October 2012 Volume 36, Issue 10

October 2012

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Viewpoint

Express Yourself, But Vote Joel Bleifuss

In Defense of the Baby Boomers Susan J. Douglas

Legislate First, Ask Questions Never Leonard C. Goodman

Ryan Shrugged Chris Lehmann

Zadie Smith’s London Jane Miller

Feature

Frankenfoods, Reveal Yourselves! Joseph Misulonas

Workers’ Rights at the Ballot Box Theo Anderson

‘We’re Proud To Be Scabs’ Gabriel Schwartzman

In Person: Sister Activist Rebecca Burns

Race v. Class Rebecca Burns

‘Going Nuclear’ on Class David Moberg

What Afghan Women Want Anna Badkhen

Splintering the 99% Louis Nayman

Winning in 2012 Vic Fingerhut

Culture

America’s Most Famous Living Poet Peter C. Baker

The Battle for Black Studies Julianne Malveaux

Tears of Gaza Michael Atkinson

Honey, We Shrunk the Parks Isaac Dalke

Occupy Gotham City Slavoj Žižek

Frankenfoods, Reveal Yourselves!

If passed, California's Prop 37 will require companies to label foods made with GMOs.

Joseph Misulonas

Workers’ Rights at the Ballot Box

Labor flexes its political muscle in the Midwest.

Theo Anderson

‘We’re Proud To Be Scabs’

Why Appalachian coal miners are eschewing unions and going Republican

Gabriel Schwartzman

In Person: Sister Activist

Simone Chapman leads Nuns on the Bus, who lobby for social and economic justice (and plague Paul Ryan).

Rebecca Burns

What kind of affirmative action is worth fighting for?

Rebecca Burns

‘Going Nuclear’ on Class

The Democrats’ working-class disconnect.

David Moberg

What Afghan Women Want

In Afghanistan's harsh rural regions, the West's legacy is merely more scars.

Anna Badkhen

Splintering the 99%

Romney and Ryan descend to race-baiting.

Louis Nayman

Winning in 2012

Wooing the volatile, mistrustful, anti-political — but crucial — Independent vote

Vic Fingerhut

America’s Most Famous Living Poet

Poet and author Lawrence Ferlinghetti is as well-known for his activity off the page.

The Battle for Black Studies

The forgotten African-American education-reform movement of the '60s and '70s.

Julianne Malveaux

Express Yourself, But Vote

This year's Democratic ticket may not be perfect, but, like life, it is much better than the alternative.

In Defense of the Baby Boomers

Twentysomethings are indeed getting screwed, but not by an entire, somehow monolithic generation of selfish, greedy, resource-guzzling hogs.

Susan J. Douglas

Legislate First, Ask Questions Never

We all must share responsibility for the ignorance of our leaders.

Leonard C. Goodman

Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan can't shake his Randian roots.

A new documentary explores the Gaza War from the point of view of children.

Michael Atkinson

Honey, We Shrunk the Parks

Reclaiming public space, inch by inch

Occupy Gotham City

What the Dark Night Rises says about violence, morality and people's power

Zadie Smith’s London

More than anyone else at the moment writing fiction about London, Zadie Smith knows about race and class.

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