Our Best Hope: Socialism in the 21st Century

The Church at the Crossroads

In this print edition...

• Our Best Hope

• Fallout: Reflections on the 60th Anniversary of the Trinity Test

• A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Globalization

• Protest Politics 101: An Interview with Francis Fox-Piven

• Music Review: Devils and Dust, Bruce Springsteen; Hearts in Mind, Nanci Griffith

• July's Letters (updated frequently)

• July's Poetry

• Nobody Asked Me, But...

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For a movement to gain power and create a new society – and that’s what we are all about in the end – political imagination as well as historical memory are vital at every turn. For many progressives and left minded people, however, given our nation’s present political conjuncture, this may not seem like a propitious moment for dreaming and imagining.

July 16, 2005, will be the 60th anniversary of the plutonium-fueled atomic bomb, tested at White Sands, New Mexico. On July 15th and 16th the Los Alamos Study Group, a nuclear-weapons watchdog, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, will hold poetry readings and a silent auction in Santa Fe and Albuquerque.

The illegal and criminal invasion of Iraq continues to be a drain on US imperialism complicating its ability to respond more forcefully to North Korea, Zimbabwe and other perceived "outposts of tyranny."

Two artists rarely seen as part of the same music scene released new compact disc albums early this year. Their highly personal and deeply political music bonds them in my mind. Both artists were born a little over 50 years ago, Nanci Griffith in Texas and Bruce Springsteen in New Jersey.