Last 10 articles from Utne Reader http://www.utne.com/ <p>The U.S. banking system is too concentrated and too powerful....<br /></p> http://www.utne.com/Politics/Us-Banks-Political-Power-6864.aspx Jeff Severns Guntzel Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:25:03 CST <p>"Masters of Waste" is an ode to the death of the Hummer SUV brand, sung to the tune of "Masters of War," with apologies to Bob Dylan...</p> http://www.utne.com/Wild-Green/Song-for-the-Death-of-the-Hummer-6862.aspx Keith Goetzman Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:35:37 CST <p><i>Grist</i>'s list of foods not worth chewing-from canned cheeseburgers and grape-flavored apples to chicken nuggets, even the fake ones..</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> http://www.utne.com/The-Sweet-Pursuit/12-Things-You-Should-Never-Eat-6861.aspx Julie Hanus Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:37:16 CST <p>"We have experienced three wars before," says an Iraqi on election day when asked about the explosions, "so it was just the play of children that we heard"....</p> http://www.utne.com/War-and-Peace/Election-day-explosions-in-Iraq-6859.aspx Jeff Severns Guntzel Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:27:14 CST <p>A 1974 media frenzy shows what's at stake when a community goes to war over text books.</p> http://www.utne.com/Media/Another-great-conservative-christian-textbook-war.aspx by Jaimie Stevenson Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:07:18 CST <p>The bald eagle is back. But is it becoming a threat to other species?...</p> http://www.utne.com/Environment/Once-Endangered-Species-Bald-Eagle-Becomes-Threat-6854.aspx Danielle Maestretti Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:21:26 CST <p>The 2010 World Cup is just a few months away, and violent tensions are simmering under the Coca Cola and Anheuser-Busch branded landscapes of South Africa....</p> http://www.utne.com/Politics/South-Africas-World-Cup-of-Protest.aspx Bennett Gordon Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:29:07 CST <p>A little girl in Marjah, Afghanistan watches an American soldier die in front of her house. How many times has this scene been repeated?...</p> http://www.utne.com/War-and-Peace/The-Afghanistan-War-at-Your-Door-6851.aspx Jeff Severns Guntzel Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:06:32 CST <p><span class="apple-style-span">A Southerner barters with bottling companies to sample a specialty soda not available where he lives. It's amazing what pork rinds and a photo of Elvis can get you....</span></p> http://www.utne.com/GreatWriting/What-One-Man-Did-for-a-Taste-of-Moxie-Soda-6846.aspx by Elizabeth Ryan Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:54:17 CST <p>There are two Elizabeth Cooks. There's the one who performs on the Grand Ole Opry, and there's the one whose best known lyric is "sometimes it takes balls to be a woman".</p> http://www.utne.com/Arts/Elizabeth-Cook-Country-Music-Unfit-for-the-Opry-6844.aspx Keith Goetzman Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:22:43 CST