A Soiled Picture of Art and Labor
The deeply unequal art world’s current economic model simply isn’t working, as the story of one public art effort demonstrates quite clearly.
Coal, Oil, Gas: None Shall Pass
A growing movement across the Pacific Northwest is gumming up the fossil-fuel works.
World Capital of Weather Wimps
When the going gets cold, make the most of it.
The Enduring Impact of Andy Shallal’s Mayoral Run
In a money-drenched political system that often requires multiple candidacies prior to winning, Andy Shallal sowed some seeds for the future.
Views Roundup with IPS – Immigration Reform, Trayvon Martin, Inequality, Edward Snowden, more
A weekly roundup of what IPS personalities are talking about.
AIDS in Africa and Black America
The United States should take a lesson from Africa in dealing with its AIDS epidemic.
On D.C.’s U Street, Can’t We All Just Swagger Along?
Restaurants along U Street are meant to be community cultural hubs that preserve the legacy and history of the District and uplift racial and cultural connections.
I Don’t Like Ike’s Memorial
If you’re going to do something that big, don’t put it on the National Mall.
When Number Two Acts like Number One
Washington can’t seem to grasp a decline, that the rest of the world sees, in its once undisputed world power. It cannot keep its home in good repair, but it still acts as if it can make other nations bend to its will.
The Honduran Accords
Can an agreement in the Central American nation satisfy both left and right?
Book Event: David Bacon’s ‘Illegal People’
Washington Whistleblower Week
Lt. Watada-an American Hero
If we all had Lt. Watada’s courage, we could finally facilitate an end to the Iraq War.