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Unreal Choices: On The Feminine Mystique

In an afterword to the fiftieth anniversary edition of The Feminine Mystique, the novelist Anna Quindlen recalls seeing her mother, a housewife, sitting at the kitchen table engrossed in the book. I…
PUBLISHED: March 20, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (863 words)

Are Memphis Prosecutors Trying to Send an Innocent Man Back to Death Row?

On Christmas night, 1997, Crumpy’s Comedy Club in North Memphis hosted a party sponsored by a local barbershop, Magic Clippers. The club had opened that spring, attracting popular black…
PUBLISHED: March 20, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (925 words)

Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons.

Photograph by James West.IT'S BEEN SEVEN MONTHS since I've been inside a prison cell. Now I'm back, sort of. The experience is eerily like my dreams, where I am a prisoner in another man's cell. Like…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2271 words)

How American Democracy Became Commercial Property

This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com.  A longer version of this…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3629 words)

Participatory Democracy

This is the fiftieth anniversary year of the Port Huron Statement, the founding declaration of Students for a Democratic Society, issued as a “living document” in 1962. The SDS call for a…
LENGTH: 30 minutes (7692 words)

Reproductive Rights and the Long Hand of Slave Breeding

I hate liberalism’s language of “choice.” I always have. Redolent of the marketplace, it reduces the most intimate aspects of existence, of women’s physical autonomy, to…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1864 words)
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