Occupy protests spur music explosion
Every social movement has inspired artists to enlist their talents to create cultural expressions that in turn stir the masses and broaden the cause.
GOP blackmail: a view from West Virginia
It beats me what is really going through the minds of the House Republicans. I am inclined to conclude it's sewage.
Six reasons to oppose Keystone pipeline
There are many reasons to oppose the building of an oil pipeline from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, to the refineries off the shores of Texas in the Gulf of Mexico.
Bipartisan fetish will kill Medicare
Medicare, from its inception, has been under attack by the private, profit-hungry insurance industry and the political far right.
Finding Joe Hill in new biography
Nowhere is the romance of the Industrial Workers of the World more beautifully told than in the life and songs of its greatest troubadour, Joe Hill.
The Iraq war is not over for my son
I finally got the call I had been waiting for since President Obama announced that our troops will be home for the holidays . My son will be returning from Iraq.
The 2012 elections are critical to defeating the 1%
With the 2012 elections less than a year away, the entire right wing is amassing great sums of money in order to win. They want to take over the White House and the both houses of Congress.
"Young Adult": You can't go home again to Kilimanjaro
The only uplifting thing in the movie was the IATSE union bug in the last frame.
"We're unemployed and we are united!" at Take Back the Capitol
Those in Congress who are arrogantly playing politics with the lives of four million workers on extended unemployment compensation will not have a quiet moment.
"Why Marx Was Right": lively challenge to 10 myths
Eagleton's bright, witty book marches forward into the usual stumbling blocks erected over the decades in the environment of popular ideology and topples them.
