April 2011 Volume 35, Issue 04

April 2011

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Viewpoint

Hold Them Accountable: Tenure or No Tenure Eleanor Nicholson

Hold Them Accountable: Merit Pay for Congress James Thindwa

Let Us Now Praise Gov. Scott Walker Susan J. Douglas

Let’s Share the Sacrifice Joel Bleifuss

AIPAC’s Country, Right or Wrong Leonard C. Goodman

Feature

Was Rahm Right? Steven Hill

Quilting a Movement Barbara Ransby

Killer Fashion: An Industry in Denial Libby Rodenbough

Fox Populi Joel Bleifuss

Fired for the Crime of Working David Bacon

Capitol Offensive David Moberg

‘People Are Pissed Off’: An Interview With Leo Gerard David Moberg

In Celebrities We Trust: An Excerpt From ‘Back to Our Future’ David Sirota

Dispatch

Israel’s Left in Disarray Ralph Seliger

Vermont’s Single-Payer Salvation Lauren Else

Drafting Honduran Democracy Jeremy Kryt

The Secret Life of Economists Micah Uetricht

Dear ITT Ideologist: Cliff Notes on American Democracy Pete Karman

Culture

The House of Reptile Lovers Dawn Starin

Zora Neale Hurston’s Lost Decade Eve Ottenberg

Meet Joe, the World’s Most Original Filmmaker Michael Atkinson

Digging the Underground Press Richard Greenwald

Say Yes to Peer Pressure Steve Weinberg

Was Rahm Right?

If progressive don't realize how much they've been had by President Obama, they are "f---ing retarded."

Steven Hill

Quilting a Movement

Real movements for social change need many grassroots leaders—not one charismatic politician.

Barbara Ransby

Killer Fashion: An Industry in Denial

Eating disorders are rampant, and models are dying.

Libby Rodenbough

Frances Fox Piven on how to grow the movement, and Glenn Beck-inspired death threats.

Joel Bleifuss

Fired for the Crime of Working

Not much has changed for undocumented workers since Obama took office.

David Bacon

Capitol Offensive

In Madison and beyond, unions and their allies fight for fundamental workers’ rights.

David Moberg

‘People Are Pissed Off’: An Interview With Leo Gerard

After attending protests in Madison, Wis., the United Steelworkers union president talks strategy.

David Moberg

In Celebrities We Trust: An Excerpt From ‘Back to Our Future’

How Michael Jordan and the 1980s reshaped American politics.

David Sirota

The House of Reptile Lovers

Snakes, lizards and crocodiles should be worshipped—not fashion accessories.

Zora Neale Hurston’s Lost Decade

The Harlem Renaissance writer's obscure and impoverished final years are being rehabilitated.

Meet Joe, the World’s Most Original Filmmaker

2011 has hardly begun, but Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is probably the year's best film.

Michael Atkinson

Hold Them Accountable: Tenure or No Tenure

Eleanor Nicholson

Digging the Underground Press

The Sixties' scrappy alternative newspapers were the oxygen that kept the era's movements going.

Richard Greenwald

Israel’s Left in Disarray

Ehud Barak's split from Labor is not his first blow against the party he led twice.

Hold Them Accountable: Merit Pay for Congress

Vermont’s Single-Payer Salvation

The Green Mountain State is poised to abolish most forms of private health insurance.

Let Us Now Praise Gov. Scott Walker

Susan J. Douglas

Drafting Honduran Democracy

As repression continues, the National Front of the Popular Resistance plans a constitutional convention.

Let’s Share the Sacrifice

The Secret Life of Economists

Conflicts of interest throughout the Dismal Science are more common than you know.

Dear ITT Ideologist: Cliff Notes on American Democracy

Say Yes to Peer Pressure

Join the Club offers the 'social cure'

AIPAC’s Country, Right or Wrong

Leonard C. Goodman

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