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Departments
LETTERS
THE CONTRARIAN: Cuba-Socialism's Fading Legacy
Jobs - Internships at Tikkun/NSP this Summer
Calling on Youth: What's Your Vision? Tikkun Writing Contest
Editorials
The Economic Meltdown:
Don't Try to Put Humpty Dumpty Together Again
It's a myth that everything has to be for profit. We can build a caring economy.
Sorrow Ahead: Thoughts on Israel's New Coalition Government
The Obama-Clinton team needs a visionary strategy; it hinges on them.
Rethinking Religion
God is Becoming: Consolation in the Face of Tragedy by BRADLEY ARTSON
God is not omnipotent. The truth is more consoling than that.
What St. John Said about the Economic Meltdown by TONY CAMPOLO
When today's empire is burning, yesterday's prophetic visions suddenly make sense.
The New Saints by PHILLIP BARCIO
You have seen icons of St. Malcolm X, St. Martha Graham, St. Charles Darwin, and St. Anne Frank? No? Then come see this beautiful church.
Politics and Society
ECONOMY & SUSTAINABILITY
Why Capitalism Shouldn't Be Saved by JOHN SANBONMATSU
Why bail out a toxic ship?
Climate Prosperity: Why Marx Was Wrong and Mother Nature Is Right by MARC A. WEISS
Hold hard, there. The ship can be saved, and it can save us all.
Reply to Marc Weiss: The Myths of "Green Capitalism" by JOHN SANBONMATSU
No, it can't. It's structurally flawed. It's sinking anyway.
What to Do When the Bailout Fails by DAVID SCHWEICKART
A new vision of economic democracy.
A Case for Economic Democracy by GARY DORRIEN
It's not your grandparents' socialism. It's pluralistic, pragmatic, and possible.
Understanding the Paradox and the Need: Taking on Hunger and Obesity in America by DEBRA KOZIKOWSKI and MIRYAM EHRLICH WILLIAMSON
Food insecurity and unhealthy food go together like burgers and fries.
A Crisis of Prosperity: Could Small Again Be Beautiful? by RICHARD ROHR
Let's ditch the prosperity gospel and go for soul, for community, for joy.
ISRAEL/PALESTINE
The Fence by ANDREA MORIAH
Issa's mother. Majd's sick baby. Yusef's work. Ahmed's daughter. True stories.
Healing and Reality in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by RAFAEL REUVENY
It's time for the United States to show tough love to Israel-it helps to know there are precedents.
IMPERIALISM & WAR
Obsessed With Defamation and Slander by ZAID SHAKIR
Islam as the new fascism? Propaganda in the "war on terror" tells terrible lies to the American people.
Life After Torture and Torment by LYNN FEINERMAN
How can we end torture if we can't even face what we have already done?
Culture
MUSIC
Songs of Wounded Kinship
"Aswat: Celebrating the Golden Age of Arab Music," a concert performance by Simon Shaheen and the Aswat Orchestra
Review by DAVID SHASHA
FILM
Hollywood's Holocaust
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The Reader, Defiance, and Adam Resurrected
Review by DAVID STERRITT
BOOKS
A Terrible Book ...
Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children by Philip Shabecoff and Alice Shabecoff
Review by ROGER S. GOTTLIEB
Spiritual Democracy: Beyond Consciousness and Culture
The Participatory Turn: Spirituality, Mysticism, Religious Studies, edited by Jorge N. Ferrer and Jacob H. Sherman
Review by ANN GLEIG and NICHOLAS G. BOEVING
Tikkun Recommends
POETRY
Silence
by MOSHE DOR, translated with the author by BARBARA GOLDBERG
