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Allison Kilkenny on Occupy Sandy, Michael Tracey on voting after the hurricane, Betsy Reed on New Hampshire's Maggie Hassa...
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November 26, 2012 Issue
Cover art by: Cover design by Milton Glaser Incorporated, art by Steven Brodner
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Editorial
Superstorm Sandy—a People’s Shock?
The recovery could be an opportunity to realign our relationship with the natural world.
A Progressive Surge
The “rising American electorate” carried Obama and a strong slate of Democrats to victory.
Column
The You’re-on-Your-Own Society
In this election, the deepest division was over whether we are all in this together.
If We Ignore Climate Change, We’re All on a Sinking Ship
If there was ever a response to Mitt Romney’s smug RNC laugh line about climate change—or to Obama’s failure to address it—Hurricane Sandy delivered.
...Letters
Letters
Teachable moment; lizard brains’ll getcha every time; good deficits, bad deficits; industrial diet; the debates next time
Feature
Can the Federal Reserve Help Prevent a Second Recession?
Chairman Ben Bernanke, who’s been sounding the alarm, is attacked constantly by the right. He and his allies need support from a mostly silent left.
Speak Out to the Federal Reserve!
Progressives falsely assume this mysterious institution is impervious to public pressure. We need to make our voices heard.
How to Build a Grassroots Power Base
Social movements must bring the creative energy of protest culture to electoral campaigns.
Books & the Arts
Can the Federal Reserve Help Prevent a Second Recession?
Chairman Ben Bernanke, who’s been sounding the alarm, is attacked constantly by the right. He and his allies need support from a mostly silent left.
A Peculiar Revolt: On Marcus Rediker’s ‘The Amistad Rebellion’
Public sympathies and political outcomes over the Amistad Africans drifted in opposite directions.
Transmigrations
Tom Tykwer and Lana and Andy Wachowski’s Cloud Atlas, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s The Law in These Parts.
