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Current issue headlines: October – November, 2008
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The hardening of French immigration policy, following Nicolas Sarkozy's appointment as Interior Minister in 2002 and his subsequent election as President in 2007, is not the exception in the European Union but the rule. |
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(Illustration by John Game.)
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There is an entire genre of theory explaining why the Western capitalist democracies did not undergo socialist revolution in the 20th Century, as Classical Marxism had predicted. Not surprisingly, most of this material comes from the Left itself. |
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(Illustration by Victor Velez.)
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My feeling is exactly what I write in the article, which is to say, I am very hopeful, but I lack sufficient information to be more than hopeful. I wasn't saying that only others need more information, though many other people do, of course. |
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To the tune of tens of millions of dollars, multinational retail giant Wal-Mart has been funding a right-wing political agenda, according to the Web site WaltonInfluence.com. |
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As the Dow Jones dropped to nearly 8000 last week, losing around 30 percent of its value since the crisis began, John McCain continued to campaign against Bill Ayers, a "weather man" of four decades ago. |
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Believe it or not, condominiums may be some of the most environmentally responsible housing out there today, especially since more and more developers are paying attention to sustainability from the get-go. |
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In the first presidential debate John McCain professed love for veterans and insisted, "They know I'll take care of them." But his record is making many veterans doubt the basis for that claim. |
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Much has been written about Bob Dylan's life and work, and much of it is very good. From Christopher Ricks' investigation of Dylan's "Visions of Sin" to Mike Marqusee's look at his protest songs in the 1960s and Clinton Heylin's biographical work – not to mention Dylan's own autobiographical "Chronicles" – we have come to learn a great deal more about one of our age's great voices. |
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A US journalist says that in the Cuban city of Bayamo, "a communist experiment is letting average government workers in this eastern city enjoy a few things that only foreigners and moneyed Cubans can usually afford: a good burger, a kicking jazz bar, and stiff cocktails."
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