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Photo by Bill Hackwell, courtesy of ANSWERcoalition.org

Futile Resistance?

As President Obama orders 17,000 additional troops in Afghanistan, the anti-war movement finds itself trying to mobilize against one of its own. It won’t be easy.


Issue 16 Editors’ Note

Independence


Putting the Free into Freedom

Why Nick Rosen, the founder of the off-grid.net site, is coming to America in his search for the perfect off-grid existence.


art Dan Graham performing Performer/Audience/Mirror at P.S.1 Institute for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY, 1977 (Photo courtesy of the artist)

You Are Not Alone

This summer go out and watch yourself watching other people watch you watching other people watching you at a new survey of Dan Graham’s work currently on view at the Whitney.


place Horatio Gates

New York’s Forgotten Revolutionary

Why at 5 a.m. every July 4th, I visit the lost grave of Horatio Gates, the unknown general who won the most important battle in the American Revolution.


Beyond Independence

We are most free when we are most bound to others.


A casket is carried through the Shia neighborhood of Shoala north of Baghdad after a US missile landed in a crowded market killing more than 50 people, including 15 children, and wounding many more.  (Photo by Kael Alford)

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

One of the few independent photographers in Baghdad during the start of the Iraq War reflects on what it means to glimpse the battlefield on one’s own terms.


The Madagascar Institute celebrates it's 10th anniversary. (Photos by Kramer O'Neill)

Free Spirits

Brooklyn’s Madagascar Institute art collective celebrated their 10th anniversary by reenacting a pivotal naval battle in Prospect Park. In paddle boats.


flavor Heirloom tomatoes. (Photo by Anne Dailey)

We Say Tomato

Heirloom tomatoes are just one of the ways that Americans have recently begun to declare their gastro-independence from the industrialized food state.