1. Senate Poised to Capitulate to Cheney\'s Fear-Mong
(Newsletter)

... Review By MWC NEWS    Thursday, 24 January 2008 John Bowe's terrific new book called "Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy" takes t...

2. Bacon as WMD
(Opinions/Daily)

...es later in the day. By the time that two-year-old is four or five years of age, after they’ve been exposed to the modern American diet of fat, sugar and salt, they no longer are able to compensate. I...

3. Celebrate Torture Day by Punishing Torturers
(Opinions/Society)

...nti-torture proclamation did nothing to stop his administration from formalizing perhaps the most brutal abuses in modern American history. Top Bush administration officials created twisted rationales...

4. The Conservative Rebellion
(Opinions/Society)

...e of anti-intellectual populists and political extremists. Novelist Christopher Buckley, the son of the founder of modern American conservatism, has endorsed Barack Obama for president. Columnists Kat...

5. Mad Dog Palin
(Opinions/Politic)

...ortance progressive critics seem to attach to these revelations, you'd think that these were actually negatives in modern American politics. But Americans like politicians who hate books and see the f...

6. Pathetic Arguments for Foreign Intervention
(Opinions/op-ed)

...han in the Middle East. Libertarianism makes no accounting for this. It assumes the relatively tame aspirations of modern American life are a baseline for human nature, not an achievement of civilizat...

7. Is Slavery in Our Future?
(Opinions/Review)

John Bowe's terrific new book called "Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy" takes the reader on a journey ending in the question I've placed abov

8. The Virgin Mary Dances at the Bada Bing
(Editor/Editorial)

...actor, playwright, and cultural critic. His primary theoretical book on theatre is Get the Guests: Psychoanalysis, Modern American Drama and the Audience (U of Wisconsin P, 1994). His plays include An...

9. Election Day Special
(Editor/Editorial)

...actor, playwright, and cultural critic. His primary theoretical book on theatre is Get the Guests: Psychoanalysis, Modern American Drama and the Audience (U of Wisconsin P, 1994). His plays include An...

10. Beyond The Corrie Controversy
(Opinions/Features)

... playwright, and cultural critic.  His primary theoretical book on theatre is Get the Guests: Psychoanalysis, Modern American Drama and the Audience (U of Wisconsin P, 1994).  His plays incl...