Chronological Archive -- In These Times

Features
By David Sirota
July 4, 2008

The Free Trade Heretic

Ha-Joon Chang is an award-winning Cambridge economist whose new book, Bad Samaritans, explodes what its subtitle calls "the… more

Bush’s Selective Mourning

The Fourth of July is the time for patriotic hoohah by national poobahs. So, Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush… more

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News
By Natasha Eziquiel-Shriro
July 2, 2008

Re-thinking Soup for the Soul

Re-thinking Soup, a project of Chicago's Jane Addams Hull House Museum, serves up bowls of soup to bring… more

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By Martha Biondi and James Thindwa
July 1, 2008

Earth to Ken Brociner

In The American Left: What Progressives Can Learn From Obama, Ken Brociner claims that the U.S. left, especially… more

Hard Times for Student Borrowers

Kelly Lynch, a former Columbia College Chicago film and video major, is paying educational loan lender Sallie Mae… more

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By Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium
June 29, 2008

Avoiding the Torture Taint: Advice from Military Lawyers

Even as they worked out details of how interrogation techniques widely regarded as torture would be used on detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Pentagon officials sought to keep the blood off Defense Department hands

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By Silja J.A. Talvi
June 28, 2008

Reporting From The Ground Up

The power of street reporting

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Features
By Chris Lehmann
June 27, 2008

Freedom of the Press Moguls

The Newseum, the latest addition to Washington's sprawling, preening, self-singing monument-memorial complex, may boast a constitutional amendment engraved… more

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By David Sirota
June 27, 2008

This Summer’s Trilogy of Truth

The future of the media is cloudy. In this brave new world of YouTube, Facebook and 400 cable… more

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Culture
By Theodore Hamm
June 26, 2008

Reading The Onion Seriously

Combining irreverent humor and acerbic critique, a handful of new media outlets -- including The Onion -- are transforming American politics and culture, writes Theodoe Hamm, in his new book The New Blue Media.

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Features
By James Foley
June 25, 2008

The Price of One Iraqi Life

U.S. military tries to pacify grieving Iraqis with condolence payments

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By Paul Hockenos
June 25, 2008

‘The Kosovo Dilemma’ goes astray

The 1999 NATO-led bombing against Serbia was a humanitarian intervention, not a U.S. and European power grab

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By Ken Brociner
June 24, 2008

The American Left: What Progressives Can Learn from Obama

One of the trademarks of Barack Obama's presidential campaign has been his commitment to a new style of… more

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Culture
By David Moberg
June 24, 2008

Our Imperfect Unions

Pick almost any metric -- fraction of workers in unions, lag of pay behind productivity increases, growing hours… more

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Features
By Kari Lydersen
June 23, 2008

Canaries in the Uranium Mine

Navajos gear up for renewed legal battle to protect their life and land

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By Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium
June 22, 2008

‘If the Detainee Dies, You’re Doing it Wrong

When former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved the use of harsh techniques, he did so over the objections of senior military attorneys from all branches of the armed services

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Features
By Slavoj Zizek
June 20, 2008

The Ambiguous Legacy of ‘68

Forty years ago, what was revolutionized -- the world or capitalism?

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By David Sirota
June 20, 2008

Countering Race With Class

In our us-versus-them culture, every political campaign is a battle to define who exactly the "us" and "them"… more

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Features
By Bill Stamets
June 19, 2008

Anthropologists At War

New military program that embeds anthropologists with soldiers has academics up in arms

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By Laura S. Washington
June 19, 2008

The Great Election Robbery of 2008?

Come Nov. 4, the elephant in the polling booth is the possibility that the 2008 presidential election will… more

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Features
By David Moberg
June 18, 2008

Dismantling the Myth of McCain

How the Republican senator's maverick image is a sham

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Culture
By Pat Aufderheide
June 17, 2008

P.O.V.: A Home For Homeless Films

P.O.V. is one of those occasional reminders that public broadcasting matters. Every year, like its complementary series Independent… more

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News
By Kate Sheppard
June 17, 2008

A Textbook Case

AP students learn ABCs of right-wing talking points

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By Salim Muwakkil
June 17, 2008

Israel’s Openly Secret Nukes

Foes of nuclear proliferation got two disturbing bits of news last month. One was the May 26 report… more

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News
By Kay Steiger
June 16, 2008

ICE Cold to Kids

At 10 a.m. on May 12, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents descended on a meat processing plant… more

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By Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium
June 15, 2008

The Friendship Offensive

Peace activists on Capitol Hill hope to stave off war with Iran through cross-cultural contact between ordinary citizens

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Features
By Bradford Plumer
June 13, 2008

The Divided States of America

After the first-ever televised presidential debate between Vice President Richard Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy in 1960,… more

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By David Sirota
June 13, 2008

An Anti-Clinton For VP

You can't turn on a television or have a conversation about politics without being accosted by speculation about… more

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By Terry J. Allen
June 12, 2008

On AIDS, Wright Is Wrong

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color," the… more

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Features
By Adam Doster
June 11, 2008

Expand the Vote

The Obama campaign’s voter registration drive could radically alter the electoral map this fall

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By Susan J. Douglas
June 10, 2008

Damned If Feminine, Damned If Feminist

What role has sexism played in the race for the Democratic nomination? Hillary Clinton answered that seething question… more

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Features
By John Gibler
June 10, 2008

Death Squads in Oaxaca

The Mexican government ignores the assassination of two community radio activists

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News
By Jessica Pupovac
June 9, 2008

The Right’s New Attack on Voters

Last April, as a national debate raged over whether Indiana's voter ID law protects election integrity or disenfranchises… more

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By Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium
June 8, 2008

A General’s False Testimony

Will the Pentagon correct Major Gen. Jerome Johnson's tainted testimony on the contaminated water KBR provided to the troops?

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Features
By Paul Hockenos
June 6, 2008

Does the E.U. Hate You?

Despite popular myth, anti-Americanism in Europe isn't on the rise

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By David Sirota
June 6, 2008

The Populist Uprising

American history is the history of populist uprisings. From the Revolutionary War to the coalfield wars, from labor… more

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Features
By Jeremy Bigwood
June 4, 2008

No Strings Attached?

How U.S. funding of the world press corps may be buying influence

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News
By Sam Boyd
June 2, 2008

Red State, Green Campaign

This election year, one of the greenest campaigns is being run not in blue Massachusetts or California, but… more

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By Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium
May 31, 2008

Byron Dorgan’s Contracting Fraud Crusade

The North Dakota senator has made investigating contractor corruption his mission, but will he succeed in creating a congressional committee devoted to it?