November 2012 Volume 36, Issue 11

November 2012

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Viewpoint

The Novels We Write For Ourselves Jane Miller

Voting for Obama with No Illusions Achy Obejas

‘A Giant Sucking Sound’ Leonard C. Goodman

Frances Fox Piven: For the Welfare of All Frances Fox Piven

Rich Deserts Chris Lehmann

The War on Teachers: Pick a Side Joel Bleifuss

Feature

Rape, Then Red Tape Ian Lopez

Trans Prisoners Fight Abuse Toshio Meronek

You Are Not A Loan Rebecca Burns

Robin Hood Goes To Capitol Hill Sarah Cobarrubias

A Third-Party Breakthrough Theo Anderson

Canvassers Gone Wired David Moberg

Back to School in the Bronx Jarrett Dapier

Progressive Star of Texas Theo Anderson

Karen Lewis Drops Knowledge Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Fighting Voter Suppression Brentin Mock

Culture

The Ice Man, Radioactive Greg Palast

Mothering Hypes Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

A Heathcliff We Haven’t Seen Before Michael Atkinson

After the Gold Rush Danielle McCullough

Rape, Then Red Tape

Military sexual assault victims struggle for recognition.

Ian Lopez

Trans Prisoners Fight Abuse

Trans prisoners and queer-rights groups protest unfair treatment behind bars.

Toshio Meronek

You Are Not A Loan

Is a debt strike the future of Occupy?

Rebecca Burns

Robin Hood Goes To Capitol Hill

Will Congress get serious about taxing financial transactions?

Sarah Cobarrubias

A Third-Party Breakthrough

The Working Families Party tips a race in upstate New York.

Theo Anderson

Canvassers Gone Wired

Labor's get-out-the-vote efforts go digital.

David Moberg

Back to School in the Bronx

In Fire in the Ashes, Kozol returns to the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx—“the poorest congressional district in the nation.”

Jarrett Dapier

Progressive Star of Texas

Beto O'Rourke is on his way to shake up Congress.

Theo Anderson

Karen Lewis Drops Knowledge

The Chicago Teachers Union president has the formula for change.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Fighting Voter Suppression

The battle for a basic civil right continues to rage.

Brentin Mock

The Welfare State of America

A manifesto on building social democracy in the age of austerity.

Peter Frase and Bhaskar Sunkara

A Poverty of Empathy

The GOP's social welfare philosophy dates back to 1818.

Margaret Garb

Big Money Can’t Buy You Memes

Can a grainy, amateur video, zooming through social media, trump slickly produced TV ads?

Susan J. Douglas

The Novels We Write For Ourselves

There's nothing objectionable about the new Anna Karenina film starring Keira Knightley. But she won't be my Anna.

Voting for Obama with No Illusions

Four reasons to keep Obama in the White House and Romney out.

The Ice Man, Radioactive

Harold Simmons: the GOP’s $50 million man.

‘A Giant Sucking Sound’

While Romney and Obama speechify, behind the scenes they continue to push policies that favor corporate profits over middle-class workers.

Leonard C. Goodman

Frances Fox Piven: For the Welfare of All

The Left needs to proudly support social welfare.

Frances Fox Piven

Our new cult of money ensures that breeding shall evermore speak to breeding.

The War on Teachers: Pick a Side

In Chicago, the teachers' strike was hugely popular. In the national media, it was maligned.

Mothering Hypes

Jessica Valenti's new book debunks myths maternal.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

A Heathcliff We Haven’t Seen Before

Crafty casting turns Wuthering Heights into a love story haunted by the guilt and ghosts of slavery.

Michael Atkinson

After the Gold Rush

An artist turns a vacant house into a confrontational sculptural object.

Danielle McCullough

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