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How the Austerity Class Rules Washington

A powerful, bipartisan coalition of deficit hawks has manufactured a center-right consensus that dominates the Beltway.

Ari Berman

Is the Perfect Factory Possible?

Anti-sweatshop activists are embracing Alta Gracia, a company that is going head-to-head with brands like Nike to sell socially responsible clothing on college campuses.

Peter Dreier

Calling All Liberals: It’s Time to Fight

As Occupy Wall Street goes global, we must define a bold, clear vision going forward. The stakes have never been higher.

Benjamin R. Barber

Cuba Rethinks the Revolution

Under Raúl Castro, major economic reforms are shrinking the state-run economy and making room for a greatly expanded private sector.

Michelle Chase

OWS to Supercommittee: Accountability, Not Austerity!

As the Congressional budget supercommittee deliberates, fiscal hawks are calling for “tough choices.” The 99 percent are demanding economic justice.

The Editors

Occupy Wall Street: The Beginning Is Here

Its power lies not in any specific demands, endorsements or alliances but in its direct appeal to the hearts and minds of the population at large.

Jonathan Schell

Noted.

Liza Featherstone on Walmart’s efforts to “empower” women, Collier Meyerson on the inconvenient truth behind Waiting for “Superman” and Henri Picciotto on censorship by the Jewish Federations of North America

Various Contributors

Organize and Occupy!

Groups long committed to challenging inequality and the power of big banks are joining the Occupy movement, in a mutually reinforcing relationship.

Stephen Lerner

We Are All Occupiers Now: The Mainstreaming of OWS

Don’t be left behind: everyone from Jeffrey Sachs to Deepak Chopra and Suze Orman is jumping on the Occupy Wall Street wagon.

Katha Pollitt

Can Occupy Wall Street Succeed as a Leaderless Movement?

What the legacies of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, Derrick Bell and Steve Jobs could teach the protesters.

Melissa Harris-Perry

An Inaugural Address for Herman Cain

Calvin Trillin

Vacant, Limpid, Angelic: On Willem de Kooning

MoMA’s de Kooning retrospective.

Barry Schwabsky

In the Clear: On Scientology

The body of the church of Scientology is not well. Will its main legacy be its contribution to US tax law?

Mark Oppenheimer

The Edge of Comprehension: On Steven Millhauser

With We Others, Steven Millhauser remains the master of the inevitable ending in American fiction.
 

Aaron Thier

Letters

Do we expect more of a black president?

Our Readers

Puzzle No. 3212

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto