First, They Came for the Sex Offenders
February 1, 2012
Judith Levine is the author of four books, including Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Women From Sex, which won the LA Times Book Prize. She also writes a… READ MORE
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Notes from the Editors, January 2012
January 1, 2012
In a little more than two months at this writing (December 3, 2011) the Occupy Wall Street movement has ushered in a new dialectic of world revolt. Occupy movements now… READ MORE
Women, Labor, and Capital Accumulation in Asia
January 1, 2012
Jayati Ghosh (jayatijnu [at] gmail.com) is Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Executive Secretary of International Development Economics Associates (www.networkideas.org). This article is adapted from the… READ MORE
Food as a Commodity
January 1, 2012
Fred Magdoff (fmagdoff [at] uvm.edu) is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. His is coauthor with John Bellamy Foster of What Every Environmentalist Needs… READ MORE
The Paradox of Cuban Agriculture
January 1, 2012
Miguel A. Altieri (agroeco3 [at] berkeley.edu) is Profesor of Agroecology at the University of California, Berkeley and President of the Latin American Scientific Society of Agroecology (SOCLA). He is the… READ MORE
Do the United States and Mexico Really Want the Drug War To Succeed?
January 1, 2012
Robert Joe Stout (mexicoconamor [at] yahoo.com) lives in Oaxaca, Mexico, and his articles and essays have appeared recently in America, Conscience, The American Scholar, and Monthly Review. His most recent… READ MORE
The Center Will Not Hold: The Rise and Decline of Liberalism
January 1, 2012
Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal. His books include The Liberal Virus, The World We Wish to See, and most recently The Law of… READ MORE
Revenge of the Surplus
January 1, 2012
Marc James Léger (leger.mj [at] gmail.com) is an artist, writer, and educator living in Montreal. He is editor of Culture and Contestation in the New Century and author of the… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, December 2011
December 1, 2011
buy this issue The last month (late September to late October 2011) was to all appearances a historical turning point. The Arab Spring gave way to the New York/World Fall… READ MORE
Capitalism and the Accumulation of Catastrophe
December 1, 2011
Over the next few decades we are facing the possibility, indeed the probability, of global catastrophe on a level unprecedented in human history. The message of science is clear. As… READ MORE