Jeffrey Haas tells a story that many of us have long waited to read. His book, The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther (Lawrence Hill Books, November), is a much-needed corrective

By the time you read this, election day will be over and pundits will have told us all about how the races were a referendum on Barack Obama. But at least one race--for the congressional seat in New York's upstate

Champions of turf fields rave about their vivid green hue, easy maintenance, longevity and year-round availability. All of which has left old-fashioned grass virtually scoreless in the "real versus fake" debate. But underneath turf's bright exterior lies a potential health

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN--Young Afghans wear face masks as they walk in the main market on Nov. 2, 2009, in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Afghan government has ordered the closure of all educational institutions for a period of three weeks due to the

In the parlance of our times, the term "Idiocracy" means a nation run by idiots--and the term "idiot" is defined by the dictionary as "an utterly foolish or senseless person" who exhibits "a mental age of less than three years

Some people think of museums as refuges of the past, full of brittle documents and mothballed artifacts. However, the new Immigration Sites of Conscience project draws on the historical authority of museums while pulling them into one of the most

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke has given Americans a glimpse of the ugly truth about their future job prospects. Simply put, companies have found that they can shed workers and rely on technological advances and overseas factories to operate

Whose life is worth protecting? If the question shocks us, it is because we hesitate to declare, by implication, that there are people whose lives aren't worth protecting. Yet, while it may not be put in these terms, this is

The big banks are back, larger than ever, with profits and stock prices soaring and huge bonuses expected--thanks to taxpayers and the federal government. That might seem like unabashed good news, but it's not. The real economy is deeply troubled,

First they threatened to take down health-care reform over abortion coverage. Now they're threatening services to the sick and poor of Washington, D.C., over same-sex marriage. They lead a church that claims to stand on the side of the sick

Since September 29, when Mobilization for Health Care for All organized its first sit-in at health insurer Aetna's New York City offices, more than 147 activists with the group have been arrested in 24 actions around the country. Protesters, opposed

The October 26 issue of Newsweek featured a cover story on the "three-year solution," the belief of Robert Zemsky, a University of Pennsylvania professor, that the nation's universities should shorten their undergraduate degree programs from four years to three. In

Let's say you're a congressperson or tea party leader looking to champion deficit reduction--a cause 38 percent of Americans tell pollsters they support. And let's say you're deciding whether to back two pieces of imminent legislation. According to the nonpartisan

TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS--In late September, ousted President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya slipped back into Honduras and took refuge in the Brazilian Embassy with about sixty supporters and his family. Zelaya has been besieged there ever since, the compound surrounded at all times

CHARLESTON, W. VA.--Tensions in southern West Virginia's coal country are higher than they've been in most residents' lifetimes, as opposition to mountaintop removal coal mining increases. On October 14, the US Army Corps of Engineers held a public hearing in

Early on a Friday morning, I switched on my radio to listen to the news as I slowly woke up. What a peculiar dream ... President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Then I realized. I was awake.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The 18-month old liberal "pro-Israel, pro-peace" Washington lobby, J Street, went into its first annual conference with huge momentum and a major news spotlight that only grew with the event itself. Expecting 1000 participants, its venues overflowed at Washington's

Modern-day American border guard Shawn Carter works for the Chicago Transit Authority. His first morning of work at the Western Brown Line El station, a few days before the November 9 anniversary of the so-called Western defeat of Communism, he

This article was written by Ron Baiman, Bill Barclay, Sidney Hollander, Joe Persky, Elce Redmond, Mel Rothenberg. For the last three decades, U.S. public policy makers have operated on the theory that individual entrepreneurial freedoms are essential to the creation

Trade and globalization--when not referencing blockbuster sports transactions or raucous street protests, debates over these abstract terms can give Ambien and Jack Daniels a run for their money as a cure for insomnia. Of course, that's the problem--the rules governing