Marc Cooper

An internal memo written by a high-ranking supervisor at Southern California’s smog agency says up to 30 tons a day of gasoline fumes are spewing into the region‘s air because a gas station--inspection program ”is not working.“ The October 5 memo, written by inspections supervisor Ben Shaw at the South......

As he chants and marches with his buddies in front of the Herb Alpert Foundation building in Santa Monica, Ricardo -- a 23-year-old Guatemalan-born airport worker -- is armed with nothing more than a plastic, noisemaking toy trumpet. Today, he‘s a spark plug for Local 814 of the Hotel Employees......

Photo by David BaconBACK IN THE EARLY '70S, WHEN I WORKED AS A translator for Chilean President Salvador Allende and his democratic socialist government was under fierce attack from an outraged right wing, there was one slogan that became a favorite. In the last days before the 1973 military coup,......

Photo by Slobodan DimitrovWHAT A NIGHT IT HAD BEEN. AND A SCARLET streak of congealing blood on the ground confirmed the fish story that Ernesto was telling me. After the moon had risen the night before, he had hooked a whopper. The chunk of mackerel he had pushed onto his......

Photo: AP/Wide World The Clinton administration bombers and their apologists must not be allowed to represent the rest of us. They have imposed a moral barricade on the soul of America, and to that barricade Americans must go in moral opposition. —Historian Stephen F. Cohen, The Nation, May 24, 1999......