Works Progress Administration

Shepard Fairey

From The Cradle To The Grave--And Back Again

Frank revives a labor cry, 'The Cradle Will Rock'; 'Urinetown' whizzes through town

Crippled Creek

After a century of empty promises, Minneapolis officials are finally poised to spruce up the polluted waterway that meanders through the city's north side. What changed? The buying power of the people who will live there.

The Age of Work

Photographers Lewis W. Hine and David Parker frame the debate over child labor

The Red Curtain

A new play, "Project 891", puts the spotlight on New Deal theater, HUAC, and the mother of all arts-funding debates.

Emotional Activism

Naked Lunch: Anonymous workers eat identical sandwiches in George Tooker's civil-rights-era painting,

Welfare reform through the ages: a talk with Frances Fox Piven

Naked Lunch: Anonymous workers eat identical sandwiches in George Tooker's civil-rights-era painting,