Assange: “I am mentioned in over one tenth of all the contexts of all the rapes that have ever happened that have been documented on the internet.”

In its early days, WikiLeaks dropped leaks from around the world and helped Obama clear his name as he campaigned for president. Doesn’t this repudiate the notion that it is strictly an anti-U.S. outfit?.

We all need to push to have exclusionary laws changed; to challenge our own and society’s attitudes about ex-offenders; and to take a chance in whatever way we can on some kid once locked-up now locked-out of the world.

A diverse group of activists from both sides of the Canadian-U.S. border declares the Great Lakes a common endowment.

Maura R. O’Connor’s “The Toad,” featured this month, exposes the rapid disappearance of a species of toad along a dammed-up river in Tanzania. Here she lists books she considers essential for environmental writers to know.

In California cities like San Jose, voters this election passed ballot measures to weaken the retirement system for public workers. These photographs in this post are meant to inspire some obvious questions. Can people do this work, if they’re then cast adrift once they’re too old? What would happen to all of us if they didn’t do these jobs?

Pat Tillman refused to be a one-dimensional icon, and yet even after his death, that’s exactly what the American army tried to use him for.

152 journalists declare their loyalty to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in an open letter.

When it comes to climate change, Australia’s political track record, while bumpy, provides the kind of example the United States should follow.

After the success of our post on gender diversity here at Guernica Mag, we thought it only fitting to inspect where we stand on other forms of diversity.

Old-style American isolationism had everything to do with avoiding “entangling alliances” and conflicts abroad. Today, Americans are once again an isolationist people, but with a twist. To end our wars, we must first endure their Gorgon stare.

The American midterm election—in Afghanistan.

An opportunity for the non-witch to brush up on her knowledge of the Constitution.

A video released on Al Jazeera reveals US complicity in torture in Iraq.

Bob Woodward claims that he is no more than a passive chronicler of events. Yet he has played a significant role in the unfolding history he reports. Whether that benefits the public is something else entirely.

If professors published their work for the public, everyone would have access to better, more reliable information.

Why the pro-athlete-turned-politician tends to strike out.

“It’s a perfect storm. And I’m not talking about the impending dangers facing Democrats. I’m talking about the dangers facing our democracy.”

In the wake of the newly-released documentary Waiting for Superman, are charter schools really the logical alternative to public school systems?

Bravo’s reality show Work of Art highlights the performative nature of not just reality television or art, but of our very culture.

Whatever skills we may lack when it comes to predicting the future, all things must end, including the American war state and our strange state of war. The question is: Can our over-armed global mission be radically downsized before it downsizes us?

War-fighting handbooks are in. Gimmick covers designed for the warzone are in. Analysis about whether to fight such wars, investigation of the true costs of war to those most affected, plans to end bloody costly wars: all definitely out.

After more than twenty months of White House insistence that the only useful role for progressive canaries is to keep singing the president’s tune, the electoral coal mine is filled with the political equivalent of carbon monoxide and methane.

We cannot decry the state of criminal violence in our cities, without acknowledging how corruption in the justice system prevents us from cooperating with and supporting the efforts of the thousands of honest cops and prosecutors.

By making part of Xiao’s work readily available in Chinese, Two Dollar Radio hopes to expose those living under the censorship of Beijing’s heavy hand to Xiao’s story.

A pipeline connecting Turkmenistan and China is the “Silk Road” of the twenty first century, and suggests that the race for natural resources might define a new global order.