Can a Green Economy Save a Drying Planet?

While we are busy addressing the economic meltdown, the worst droughts in history present a new, possibly bigger threat that there's no clear roadmap for fixing.

Tom Engelhardt

Can Green Jobs Be Good Jobs?

It felt like a dream a year ago, but a growing coalition of labor unions and environmentalists is putting real muscle into the idea that green jobs will help resolve the economic c...

Jeremy Brecher

A World Without Water

Dr. Peter Gleick, founder and president of the Pacific Institute, weighs in on the severity and urgency of the global water crisis.

Tara Lohan

WSF: Is Another World Possible?

At a time of economic, climatic and political crisis, advocates of social justice gathered for the annual World Social Forum to contemplate a new vision for a better world.

Tim Costello and Brendan Smith

Under the Icelandic Volcano

How a cold country lost its shirt in the global economic meltdown, but ultimately found its soul.

Rebecca Solnit

Your Valentine, Made in Prison

This Valentine's Day you might want to steer clear of Victoria's Secret, unless you like your lingerie made by prisoners.

Beth Schwartzapfel

Britain’s Winter of Discontent

The global economic crisis hits Britain harder than any other developed country. Is it too big to fail?

D.D. Guttenplan

Blue Dogs Bark

Why do the Blue Dog Democrats get so much attention? They're more unified and cohesive than any other House faction. And then there's America's love affair with fiscal conservatism...

Chris Hayes

Looting Social Security

Behind closed doors, advocates of entitlement reform are pushing Obama to tap the Social Security surplus to pay for bank bailouts. It could be a defining test for new politics ...

William Greider

The Leavetaking

What legacy did Harold Pinter leave behind?

Richard Byrne

Three Poems

Henri Cole

Henri Cole: The Art of Violent Concision

Henri Cole's Blackbird and Wolf contains some of the most truthful poems in modern American poetry. He is this year's winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

John Koethe

The Human Metaphor: Marlene Dumas and Barkley Hendricks

The paintings of Marlene Dumas, at the Museum of Modern Art, and Barkley Hendricks, at the Studio Museum of Harlem.

Barry Schwabsky

States of Mind: The Idea of Iran

Thirty years after the Islamic revolution, Iran teeters on the brink of a different kind of revolt. Four books shed light on an ancient nation's many incarnations.

Negar Azimi

Back Talk: Adam Frank

A conversation with astrophysicist Adam Frank about science, religion and manifestations of the sacred in the physical world.

Christine Smallwood

An Alienation Artist: Kafka and His Critics

Unraveling the Kafkaesque mystique of Franz Kafka.

Alexander Provan