American history is no stranger to opportunists posing as experts on fifth columnists or foreign subversives plotting to undermine…
There is one simple truth about the discussion of the looming U.S. debt crisis: it is largely a compendium…
Eating Your Way Around the World
While cities like Paris, Hong Kong and Tokyo generally have more sophisticated food cultures than New York City, the…
This century, barely out of the box, is already flush with mega-disasters: Hurricane Katrina, Haiti’s earthquake, the 2004 Boxing…
Hate and Violence Are Encoded in the DNA of the American Right
Jared Loughner’s attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is a wakeup call for us to confront the reality that hate and…
Any discussion of the global assault on pensions must begin with the three-year-long capitalist crisis, particularly the historical and…
Kentucky’s Rand Paul gained instant infamy when he argued the federal government has no business enforcing integration in private…
Mom, Apple Pie and Islamophobia
The current nativist impulse is not new. The right’s anti-Muslim campaign is eerily similar to 19th-century anti- Catholic bigotry…
BOOK LAUNCH EVENT: Midnight on the Mavi Marmara, Tuesday 9/28
On Tuesday, Sept. 28, Indypendent editor Arun Gupta, along with other contributors to Midnight on the Mavi Marmara, will…
Ideas don’t just die. They have to be challenged with other ideas, and the forces sustaining them must be…
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