January 2013 Volume 37, Issue 01

January 2013

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Viewpoint

Gold Diggers and Indians Joel Bleifuss

Who’s Afraid of Homophobia? Achy Obejas

Feature

Corporate Death Star Jacob Marshall

Enemy of Rupert Kenneth Rapoza

Executioner-in-Chief Elizabeth Sanders

Chiquita Republic James Bargent

The Walmart Revolt David Moberg

Protest Tactics in a Warming World Eric Moll

Supermax Showdown Rebecca Burns

The War on Trafficking Rebecca Burns

Solidarity After Sandy Eric Murphy

Truce or Dare in Colombia Jeremy Kryt

Culture

In Defense of Sports Bhaskar Sunkara

Scroungers and Strivers Jane Miller

Twilight of the Twi-Hards Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Catastrophiliacs Sasha Lilley

Blinded by Thrift Store Irony Chris Lehmann

Corporate Death Star

Help fight the secretive, corporate-sponsored Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Jacob Marshall

Enemy of Rupert

An interview with independent media's white knight, Craig Aaron

Kenneth Rapoza

Executioner-in-Chief

Obama's drone attacks and the pathology of presidential power.

Elizabeth Sanders

Chiquita Republic

United Fruit's heir has again been linked to paramilitary abuses in Colombia.

James Bargent

The Walmart Revolt

The New Year promises new strategies for old labor.

David Moberg

Protest Tactics in a Warming World

What will it take to push back climate change?

Eric Moll

Supermax Showdown

AFSCME wants Illinois' Tamms Correctional Center to stay open. Activists want it closed.

Rebecca Burns

The War on Trafficking

Will California's crackdown do more harm than good?

Rebecca Burns

Solidarity After Sandy

Occupy steps up where traditional disaster relief fails.

Eric Murphy

Truce or Dare in Colombia

Violence rages even as peace talks continue.

Jeremy Kryt

The Will to Secede

With the re-election of Barack Obama, secession rears its head.

G. Pascal Zachary

In Defense of Sports

Why let capitalists have all the fun?

Bhaskar Sunkara

Gold Diggers and Indians

Republicans want to have their way with Wisconsin's buried gold, but the Anishinaabe aren't having it.

Who’s Afraid of Homophobia?

The Associated Press's decision to favor 'anti-gay' over 'homophobic' isn't as bad as some say.

Scroungers and Strivers

We are encouraged to sneer at poverty and hardship.

Twilight of the Twi-Hards

The triumph of Team Katniss.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Catastrophiliacs

For some, the end of the world can't come too soon.

Blinded by Thrift Store Irony

It makes very little sense to characterize irony, strictly speaking, as a matter of self-presentation.

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