The term 'debtors' prison' immediately conjures images of the mid-nineteenth century, when both men and women were locked in prisons until their families could afford to pay off their debt. For some,...
A clip on Rachel Maddow's show Thursday showed that the oil leak still pouring into the Gulf of Mexico bears an uncanny resemblance to one from 1979. Each one of the failed containment plans (top...
Rand Paul claims to represent the Kentuckian masses and their disinterest in the political status quo: both with the Obama Administration's policies on everything from the bailout to punishing BP for...
Art is in crisis – again. No, it's not a fight between alter-modernism and post-modernism or any other art world tussle. This time it's all about the money. Governments across Europe are...
Let me be the first to say this to you: Welcome to the American working class. That was Barbara Ehrenreich, addressing the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism this year....
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms in the Arab world have been growing hand in hand with the resurgence of various countries as members of the fast growing club of successful emerging...
In my recent piece on activism as labor, I briefly touched on the connections between art and street activism, and promised to get back to that soon. I do think that in a discussion of art as labor,...
The latest move by internet search behemoth Google is to pull the plug on its Chinese operations. The tech outfit had a hissy fit when it discovered the Chinese government had infiltrated its servers...
Has the old battle cry “The personal is political” been taken too far or perhaps, too literally? More importantly, have our politics descended into a form of narcissism, of trying to purify...
The chances of a meaningful climate agreement coming out of the UN conference in Copenhagen seem increasingly remote. Obviously, getting the world’s nations to agree on anything provides a...
