Amass has covered a wide range of topics. In recent issues: labor in the new millenium; terrorism and foreign policy; crises on Wall Street; corporate power; the new ecology consciousness; the state of anti-globalization movements; oil and the Iraq War; the Three Strikes Law; neighborhood struggles in LA; money and politics; depleted uranium and new war weapons; culture and changing lifestyles; independent film and media. Contributors have included Gore Vidal; Arianna Huffington; Giovanni Arrighi; Sandra Tsing-Loh; Susanna Hecht; Tom Hayden; Tim Robbins; Marc Copper; Kenneth Anger; Peter Dale Scott; Gerry Fialka; Peter Wollen; Harold Meyerson; Sonja Ebron; Kim Moody; Ed Soja; Michael Parenti; Robie Conal; Sheila Bernard; Csaba Polony; Erwin Chemerinsky; John Powers; Nigel Harris; Sheila Bernard; Jill Stewart; Sandow Birk; Stephen Pyne; Tom Mertes; Peter and Lisa Cunningham; Patricia Cunliffe; and Jamie Court.

Published by the Society For Popular Democracy, the 96-page magazine includes essays, articles, interviews, visual commentary, editorials, and reviews of books and media. Distributed internationally, its editorial group includes Noam Chomsky, Mary Ann Dolcemascolo, Van Every, Nancy Fraser, Susanna Hecht, Fredric Jameson, Martin Jay, Mark Mayhew, Erika Rothenberg, Elena Sanchez, and Peter Wollen.