August 2012 Volume 36, Issue 08

August 2012

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Viewpoint

Making Obama’s Kill List Leonard C. Goodman

A Slip of the Tongue? Joel Bleifuss

Feature

Evicting the Homeless Hank Kalet

The Patrons of Veracruz Joseph Sorrentino

Beyond Gay Marriage Rebecca Burns

How to Create a Cult Michael Atkinson

Feminism…What’s Next? ITT Contributors

Wrong Union For the Job David Moberg

Red Squares Everywhere Sarah Jaffe

Syriza Rising Richard Seymour

Smashing the Spinning Plates Slavoj Žižek

A Dreamer, Deferred Ruth Samuelson

Culture

The Scourge of Meritocracy Jane Miller

Oprah-iate of the People Bhaskar Sunkara

The Bradbury Chronicles Ron Dorfman

Evicting the Homeless

Civil rights for homeless communities wane across the country.

Hank Kalet

The Patrons of Veracruz

The women of La Patrona provide sustenance for migrants making a wearying train-top journey across Mexico.

Joseph Sorrentino

Beyond Gay Marriage

Is the LGBT movement walking down the aisle to nowhere?

Rebecca Burns

How to Create a Cult

In Kumaré, Vikram Gandhi sets out to determine whether a fake guru could be just as convincing as a “real” guru.

Michael Atkinson

Feminism…What’s Next?

Sady Doyle and Susan J. Douglas discuss the future with Katha Pollitt, Erin Matson and Jennifer Pozner.

ITT Contributors

Wrong Union For the Job

SEIU wants to lead a campaign against the 1%. Critics wonder if it can.

David Moberg

Red Squares Everywhere

Will Quebec’s maple spring come south?

Sarah Jaffe

The radical Left in Greece almost rules.

Richard Seymour

Smashing the Spinning Plates

How long can the Eurocrats in Brussels keep the dinnerware in motion?

Slavoj Žižek

A Dreamer, Deferred

A deportee adjusts to life in Mexico.

Ruth Samuelson

The Scourge of Meritocracy

An elite based on merit could be more impenetrable than one based on nepotism.

Oprah-iate of the People

On finding a new (and unexpected) appreciation for Oprah.

Bhaskar Sunkara

The Bradbury Chronicles

Decades after their publication, Ray Bradbury's stories mirror our present realities.

Making Obama’s Kill List

The public should have more information on the drone program and its targets.

Leonard C. Goodman

A Slip of the Tongue?

Bill Clinton's praise for Romney's business career signals what's to come in 2016.

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