties:A new book explains how we're steering people away from cannabis and toward the use of a very harmful and deadly substance: alcohol.
By Chris Hedges, Nation Books. July 31, 2009. Media:A culture that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion dies. A visit to a Las Vegas porn convention reveals we are dying now.
By Ryan Grim, Wiley Press. July 20, 2009. Drugs:As the anti-drug program spread into 3/4 of all school districts by the '90s, America's youth enjoyed a psychedelic renaissance.
By Ryan Grim, Wiley Press. July 6, 2009. Civil Liberties:Exclusive from new book shares the '80s generation's encounter with illicit drugs, and how they really caught on.
By Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch. May 16, 2009. Environment:60 years have passed since a damaged jet dropped a hydrogen bomb near Savanah, Ga. -- and the Pentagon still can't find it.
By Dean Baker, PoliPoint Press. February 7, 2009. Economy:Anyone with common sense, a grasp of simple arithmetic and a desire to go against the consensus should have seen the financial crisis coming.
By John West, Counterpoint Press. February 5, 2009. Civil Liberties:The author explains why, after his parents made their wishes clear, he didn't argue.
By Will Bunch, Free Press. February 4, 2009. Media:The Great Communicator still speaks from the Great Beyond. But he leaves out some very important details about his time in office.
By Greg Mitchell, Sinclair Books. February 3, 2009. Media:In election '08, the ascendance of new media changed the rules of the game and smoothed Obama's path to victory.
By Stephen J. Gertz, Feral House. December 27, 2008. Drugs:Famed for their campy kitsch, gloriously bad writing and outlandish misinformation, drug paperback books embodied seductive cultural taboos.
By Lawrence E. Mitchell, AlterNet. December 22, 2008. Economy:American capitalism is such that a speculative stock market dominates the policies of businesses.
By Hooman Majd, AlterNet. December 18, 2008. ForeignPolicy:An Iranian-American author explains why their president elicits such passionate emotions from both supporters and opponents.
By Bob Moser, Texas Observer. November 5, 2008. Election 2008:The more Democrats focus on economic fairness in the South, the better their chance to shut down the right's culture wars.
By Thomas Frank, TomDispatch.com. August 6, 2008. News & Politics:Conservatives have turned a vast government built for our protection into a device for exploiting us.
By Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Rodale Inc. August 1, 2008. Gender:The new book Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated exposes the gravity of sexual slavery -- evil in its extreme.
By Larisa Alexandrovna, Ig Publishing. July 21, 2008. News & Politics:Once a popular governor of Alabama, Siegelman was framed in a crooked trial and sent to prison by the corrupt Bush administration.
By Allison H. Fine, Personal Democracy Forum. July 3, 2008. Media:Historians will undoubtedly consider our current era of voting machines the technological equivalent of the 8-track tape machine.
By Rick Shenkman, TomDispatch.com. July 2, 2008. News & Politics:Millions of Americans are embarrassingly ill-informed and they do not care that they are.
By Robert Scheer, Twelve. June 27, 2008. News & Politics:The huge "defense" spending going on in our name is irrational and costly, but there are powerful vested interests that want to keep it that way.
By Rory O'Connor, AlterNet Books. June 7, 2008. Media:Shock radio host Ingraham is a master of sounding funny and appealing while dishing out the same hate speech as Sean Hannity.
By Michael T. Klare, Metropolitan Books. May 31, 2008. ForeignPolicy:Shows of force by nations competing to control dwindling energy supplies could trigger conflict in hot spots across the globe.
By Bill Moyers, Doubleday. May 17, 2008. News & Politics:For all of America's shortcomings, we keep telling ourselves, "The system works." Now all bets are off.
By Wendy Chapkis, Richard J. Webb, NYU Press. May 13, 2008. Personal Health:A history of the battle between politics and science over the use of marijuana as a medicine.
