Category: Politics

This essay was originally published in Dissent magazine (Winter 2006). Since it’s no longer easily available online, I’m reposting it here. It’s safe to say the issues raised in this investigative report about what it means to be a socially responsible business (or not) remain as timely as ever. You can also read below a follow-up debate on

It didn’t take a Secret Service visit this past spring to know (off-his) rocker Ted Nugent wasn’t really threatening President Obama when he declared he’d “either be dead or in jail by this time next year” if the President was re-elected. Actually, it’s more likely next year Nugent will just be playing another gig at

The socialist movement in the United States has long been only a minority on the political scene. The influence of the movement and its ideas, however, is very much a part of American working class history. Those who have claimed Marx and Engels as their political mentors have played a significant role in the history

The thousands gathered in Chicago this past weekend to protest the NATO summit and the G8 meeting in Camp David are another sign we are in a new era of social activism. The Occupy movement is not going away. What is disappearing from the American landscape is the old passive acquiescence to an unjust status

Growing up in a family with ties to founders of the Mormon Church, I learned at an early age a little about the church’s teachings. I read Mormon comic books for children that claimed humans in the Garden of Eden used to live to the age of 900 or so. I learned that God in