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Abracadabra: you're a part-timer 20 Aug 2013 | 06:24 pm
Watch closely: I'm about to demystify the sleight-of-hand by which good jobs were transformed into bad jobs, full-time workers with benefits into freelancers with nothing, during the dark days of the ...
Movements without leaders 19 Aug 2013 | 08:38 pm
The history we grow up with shapes our sense of reality — it's hard to shake. If you were young during the fight against Nazism, war seems a different, more virtuous animal than if you came of age dur...
Egypt at midnight 19 Aug 2013 | 03:25 pm
Many in Egypt are clamoring for the American media to tell the truth. They want them to tell America that the Muslim Brotherhood is not a peaceful organization and that those killed by the military we...
Teenagers in space 16 Aug 2013 | 12:16 am
The following excerpt from Tom Engelhardt's book The End of Victory Culture is posted with permission from the University of Massachusetts Press. Part 1, “The secret history of G.I. Joe,” can be found...
Understanding Cairo 16 Aug 2013 | 12:04 am
Who better understands Cairo? The Islamists who insist on Morsi's return to power? The secularists who were determined to put an end to his short rule? The military who are bent on remaining in overal...
The secret history of G.I. Joe 13 Aug 2013 | 08:10 pm
The following excerpt, from Tom Engelhardt's book, The End of Victory Culture, is posted with permission from the University of Massachusetts Press. 1. The first coming of G.I. Joe It was 1964, and in...
Eastern Europe's Jewish theme parks 12 Aug 2013 | 03:21 pm
It's not hard to find articles claiming that anti-Semitism is on the rise. In France, a country that can boast both the largest Muslim and largest Jewish populations in western Europe, this complaint ...
The third carbon age 8 Aug 2013 | 07:20 pm
When it comes to energy and economics in the climate-change era, nothing is what it seems. Most of us believe (or want to believe) that the second carbon era, the Age of Oil, will soon be superseded b...
Is the Berlusconi verdict a cause for celebration? 7 Aug 2013 | 04:17 pm
Following Berlusconi's condemnation to a four-year prison sentence for crimes related to tax fraud and evasion last week, Italian politics is in a frenzy. Immediately after the verdict was announced, ...
I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country: yours 6 Aug 2013 | 07:29 pm
Hey, let's talk spying! In Surveillance America, this land of spookery we all now inhabit, what else is there to talk about? Was there anyone growing up like me in the 1950s who didn't know Revolution...
