January 2013 Volume 37, Issue 01

January 2013
Viewpoint
Gold Diggers and Indians
Joel Bleifuss
Who’s Afraid of Homophobia?
Achy Obejas
Feature
Corporate Death Star
Jacob Marshall
Enemy of Rupert
Kenneth Rapoza
Executioner-in-Chief
Elizabeth Sanders
Chiquita Republic
James Bargent
The Walmart Revolt
David Moberg
Protest Tactics in a Warming World
Eric Moll
Supermax Showdown
Rebecca Burns
The War on Trafficking
Rebecca Burns
Solidarity After Sandy
Eric Murphy
Truce or Dare in Colombia
Jeremy Kryt
Culture
In Defense of Sports
Bhaskar Sunkara
Scroungers and Strivers
Jane Miller
Twilight of the Twi-Hards
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Catastrophiliacs
Sasha Lilley
Blinded by Thrift Store Irony
Chris Lehmann

Culture
In Defense of Sports
Why let capitalists have all the fun?
Bhaskar Sunkara

Viewpoint
Gold Diggers and Indians
Republicans want to have their way with Wisconsin's buried gold, but the Anishinaabe aren't having it.
Joel Bleifuss

Viewpoint
Who’s Afraid of Homophobia?
The Associated Press's decision to favor 'anti-gay' over 'homophobic' isn't as bad as some say.
Achy Obejas

Culture
Scroungers and Strivers
We are encouraged to sneer at poverty and hardship.
Jane Miller

Culture
Twilight of the Twi-Hards
The triumph of Team Katniss.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Culture
Catastrophiliacs
For some, the end of the world can't come too soon.
Sasha Lilley

Culture
Blinded by Thrift Store Irony
It makes very little sense to characterize irony, strictly speaking, as a matter of self-presentation.
Chris Lehmann