Confronting the Truth about Torture Confronting the Truth about Torture
Despite mounting evidence, Americans remain willfully blind to the government's barbaric treatment of terror suspects. Now, human rights groups and religious organizations are usi...
Aug 25, 2006 / Feature / Jonathan Blitzer
Angrily Awaiting a Messiah Angrily Awaiting a Messiah
In Mexico City and beyond, tensions are rising between government security forces and thousands of impoverished supporters of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a restive c...
Blackwater Shot Down in Federal Court Blackwater Shot Down in Federal Court
A federal appeals court has ruled a wrongful death lawsuit can proceed against Blackwater USA: Families claim the firm cut corners in pursuit of profit in Iraq, leading to the bru...
Aug 25, 2006 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
A Right to Food? A Right to Food?
Hunger is a violation of basic rights: a right to food, but more important, Bolivian and Brazilian experience suggests, a right to power.
Aug 24, 2006 / Feature / Frances Moore Lappé
Black Farms, Black Markets Black Farms, Black Markets
For black farmers, succeeding financially and bringing healthy food to urban markets remains an uphill battle against a lack of business contacts.
Aug 24, 2006 / Feature / Habiba Alcindor
How Harlem Eats How Harlem Eats
Urban restaurateurs, activists and consumers are seeking "food justice," insisting that healthy food shouldn't be a privilege for the wealthy and white.
Aug 24, 2006 / Feature / Mark Winston Griffith
Edible NOLA Edible NOLA
A new charter school is embracing "eco-gastronomy"--a holistic curriculum based around food--hoping "to renew New Orleans one okra plant and one child at a time."
Aug 24, 2006 / Feature / Randy Fertel
Mean or Green? Mean or Green?
Wal-Mart is serious about bringing organic food to the masses, but transportation costs and the retail giant's aggressive competitive ways could end up hurting small farms and the ...
Aug 24, 2006 / Feature / Liza Featherstone
Hard Labor Hard Labor
The organic label means your food is pesticide-free, but an investigation into California farms reveals that the label means nothing but pain for the workers who produced it.
Aug 24, 2006 / Feature / Felicia Mello
One Thing to Do About Food: A Forum One Thing to Do About Food: A Forum
How do we fix our dysfunctional relationship with food? Alice Waters leads a forum with Eric Schlosser, Marion Nestle, Peter Singer and others, who suggest, for starters, that we...
Aug 24, 2006 / Feature / Jim Hightower, Eric Schlosser, Peter Singer, Eliot Coleman, Vandana Shiva, Carlo Petrini, Winona LaDuke, Elizabeth Ransom, Troy Duster, Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan, and Marion Nestle