Post-Katrina New Orleans has seen a steep rise in its homeless population, the demolition of public housing, and one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country. Does New Orleans reflect what's happening in the rest of the country? Tiffany Gardner, Human Right to Housing Director at theNational Economic and Social Rights Initiative, Sam Jackson of Mayday New Orleans, and Leilani Farha, co-leader of the International Advisory Group on Forced Evictions on the housing crisis in New Orleans.

News from Honduras has been in short supply even though the standoff between ousted leader Manuel Zelaya and Roberto Micheletti continues. July 30 marked one of the bloodiest days since the military coup and efforts to achieve some kind of power sharing agreement between the two parties and ensure Zelaya’s return have failed.

News from Honduras has been in short supply even though the standoff between ousted leader Manuel Zelaya and Roberto Micheletti continues. So what’s happening on the ground? And why aren’t we hearing about it? Rick Rowley of Big Noise Films and journalist Sandra Cuffe on recent political developments. Then, the housing crisis in New Orleans. Is it a window onto the country at large? Finally Brave New Films and 450,000 doctors on why healthcare reform matters.

Organizer and activist Marilyn Clement has died at the age of 74 after a battle with cancer. Over five tireless decades, she held positions with just about every key civil rights and peace group from the Southern Christian Leadership conference to the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Center for Constitutional Rights. "Let’s hope the Democratic Congress gets the message," she wrote in January 2007. "The voters did indeed vote for a national response to the health care crisis. They desperately need it. The Democrats must get over the chilling effect of the Newt Gingrich attack that left them trembling in their boots."

In the past few years, the economic relationship between the United States and China has changed dramatically. As Tim Fernholz writes in the American Prospect: “Chastened U.S. officials who once lectured their counterparts in [China] on financial liberalization are now humbled in front of their largest creditor, reduced to offering promises of fiscal responsibility.” It’s a strange state of affairs.

As the Obama administration seeks to come up with a proposal for trying Guantanamo detainees, one of the most important cases to challenge presidential authority may provide some lessons. There are still 240 detainees left on Guantanamo and progress to close the prison has been stymied by congress and other legal concerns.

Just one month after the death of Dr. George Tiller the Center for Reproductive Rights released a chilling report that shows abortion providers and their clinics are under siege. A four-month investigation in six states revealed that death threats, break ins, and assaults continue to impede women’s access to clinics. Rather than use Tiller’s death to make the case that doctors and their patients should be protected, the federal government has

Just one month after the death of Dr. George Tiller the Center for Reproductive Rights released a chilling report that shows abortion providers and their clinics are under siege. What can be done? Dr. Susan Wicklund and others on defending abortion rights in America. Then, Jonathan Mahler, author of The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld on the case that challenged the use of secret military courts. And New America Media on fighting foreclosures in Oakland.

What are digital rights? And what does it mean to defend them? Gigi Sohn of Public Knowledge breaks it down.

The same media moguls who profit off our social divides sing corporate Kumbaya when their profits are in peril.