Reckonings: a journal of justice, hope and history

Center for Science in the Public Interest (Food+Health)

CSPI is doing excellent evidence-based work in showing us how to eat well, eat less, get off our asses and walk more, optimize health through good nutrition, and play a practical and responsible role in affecting public policy issues related to obvious offenders like salt and sugar, too much food and too little exercise. Limit: clearly addressed to intelligent Americans who have plenty of choices about what and how much they eat, not to those children and adults elsewhere in the world dying of starvation. Well worth subscribing to CSPI's Nutrition Action Health Letter.

"We Are Alive": Bruce Springsteen at 62

David Remnick's portrait in the current New Yorker. 

"Springsteen continues to evolve as an artist, filling one spiral notebook after another with ideas, quotations, questions, clippings, and, ultimately, new songs. His latest album, 'Wrecking Ball,' is a melodic indictment of the recessionary moment, of income disparity, emasculated workers, and what he calls 'the distance between the American reality and the American dream.' .... In his desire to extend a counter-tradition of political progressivism, Springsteen quotes from Irish rebel songs, Dust Bowl ballads, Civil War tunes, and chain-gang chants."

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/07/30/120730fa_fact_remnick