The nation’s rising rate of suicide, the highest since 1986, corresponds to a shape-shifting economy that is in the final stage of its mutation from an industrial economy to a post-industrial economy, in which living standards are declining and employees work harder for less pay.
This is cultural genocide. It’s not Israeli food. It’s Arab (Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, Jordanian). First, the Israelis take the land and ethnically cleanse it of Arabs. Now they take their food and culture and claim it’s theirs too! Shame,
– James Zogby
Nothing in a swath of land stretching from the Atlantic coast of Africa to China is undisputed.
Food is often emblematic of disputes over identity, history and political claims that underlie an arc of crisis wracked by ethnic and religious conflict; clamour for political, economic,
A regressive definition of rape highlights the country’s stubbornly traditional attitudes toward women.
As the enigmatic street artist closes his month-long ‘residency’ in New York, it’s unclear where genuinely incendiary art fits into the world of commerce.
With Banksy’s month-long New York exhibition having come to a conclusion over Halloween, savvy New Yorkers now get a chance to reflect upon the tricks and treats the famously anonymous street artist served up for his adoring fans. It is doubtful, however, whether any will really appreciate Banksy’s art – ephemeral and transitory as the
Who are the real vampires in America: the right-wing’s cartoonish portrayal of “illegal” immigrants, or the bloodsucking exploits of the corporate world?
Some pretty ghoulish things have been taking place in our society, and in particular, in our nation’s capital. The terror of economic uncertainty – due in large part to the nightmarish games that are being played by the majority in our government’s House of horrors – continually grips us. We find ourselves in a real-life geopolitical
What collective neurosis is the American public trying to untangle with its ongoing obsession with the undead?
With Halloween fast approaching and with events abroad and in Washington more than enough to scare the living daylights out of anyone, let us ponder for a moment the nation’s latest obsession: zombies. Yes, that’s right: the living dead have broken from the bounds of nerd memedom and burst -- or rather, have shuffled aimlessly -- into
Villagers have been sued and prosecuted, intimidated, threatened and shot at while trying to defend their livelihoods.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Five-months pregnant, Im Chanthy was told that her husband's body had been found in the trunk of his car, brutally hacked to death for reporting on illegal logging and land concessions in Cambodia. Many of these concessions, a new report by environmental watchdog Global Witness found, are owned by two Vietnamese rubber
