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Secretly Canadian (2011)
On Slave Ambient, Granduciel's love of tranced-out, yet strangely filtered arena rock jams is on full display.
By JONATHAN DONALDSON | August 09, 2011

Are Civil (Liberties) Unions America's Best Hope?

Freedom Watch
Ron Paul and Barney Frank make odd bedfellows, but one hopes theirs is more than a one-night-stand.
By HARVEY A. SILVERGLATE AND DANIEL R. SCHWARTZ | July 13, 2011

Weapons in the War for Drugs

Big Fat Whale
Weapons in the War for Drugs: A dispatch from the Marijuana Unit.
By BRIAN MCFADDEN | April 13, 2011

Why did the liberals help construct our concentration camps for the poor?

Prison complex
Why did middle-class liberals, historically the leaders of compassionate social reform, allow, with nary a peep, the construction of our colossal Prison Complex? Two books, one new and one a few years old, explain why liberals not only went along with this right-wing, racist project — they encouraged it.
By LANCE TAPLEY | September 08, 2010

Making change

John Sinclair vs. ‘the dictates of conventional society’
John Sinclair’s poem “Ask Me Now” leaves little question about the poet’s values.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | April 21, 2010

Injustice department

Letters to the Boston editor, October 2, 2009
Thank you Harvey Silverglate for shining a light on our criminal-injustice system with your new book Three Felonies a Day. And thank you Peter Kadzis for a great interview.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | September 30, 2009

Kurt Vile | Childish Prodigy

Matador (2009)
Kurt Vile's punny name, as well as the title of his latest full-length album, bespeaks low-art subversion.
By ZETH LUNDY | September 28, 2009

Politics of pain

Rhode Island follows through on medical marijuana
When it comes to the legalization of medical marijuana in Rhode Island, the question has generally been when — not if — it would happen.
By IAN DONNIS | January 07, 2006