The Walmart Rebellion

This year’s historic strike wave is an indictment not just of the retail giant’s business model but of our broken labor laws.

The Editors

How Students in San Jose Raised the Minimum Wage

A regional college class made social justice happen on November 6.

Gabriel Thompson

Noted

John Nichols on Jesse Jackson Jr.'s legacy, Steven Hsieh on human rights in Burma, Lucy McKeon on prosecuting stop-and-fri...

Various Contributors

How Mergermania Is Destroying Book Publishing

The merger of Penguin and Random House is part of a trend that has been deadly for literary authors and serious nonfiction.

André Schiffrin

A Short Message to Those Who Have Signed Petitions Asking to Secede From the Union

Calvin Trillin

Rupert Murdoch and the ‘Jewish Owned Press’

The Fox News owner resorted to an anti-Semitic canard in attacking alleged media bias against Israel.

Eric Alterman

The Irony of Right-Wing Secessionist Fantasies

Obama’s re-election inspired residents of states like Louisiana and Alabama to push for independence from the rest of the country. They should be careful what they wish fo...

Gary Younge

Letters

At last we exhaled…; who brought down the Berlin Wall?; Mike Davis on Susie Linfield on Fred Halliday; Linfield’s reply

Our Readers and Susie Linfield