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Departments

LETTERS

THE CONTRARIAN: Seventy-Five as the New Forty-Five

Editorials

2010 Elections: Why Have the Democrats Lost Popular Support?
What happened to “change we can believe in”? The modern Democrats’ perennial problemis lack of clarity and courage in pursuing a progressive worldview.

SPECIAL SECTION: CREATING A CARING SOCIETY

ESRA: THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION

Q&A on the ESRA

SPEECHES FROM THE NETWORK OF SPIRITUAL PROGRESSIVES CONFERENCE

ESRA: An Opportunity to Reshape the World by DENNIS KUCINICH
What It Will Take to Return the Globe to 350 by BILL MCKIBBEN
Obama and a Foreign Policy of Generosity by KEITH ELLISON
The New Zionist Imperative Is to Tell Israel the Truth by JEREMY BEN-AMI
Healing Is Not a Business by MARGARET FLOWERS
The Race to Save Civilization by LESTER BROWN
Yankee Doodle Faced Big Oil by ARTHUR WASKOW
Suicidal vs. Life-Giving Religious Narratives by BRIAN MCLAREN
A Politics Based on Soul Force by MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
How Closed are “Closed Minds”? by SHARON WELCH

Politics and Society

The Spirit of Sartre by PETER GABEL
Jean Paul Sartremay have taught us that “Hell is other people,” but his later work shows us that other people can be the source of our completion.

Economics for a Global Community: A Conversation with Joseph Stiglitz
Oy. Corruption has consequences. For BP—and all of us—it’s time to renew our covenant with YHWH.

Cuba Sí by PHIL WOLFSON
For those who loved and supported the revolution, it’s not been an easy road.

Rethinking Religion

Ever Dying, Never Dead—That’s Life! by BRADLEY SHAVIT ARTSON
If we understand that during our lifetimes we will always be dying, perhaps we can learn how to live.

High Holiday Workbook
Repentance is good for the soul, and for our activism. Use this workbook—whether you’re Jewish or not—to reflect on this past year and how you can deepen your life in the next one.

Why a New Translation of the New Testament? by WILLIS BARNSTONE
Because the old translation speaks of Lord Jesus, not Rabbi Yeshua. That identity theft, perpetrated by translators, has had terrible consequences.

Queer Spirituality & Politics

A Progressive Religious Agenda Toward Gay Rights:
A Response to “Ten Reasons Why Gay Rights Is a Religious Issue”
by NOACH DZMURA
Essentialist arguments may win compassion from heterosexuals, but they don’t reflect reality. Let’s render marginal the idea that homosexuality is sin.

Response to Noach Dzmura by JAY MICHAELSON
Dzmura’s arguments stand no chance of being adopted by the American mainstream any time soon. If we want to “move the needle” of public opinion, we need to make more moderate ones.

Culture

Film

Lebanon, 1982: Facts and Films

Waltz with Bashir and Lebanon
Review by RALPH SELIGER

BOOKS

Eco-Enchantment and the Limits of Conservation

A Reenchanted World: The Quest for a New Kinship With Nature
by James William Gibson
Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples
by Mark Dowie
Reviews by ROGER S. GOTTLIEB

Undiscovered No Longer