May 2011 Volume 35, Issue 05

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Viewpoint

The Debate That Wasn’t David Moberg

Vermonters Exercise Their Nuclear Option Terry J. Allen

The Muslims Are Coming! Salim Muwakkil

Feature

Young Adult Realism Jarrett Dapier

Give Americans Healthcare Leonard C. Goodman

Resist Closed Borders Isabel Garcia

Protect the Right to Choose Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Defend Social Security Heather Digby Parton

Condemn Censorship Susan J. Douglas

Stand in Solidarity Kevin O'Donnell

Save Democracy in Michigan David Green

Take the Fight to the Streets Stephen Lerner

Dispatch

The Truth About the ‘Dirty Lie’ Peter Downs

Dear Ideologist: America’s New War and Americans’ Selective Outrage Pete Karman

America’s Blue Chip Tax Cheats Christopher Moraff

Losing Latin America Steve Ellner

Foreclosure Crisis… and Opportunity Jeremy Gantz

Culture

Interns of the World, Unite! Ross Perlin

All Changes Great and Small Jane Miller

The Other Labor Struggle Eleanor J. Bader

Chile’s One-Man Truth Commission Michael Atkinson

Twilight of the Social Critics Chris Lehmann

Young Adult Realism

Walter Dean Myers aims to mentor America’s black youth.

Jarrett Dapier

Give Americans Healthcare

President Obama's healthcare reform bill may be undermined by lobbyists and lawsuits.

Leonard C. Goodman

Resist Closed Borders

We must oppose "reforms" perpetuating the lie that immigration is a law enforcement issue.

Isabel Garcia

Protect the Right to Choose

A barrage of legislation aims to circumvent the fact that abortion is legal.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Defend Social Security

Democrats must refuse to mess with the retirement program.

Heather Digby Parton

Condemn Censorship

Despite NPR's timidity and capitulation to the Right, we need to support public radio more than ever.

Susan J. Douglas

Stand in Solidarity

If conservatives take away unions, they will take away America's middle class.

Kevin O'Donnell

Save Democracy in Michigan

The state's "Emergency Manager" law is more insidious than anything in Wisconsin.

David Green

Take the Fight to the Streets

To build a just society, we must make America’s plutocrats very, very uncomfortable.

Stephen Lerner

Interns of the World, Unite!

We have nothing to lose but our résumés.

All Changes Great and Small

It's impossible to chart change when it happens so fast.

The Other Labor Struggle

In defense of midwifery.

Eleanor J. Bader

Chile’s One-Man Truth Commission

Patricio Guzmán's latest film extends his 35-year yowl of rage.

Michael Atkinson

Twilight of the Social Critics

David Brooks' latest book, The Social Animal, does not bode well for post-crisis America.

The Debate That Wasn’t

The Truth About the ‘Dirty Lie’

Anti-coal activists are adopting more radical tactics to get their message across to public officials.

Dear Ideologist: America’s New War and Americans’ Selective Outrage

America’s Blue Chip Tax Cheats

The country's largest corporations avoid their fair share. US Uncut is on the case.

Christopher Moraff

Vermonters Exercise Their Nuclear Option

Losing Latin America

America's 'backyard' has never been so united and independent of U.S. influence.

Foreclosure Crisis… and Opportunity

Months after the 'robo-signing' scandal, states are negotiating with banks—and activists are keeping the pressure on.

The Muslims Are Coming!

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