Brooklyn’s Daniel Goldstein led the fight against the Atlantic Yards mega-project for years. Days before moving out of his home, he spoke with The Indypendent about why he fought so long and what he learned. read more »

Thousands of union workers and supporters attended a rally at Penn Station in Manhattan on May 4 to speak out against public transportation cuts. read more »

New York City’s public-school system has endured repeated budget cuts in recent years. And now the state Assembly is considering a $492 million “compromise” cut in school funding for the city in the coming year, while Mayor Michael Bloomberg is threatening to lay off 6,400 teachers. read more »

Former State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, the prime villain behind the weakening of rent laws in 1997 and 2003, was sentenced to two years in prison May 6. read more »

As oil continues to spew into the Gulf of Mexico, New York residents worry that a disaster of similar magnitude could happen closer to home. read more »

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If you’re reading this from outside Arizona, you may be wondering what the heck is going on here. The political process in the desert has gone completely haywire, resulting in the adoption of openly racist laws, dehumanizing police practices and legalized harassment of marginalized groups, all in the name of deterring undocumented immigration. read more »

Preventive medicine is widely considered a panacea for all that ails both the body and the healthcare system. But sometimes an ounce of alleged prevention can lead to a pound of real harm. read more »

Everyone is down on Goldman Sachs. The recent New York Post headline said it all: “Sachs of Sh*%t!” As a teacher of business ethics, I am most curious about the reasons for our anger and what they say about our visions of a just economy. Ultimately, I see our anger as an expression of what Americans are not typically thought to embrace: collectivism. Here’s why. read more »

“If you are upset with Arizona’s immigrant laws, please don’t take it out on Major League Baseball! Sports and politics do not mix!” read more »

A nation of 28 million people, Nepal is in the middle of a tense standoff between a revolutionary movement and a weakened regime — and the moment of truth is fast approaching. Two power structures are at loggerheads in Nepal. One just finished filling the streets of the capital city with a massive civil uprising marked by both discipline and revelry. The other is backed by the rifles of the Nepalese Army and the heavy weight of feudal tradition. read more »

TIQUIPAYA, Bolivia — Bolivian President Evo Morales spoke for many developing nations last December when he rejected the United Nation’s Copenhagen Accord as “an agreement reached between the world’s biggest polluters that is based on the exclusion of the very countries, communities and peoples who will suffer most from the consequences of climate change.” read more »

TOTORCAHUA, Bolivia—Ten minutes down a dusty dirt road from the World Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change, Don Cristobal points to a plot of wilted corn on the same land his grandparents tended. read more »

I’ve always romanticized the notion of history represented by dusty stacks and rare archives, and last summer I decided to produce an audio collection of my grandfather’s small, but precious, library of pre-modern poetry and classic literature. read more »

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The stereo speakers, arranged together in an altar-like presentation, emit murmurs of some garbled, holy tongue. Each has a lacquered black bull’s-eye at its center — a locus of power and energy. This sound sculpture, “Coronation Theme: Organon” by Nadine Robinson, takes formal cues from a southern Baptist church and a 1963 civil-rights demonstration. read more »

In the April 26th issue of Newsweek, Sarah Kliff ignited a firestorm of debate with her article “Remember Roe!”, asking, “How can the next generation defend abortion rights when they don’t think abortion rights need defending?” read more »