By Nick Turse, Metropolitan Books. May 8, 2008. ForeignPolicy:Judging by the Pentagon's own accounting, the army, navy, air force and marines have been very hungry -- and they've been chowing down.
By Jeffrey Feldman, Ig Publishing. May 6, 2008. Media:On TV and the radio, conservative pundits infuse violence into their arguments, destroying our precious culture of civil debate.
By Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com. May 5, 2008. Civil Liberties:In this excerpt from his new book, Matt Taibbi shares his experiences at a Hagee's boot camp for new converts.
By Steven Rosenfeld, Ig Publishing. April 15, 2008. Election 2008:The GOP may have committed massive vote fraud in plain sight by encouraging widespread voter purges and restricting registration campaigns.
By Nick Turse, Metropolitan Books. April 12, 2008. Economy:Pentagon elites and high government officials are tee-ing off at taxpayer expense at hundreds of courses all over the planet.
By Cliff Schecter, PoliPoint Press. April 10, 2008. Election 2008:McCain's official calendar says he was in California on the day of a key security vote, but he was actually in the Senate, voting on 15 other bills.
By Les Leopold, AlterNet. April 9, 2008. Economy:Long after the Democratic Party abandoned labor interests, Tony Mazzocchi continued to fight for the working class.
By Kevin Phillips, Viking Press. April 8, 2008. Is our political system too far gone to even discuss the predicaments of the volatile dollar, run-amok debt and Middle East disasters?
How Free-Market Delusions Destroyed the Economy
American Youth in the 21st Century: Pathologized, Criminalized and Disposable
Wall Street Lies Blame Victims to Avoid Responsibility for Financial Meltdown
Campus Hypocrisy: Marijuana Is Safer, But Students Are Pushed to More Dangerous Booze
How Outlet Malls Have Convinced Shoppers into Thinking They're Getting a Sweet Deal
Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?
The Rise of Gonzo Porn Is the Latest Sign of America's Cultural Apocalypse
Did Anti-Drug Propaganda Help Bring About a Psychedelic Renaissance?
This Is Your Country on Drugs: How the DARE Generation Got High
The Case of the Missing H-Bomb: The Pentagon Has Lost the Mother of All Weapons
Plunder and Blunder; How the 'Financial Experts' Keep Screwing You
I Killed My Parents -- They Asked Me to Do It
Tear Down This Myth: How Reagan's Legacy Haunts Our Future
How Obama Won: The Rise of Web 2.0
In Some States, Fetuses Are Deemed More Important Than Women
The Sensational World of Drug Paperbacks
How the Rise of the Speculation Economy Shaped U.S. Corporate Culture
Why Iranians Love and Loathe Ahmadinejad and Think Nuclear Technology's Their Right
Why the Democrats Are Winning Back the South
The Plot Against Liberal America
How Washington's Right-Wing Wrecking Crew Robbed Us Blind
Let's Call 'Sex Tourism' What It Really Is: Slavery
Scary Politics in Alabama: How the GOP Framed Gov. Don Siegelman
It's About Time for Online Voting
Ignorant America: Just How Stupid Are We?
The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America
Laura Ingraham: Right-Wing Radio's High Priestess of Hate
How Scarce Energy Resources Can Quickly Lead to Deadly Wars
Moyers: 'Democracy in America Is a Series of Narrow Escapes, and We May Be Running Out of Luck'
How Pot Became Demonized: the Fine Line Between Good Medicine and 'Dangerous Drugs'
The Military's Pricey Restaurant Tastes: Gone Are the Days of Grunts Peeling Potatoes
The Violent Language of Right-Wing Pundits Poisons Our Democracy
An Atheist Goes Undercover to Join the Flock of Mad Pastor John Hagee
The Marriage Revolution
How Republicans Quietly Hijacked the Justice Department to Swing Elections
The Military-Leisure Golf Complex
Did McCain Avoid Voting on a Key 9/11 Bill Because He's Afraid of the Neocons?
The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor
If America Declines, Don't Expect Anyone to Talk About It