News Corporation and American Democracy

John BuellJohn Buell (jbuell@acadia.net) is a columnist for The Progressive Populist and a faculty adjunct at Cochise College. His most recent book, Politics, Religion, and Culture in an Anxious Age, will be published by Palgrave/Macmillan in August.Will Rupert Murdoch's public humiliation end with...

Horseshoe Curve

Thomas Dumm Amherst College I have just returned from a visit to Altoona, Pennsylvania, in order to see my father. While there I took a friend to see the world famous Horseshoe Curve. Many people who know my sense of humor think I am being ironical when I refer to it that way, but those who are...

Looking Beyond Spring for the Season: An African Perspective on the World Order after the Arab Revolt

Siba GrovoguiJohns Hopkins University There is much misunderstanding today about the decision of African Union (AU) to not endorse the military intervention in Libya undertaken by France, Great Britain, and the United States in conjunction with a few Arab States. Speculations abound as to whether...

Bridesmaids

Laurie Frankel   Writer and teacher in Seattle at work on         her second novel.     Laurie Frankel’s first novel, The Atlas of         Love, came out in August 2010.  The summer Bridesmaids came out, Salon ran two articles on it...