The McCain-Palin ticket is dead in the water, sundered by its allegiance to the Bush administration's disaster capitalism and foundering on a strategy basically designed to piss off rednecks and ignore everyone else. That's not a winning blueprint, and thank the Big Bang for that. Rather, it's political suicide and...

Saul Williams is an artist whose tentacles reach into every sphere of entertainment. He's a spoken-word wonder, an actor, a musician, an entertainment visionary and, most recently an accidental pitchman for Nike. It's a curious move: Williams' tune "List of Demands" is an anti-poverty anthem that blasts hyperconsumption...

Adam Mansbach is a dude of many hats. A hip-hop poet that can recite histories old-school and new without missing a beat, especially in his acid satire Angry Black White Boy. An author who lives in Berkeley, grew up in Boston and can freestyle in Brooklyn without weak...

Last July, I took a novice's look at hedge funds, housing, gambling and America's ass-backwards foreign policy and declared what I thought to be the obvious. The spiel landed on Alternet in the form of a supposedly sensational article called The Crash of 1929: Are We on the Verge...

"I'm overwhelmed/I'm on repeat," Michael Stipe sings on "Hollow Man," probably the quietest song on R.E.M.'s incredible, jagged release Accelerate, due out March 31 to the rest of the world and America on April Fool's Day. It's a potent dose of post-millennial anger that...

I'm not going to predict that Obama sweeps the rest of the states as surely as he has in Iowa's Democratic primary, especially on the eve of New Hampshire's tally. But I am going to say that Hillary Clinton continues to bark up the wrong tree. And the reason is...

I've been trying to stay out of the so-called "horse race" aspect of the 2008 election, mostly because it smells like horse ass. But you have got to give someone their due when they go to work for you, and so far only Christopher Dodd has...

I have bad news for you. American currency is not what it used to be. And we are no longer a beacon of freedom to the oppressed of Earth, no matter what Bush and Cheney are selling. Disaster capitalism. Hostile takeovers. Terminology hiding the same authoritarian...

Lost in a haze of hyperreal distractions and the weakening of our body politic, we forget in fact how our planet came into being: Violent eruptions, long periods of stability, sometimes equilibrium. But its eruptions were serious, and nothing to shrug off....

The War on Drugs, just like the War on Terror, drags on pointlessly. Wasting billions of dollars, millions of lives, and precious time with no progress made and no goals met. And not just because the Founding Fathers themselves grew hemp either.

Rather, declaring war on anything,...

First Karl Rove, and now Alberto Gonzales. The Bush administration is clearing brush from its pathetic ranks, but let's not fool ourselves: They're not doing it to save face. Or because they finally saw the error of their ways.

George W. Bush may be many...

Back in 2003, my wife and I were lucky enough to work with Viggo Mortensen and his indie publisher Perceval Press on a book calling out the war in Iraq as a mammoth clusterbungle before it really got started. It...

While Morphizm and others not on the continental grift have been trying to tell everyone from the casual American internet surfer to Nancy Pelosi herself, Bush isn't playing the power trip for popularity and effect. He's playing it...

Dearest Keith:

This is coming from a guy who only watched SportsCenter because you and Dan were on it. As well as a dude who couldn't stand watching you parrot the Lewinsky coverage in the 1990s because, as it obvious to everyone else in the world now, it...

Man, Cheney's "Go Fuck Yourself" insult has crazy staying power. You can use it for just about anything. Which is probably the same way George Bush feels about the U.S. Constitution. He can use it for anything.

His latest hyperreality...