‘Muslim Rage’ & US Policy
There’s much more behind the demonstrations than anger at one bigoted YouTube clip.
Print Magazine
October 8, 2012 Issue
Cover art by: Cover illustration by Edward Sorel, design by Milton Glaser Incorporated
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Editorial
What’s Missing From the Chicago Strike Debate
As Obama touts his education reforms and neoliberals face off with teachers, hardly anyone is talking about the real problems besetting America’s public schools.
Noted
Katrina vanden Heuvel on predistribution, John Nichols on an anti-union law smack-down, Lucy McKeon on the fight for justice i...
South Africa’s ‘Marikana Moment’
The massacre of striking miners marked a tipping point, with the African National Congress moving closer to becoming just another party in power, rather than a liberation moveme...
Column
The Problem of Conservative ‘Intellectuals’
As Mitt Romney’s campaign descends into increasingly indefensible terrain, a few right-wing stalwarts are still standing by their man.
Casualties in the Education Reform Wars
The stakes are high for students unlucky enough to be caught in the crossfire.
Letters
Feature
Isolating America’s Workers
The pendulum swings hard against the rights of labor.
One Nation by and for the Corporations
Courts that shelter the powerful and evict the little guy.
‘Citizens United’ and the Corporate Court
Giving corporations the inalienable right to buy elections.
The 1 Percent Court
A Court for the money power, and our democracy is at stake.
Books & the Arts
The Unconquered Flame: On Robert Duncan
A new biography shows how the poet Robert Duncan fed a line backward into the labyrinthine history of human imagination.
Last Picture Shows: Film and Obsolescence
Until the final reel of celluloid is shot and projected, will every film’s primary subject be film itself?
Rat Bastard: On Bruce Conner
The shadows were the elective habitat of the artist Bruce Conner, who thought true knowledge was shrouded in secrecy.
