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The Occupy Spring?

As the weather heats up, so will the action. But what direction should the movement take?

Richard Kim

The Purpose of Occupy Wall Street Is to Occupy Wall Street

The head of the beast can only be cut off at one place—and that’s downtown Manhattan.

Michael Moore

Occupy Is Dead! Long Live Occupy!

The cohesive communities formed in town square in the fall are over, but the movement lives on.

Ilyse Hogue

Occupy the Imagination

Occupy is the base upon which to build a mass left radical movement, one that challenges the system itself.

Bill Fletcher Jr.

What Does Democracy Look Like?

The movement isn’t about reforming capitalism, it’s about creating a democracy that’s incompatible with capitalism.

Marina Sitrin

More Than a Protest Movement

The American people aren’t looking for militants and vanguards, they want a full-service Occupy.

Todd Gitlin

Occupy! and Make Them Do It

Elections and movements don’t proceed on separate tracks.

Frances Fox Piven

Paint the Other Cheek

Debates about violence threaten to break apart the Occupy movement.

Nathan Schneider

Labor and Occupy: A Match Made in…

Despite occasional friction, unions and Occupy have found a way to live happily together.

Gabriel Thompson

Occupy the Media—and the Message

Unless the movement gets more strategic about its image, it may end up talking to itself.

Astra Taylor

Horizontal Meets Vertical; Occupy Meets Establishment

To grow, the Occupy movement will need to connect with tens of millions of ordinary Americans.

Stephen Lerner

If Vaclav Havel Met Occupy’s Human Mic…

The words of the former president of the Czech Republic resonate with the problems Occupy confronts today.
 

Jonathan Schell

Occupying the Unexpected

The heart of the movement desires a new, different society.

Arun Gupta and Michelle Fawcett

Occupy Climate Change

The same corporations that destroyed the economy are wrecking the planet. Occupy should do something about that.

Jeremy Brecher

Time to Get Out of Afghanistan

The mutual resentment between the Afghan people and the US military has broken out in the open.

The Editors

Michael Harrington and the ‘Culture Of Poverty’

The Other America offered a view of poverty that seemed designed to comfort the already comfortable.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Noted

Katrina vanden Heuvel on Dennis Kucinich, John Nichols on Rush Limbaugh and Randy Hertz on Jackson v. Hobbs and Miller v. Alabama

Various Contributors

David Grossman Speaks Out Against War With Iran

Addressing the issue publicly for the first time, Israel’s leading novelist says an attack would set in motion a “nightmare."

Larry Derfner

The Republican Finalists

Calvin Trillin

Gaddis’s Kennan: Strategies of Disparagement

Intent on blaming the cold war simply on Soviet perfidy, John Lewis Gaddis does a disservice to the subject of his biography—and to his readers.
 

Eric Alterman

Romney and Santorum: Two Faces of GOP Capitalism

There may be tension but there isn’t a class war within the Republican Party, because they’re all on the same side.

Gary Younge

If Vaclav Havel Met Occupy’s Human Mic…

The words of the former president of the Czech Republic resonate with the problems Occupy confronts today.
 

Jonathan Schell

Gaddis’s Kennan: Strategies of Disparagement

Intent on blaming the cold war simply on Soviet perfidy, John Lewis Gaddis does a disservice to the subject of his biography—and to his readers.
 

Eric Alterman

Dreaming in French: On Angela Davis

Angela Davis’s student years in France were an alchemy of discipline and distraction.

Alice Kaplan

Shelf Life

Laurent Dubois’s Hati: The Aftershocks of History.

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

The Suit

Sophie Cabot Black

Letters

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