On a trip to Portland, Oregon, in 2004, I wandered into the Whole Foods Market, where shoppers are greeted with soft-hued lighting, high ceilings, and carefully groomed displays of choice desserts and organic foods. The overall effect is more like …
John Hoerr’s Harry, Tom, and Father Rice
Yoram Peri looks at the Israeli army and state after disengagement
More than a decade ago, John Sweeney ousted Lane Kirkland and promised to revitalize the labor movement. He put a greater emphasis on organizing and more militant action on behalf of America’s working families. Sweeney and his team brought many …
Recalling another Republican who ignored flood victims
Lessons for community organizing in the life of Rosa Parks
George Lakoff’s Don’t Think of an Elephant!
Notes from Down Under, after a month in Melbourne: The kangaroo isn’t as peculiar as the platypus or as funny-looking as the emu, but it is still a powerful argument against intelligent design. Of course, there is a counter-argument, according …
What happens after the union splits
Ian McEwan’s Saturday
WMD: Threat and Strategies
Sex, Viagra, and taxes
Herman Benson’s Rebels, Reformers, and Racketeers
An international campaign for a boycott of Israeli artists, musicians, teachers, thinkers, writers, and researchers calls itself the “Academic Intifada.” Two years ago, it proposed that the British Association of University Teachers (AUT) should require its members to blacklist colleagues …
As the U.S. occupation of Iraq dragged on, George W. Bush declared in April 2004 that the United States is “the greatest power on the face of the earth,” and that “we have an obligation to help the spread of …
