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How US Policies Fueled Mexico’s Great Migration

Impoverished by NAFTA, residents of Veracruz crossed the border to work in Smithfield’s Tar Heel slaughterhouse. Now, they’re condemned as “illegals.”

David Bacon

Labor Takes Aim at Walmart—Again

Organizers have found a new approach to promoting workers’ rights at the retail giant. And it seems to be working.

Spencer Woodman

Mexico’s Anti-Abortion Backlash

In just two years, half the country’s states have passed extreme fetal-rights amendments.

Mary Cuddehe

Electoral Dysfunction, 2012

Awash in Super PAC money, defined by negative TV ads, degraded by dumbed-down media and poisoned by voter suppression—this is not what democracy looks like.

The Editors

Guantánamo: Ten Years and Counting

With Obama’s signing of the National Defense Authorization Act, the prison becomes a permanent fixture.

David Cole

Noted.

Jamelle Bouie on Ben Nelson’s terrible tenure, Josh Eidelson on the NLRB’s new election rules, plus: battling ALEC in Virginia

Various Contributors

Automatic Pundit Readjustment After Each Primary Vote

Calvin Trillin

Obama and the Indefinite Detention of US Citizens

With the signing of the National Defense Authorization Act, the president has brought Guantánamo-style justice to the United States.

Alexander Cockburn

Ron Paul’s Strange Bedfellows

He’s against most of what we’re for. What is it with progressive mancrushes on right-wing Republicans?

Katha Pollitt

Anxious and Paralyzed: On Spahr, Gordon, Moschovakis and Ossip

Books by four poets about big modern systems whose results and failures seem inescapable.

Stephen Burt

Black Candle

Osip Mandelstam

Last Year’s Model: On Simon Reynolds

A critic of pop’s retro turn can’t shake his own strain of pop nostalgia.

Sara Marcus

Extremely

Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Wim Wenders’s Pina.

Stuart Klawans

Letters

Dwight MacDonald, Jana Prikryl

Our Readers and Jana Prikryl

Puzzle No. 3222

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto