January 2012 Volume 36, Issue 01

January 2012

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Viewpoint

Occupy the Electoral Process Liz Novak

The Lonesome Death of Josh Dylan Pfenning Terry J. Allen

Class Consciousness Is Back Susan J. Douglas

Feature

Tony Benn: A Voice From Labour’s Left Jane Miller

Canaries in the Data Mines Nan Levinson

Anatomy of the 1% David Moberg

Torn Apart: How the Government Separates Parents and Children Aaron Nelsen

The Poverty of School Reform Joel Handley

Dispatch

Gay Marriage Tests ‘Minnesota Nice’ Jacob Wheeler

Uncle Sam’s ‘Mal-intent’ Michael Solomon

Library of Alexandria in Danger Sanhita SinhaRoy

Private Prisons Gone Wild Beau Hodai

Will Latino Groups Choose To Occupy? Teresa Puente

Culture

Unequal Rites Remy Maldigian

What to Do About the Nanny? Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Hollywood’s Fraud-Free Fantasies Chris Lehmann

Guided by Our Grandchildren Jane Miller

Tony Benn: A Voice From Labour’s Left

The 86-year-old progressive firebrand and former British MP isn't retiring any time soon.

Jane Miller

Canaries in the Data Mines

Civil libertarians raise alarm over America's national surveillance network.

Nan Levinson

Anatomy of the 1%

Who comprises the nation's wealthiest—and most infamous—percentage?

David Moberg

Torn Apart: How the Government Separates Parents and Children

Nebraska took Maria Luis' kids, then ICE sent her back to Guatemala.

Aaron Nelsen

The Poverty of School Reform

In Chicago's African-American neighborhoods, schools change quickly—regardless of what families want.

Joel Handley

Peyote sacraments and the First Amendment.

Occupy the Electoral Process

It would be a mistake for members of the Occupy movement to ignore the 2012 elections.

What to Do About the Nanny?

Behind the female literati's neglect of its working-class sisters.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Hollywood’s Fraud-Free Fantasies

On the big and small screens, the entertainment industry fails to explain why the U.S. economy collapsed.

Guided by Our Grandchildren

It's hard not to be inspired by the youthful idealism at the center of the Occupy movement.

The Lonesome Death of Josh Dylan Pfenning

A man who is unhoused kills himself at an Occupy encampment, underscoring America's widening chasms.

Gay Marriage Tests ‘Minnesota Nice’

A constitutional amendment proposal comes to the Land of Lakes, a microcosm of the nation.

Uncle Sam’s ‘Mal-intent’

With its FAST program, the federal government is trying to read minds to fight terrorism.

Michael Solomon

Library of Alexandria in Danger

Will Egypt's newly elected Islamists respect freedom of expression and tolerate 'sacrilegious' books?

Sanhita SinhaRoy

Private Prisons Gone Wild

Legal challenges are no match for Arizona politicians determined to privatize the state's correctional services.

Class Consciousness Is Back

Once you notice inequality, you can't escape the realities of class in America.

Susan J. Douglas

Will Latino Groups Choose To Occupy?

The Latino and immigrant reaction to Occupy Wall Street has been decidedly mixed.

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