Last Exit Magazine
Hope in the Streets of New York
When the speech ended, I asked the cabbie his name. “Mamadou”. Mamadou was born in Guinea. He immediately informed me that I would not be paying the fare. “I even just took a man to New Jersey and didn’t let him pay either. This is the greatest country on earth that you could elect a black man president!”
Manifesto for a New Economy
A hardscrabble vagabond life is not crippling if you are mentally prepared for it.
A War Based Not On Reason
On Oct. 2, 2002, Barack Obama, then a 41-year-old state senator from Illinois, publicly declared his opposition to a war in Iraq at an anti-war rally at the Federal Plaza in Chicago.
The Ballad of Bear Stearns
Scanning headlines from the collapse of one of the world’s biggest investment banks.
John Hagelin
As panic gripped Wall Street in the final days before the election, Dr. John Hagelin, physics professor and director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy at the Maharishi University of Management and former presidential candidate, announced his own billion-dollar bailout plan. In the heart of the New York’s financial district, his organization opened the Global Financial Capital of New York, aimed at teaching bankers to meditate and thereby saving us all from financial ruin.
Modern Love Is Not
Love is pain but Modern Love, as published every Sunday in the New York Times, is agony. An inventory of what needs to change.
The Nine Percent
A country that twice put George W. Bush in office is now on the verge of drastically reversing course.
- #1 Rock 'n Real Estate
- #2 Farm/Land
- #3 Showbiz
- #4 Violence & Conflict
- #5 Islands
- #6 Animals
- #7 The Subterraneans
- #8 After the Deluge
- #9 Boredom
- #10 Fear and Loathing
- #11 Medicine
- #12 Obsession
- #13 Migration
- #14 Revolution
- #15 Hidden In Plain Sight
- #16 Independence
- #17 Exploration
- #18 Education
- #19 Walls and Borders
