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Religion and Progressive Politics
Robert Jensen
The presence of religion in U.S. politics is extensive. There is no shortage of preachers promising salvation. Some tend to be strongly conservative and promote a right-wing agenda. But there is a counter-tradition from the progressive side. It goes back to Dorothy Day, the Berrigan brothers, Martin Luther King, Jr., to the present with Sister […]
The Kissinger Case
Christopher Hitchens
Henry Kissinger beware. With the detention of former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet and the arrest of Yugoslavia’s Slobodan Milosovic, no longer can tyrants hide behind the defense of sovereign immunity for their crimes against humanity. While some still consider Kissinger one of the U.S.’s most influential political power brokers, as Secretary of State and National […]
United States of Surveillance
Alfred McCoy
The telescreens in Orwell’s “1984” monitoring Winston Smith are crude devices compared to 21st century technology but they make the point. Big Brother is watching your every move. Today, the weapons of surveillance in the hands of state agencies have grown enormously in scope and sophistication. Basic rights are in jeopardy. Invasions of privacy such […]
The Fate of Legal Abortion
Katha Pollitt
There are few issues more divisive than abortion. Vitriolic rhetoric denouncing Planned Parenthood is part of a larger agenda: eliminating legal access to abortion. The historic 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision declared: “We recognize the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwanted government intrusion into matters so fundamentally […]
Israel & Palestine: What’s Next?
Diana Buttu, Ilan Pappe
The decades-long one-sided Washington policy in favor of Israel reached new heights during the Trump regime. The peace process is a joke. The ever-expanding Jewish-only colonies, known euphemistically as settlements, have grown ever larger. The possibility of a sovereign, viable Palestinian state has dramatically receded. Yet, despite the occupation, the Palestinians practice, what is called […]
The Rise of the Hindu Right in India
Rahul Mahajan, Snehal Shingavi
A constellation of Hindu fundamentalist organizations are threatening to shatter the image India has projected of being a secular state. The Bharatiya Janata Party, the BJP, is the political expression of Hindutva, right-wing Hindu nationalist ideology. It is poised to be the dominant party in what is often called the world’s largest democracy. The man […]
Betraying Nature
David Suzuki
Our planet and its people are in peril. Diminishing fresh water supplies, destruction of forests, polluted air, species extinction at an unparalleled rate, and a toxic petrochemical environment are all clear signals that things are going seriously haywire. And climate change, the impacts of which are already evidenced at an accelerating pace, threatens environmental devastation […]
Socratic/Prophetic Traditions Q & A
Cornel West
This is Cornel West’s extended 45-minute question and answer period with the University of Montana students and faculty.
Changing Contours of Global Order
Noam Chomsky
Speech given at the University of Deakin, Melbourne, Australia, November 4, 2011.
Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature & Knowledge
Vandana Shiva
Shiva describes the impact that giant agribusiness is having on global food production and the effects intellectual property rights and patents are having on traditional communities.
In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan
The Time magazine cover story, The Real Cost of Cheap Food, says, “Horror stories about the food industry have long been with us ever since 1906 when Upton Sinclair’s landmark novel The Jungle exposed how America produces its meat. In the century that followed, things got much better, and in some ways much worse. Big […]
Nickel & Dimed: Women, Welfare & Work
Barbara Ehrenreich
The “reform” of welfare is an historic shift in public policy. One of the central linchpins of the New Deal has been undone. Millions, mostly women and many of them with children, have been thrown off the welfare rolls. Many have landed in dead end low wage jobs. Their quiet lives of desperation are not […]

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