Obama Takes a Stand Against Austerity
He may not have achieved the full FDR, but the president’s State of the Union speech, like his Inaugural, displayed a welcome progressive spirit.
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March 4, 2013 Issue
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Editorial
Lessons From Mali, Algeria and Libya
Expanding Washington’s military footprint in North Africa may be well intended, but it could be destabilizing and lead to blowback.
Noted
John Nichols on the US Postal Service, Elana Leopold on rebel teachers in Seattle, Lucy McKeon on Ramarley Graham’s lega...
What’s Wrong With Obama’s Drone Policy
The White House evidently believes it can kill us in secret and never own up to the fact.
Column
‘America Doesn’t Torture’—It Kills
Even if we like President Obama, do we want him to be a one-man death panel?
The War on Drugs Is a War on Kids
The school-to-prison pipeline has emerged quickly, but the corrosive effect of criminalizing children will be felt for generations to come.
Letters
Letters
Time to ditch the word ‘choice’?; act locally; the barbarism of empire; corrections and clarification
Feature
Unions: Put Organizing First
Don’t forget that political power is intrinsically linked to organizing power.
Make Organizing a Civil Right
It’s time to tie worker rights to “Seneca Falls, Selma and Stonewall.”
What Labor Can Learn From the Obama Campaign
It’s time to harness data.
Become a Movement of All Workers
Let’s stop waiting for the government to tell us who can organize.
Time for Labor to Mobilize Immigrants
Immigration reform can be labor’s game-changer.
Can a Clinic Help Rebuild a War-Torn Nation?
Beginning with medical care and expanding to education and more, Village Health Works is on a nervy quest to rebuild Burundi from the ground up.
Hillary Clinton, State Feminist?
She vowed to make women’s rights a cornerstone of US foreign policy. How did she do?
Books & the Arts
You Are What You Click: On Microtargeting
Why privacy and anonymity are being violated online by an unstoppable process of data profiling.
Stalker
For the novelist James Lasdun, being stalked online is like “swallowing a cup of poison every morning.”
Shelf Life
Robert Bresson’s The Devil, Probably; Maurice Pilat’s Police; Leo McCary’s My Son John.
