Down with urban blight! Cultivating public land, as the author of "On Guerrilla Gardening" explains, is nothing short of a revolutionary act.
By Lenora Todaro Jul 30, 2008
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I could be an actor or a writer or even a therapist, but nothing seems to be worth all the work and commitment.
By Cary Tennis
March 12, 2007
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Super Voice Girls, we salute you!
By Andrew Leonard
October 17, 2006
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Leave your cellphone, bring some fruit, and protest -- with kindness -- what has happened to our country.
By Anne Lamott
March 29, 2006
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Gil Scott-Heron reads poems that address racism and the role of the black minister in America.
Read by Gil Scott-Heron
November 2, 2000
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What the future capital of United Europe owes to one intense night of opera.
By Burt Wolf
April 28, 2000
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We asked for grand plans and we got more than a few.
March 27, 2000
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The increasingly humorless dot-com industry inspires a DIY revolution -- and lots of witty domain names.
By Kaitlin Quistgaard
March 23, 2000
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We invite readers to respond to the Family for Sale series with grand plans, brainstorms and blueprints for a better tomorrow.
By Jennifer Foote Sweeney and Amy Benfer
March 3, 2000
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From Havana to Santiago, Cuba steps into the next millennium with hope for a new kind of revolution.
By Rachel Louise Snyder
February 24, 2000
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Our rental car wheezed through Cuba at the millennium. A new century on the horizon, Fidel's nation gathered up its last one right beneath our wheels.
By Rachel Louise Snyder
February 23, 2000
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Will the overwhelming number of young voters tip the scales in the elections? Or will their apathy prove a greater threat to reformers than the mullahs?
By Vivienne Walt
February 18, 2000
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RCN, the up-and-coming fiber optic network, tries -- a little too hard -- to get us to think of it as a telecom revolutionary.
By Janelle Brown
October 7, 1999
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Tara Bahrampour, author of "To See and See Again: A Life in Iran and America," talks about balancing between two cultures and glimpsing the crumbling boundaries and lush center of Iranian life.
By Fiona Morgan
March 8, 1999
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Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchú, accused of misrepresenting her life, tries to simultaneously argue that she didn't lie and that if she did, it doesn't matter.
By James Poniewozik
February 12, 1999
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How left-wing propagandists, a fellow-traveling Nobel committee and a corrupt media perpetrated a monstrous hoax.
By David Horowitz
January 11, 1999
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Filmmaker Stephen Talbot fires back at David Horowitz over his PBS documentary '1968.'
By Stephen Talbot
September 1, 1998
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Belly buttons, miniskirts and lascivious behavior in post-revolutionary Iran.
By Drew Fellman
July 27, 1998
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Gary Kamiya reviews two new books of revisionist culture criticism from The Baffler editors and asks: Was the '60s the fraud -- or its critics?
By Gary Kamiya
December 22, 1997
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The country's peasants are staging violent protests and threatening the communist leaders' regime.
By Thi Lam
October 15, 1997
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Who is Laurent Kabila? And will he be better or worse for Africa's third largest country?
By Jonathan Broder
May 21, 1997
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A black militant's exile in Castro's Cuba
By Arthur Allen
April 6, 1996
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Think the conservative revolution is dead? Think again, says Grover Norquist, the mastermind of the "leave us alone" coalition.
By Derrick DePledge
March 23, 1996
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American Family Association boycotts Disney
By Scott Rosenberg
December 2, 1995