April 2013 Volume 37, Issue 04

April 2013

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Viewpoint

The GOP’s Cuban Conundrum Achy Obejas

Hollywood Is the Wrong Target Michael Atkinson

Tea Party Coup D’état Joel Bleifuss

Loving to Hate the Royal Family Jane Miller

Feature

How Capitalism Conquered the Internet Robert McChesney

Domestic Insurgents Rebecca Burns

Building Parent-Teacher Unions Jacob Wheeler

A Flu Shot in the Dark Terry J. Allen

Taking a Stand Against Cuts Cole Stangler

In Questioning Brennan, Intelligence Committee Showed Little Leonard C. Goodman

Morning Jo(k)e Chris Lehmann

Bingeing on Food Porn Susan J. Douglas

House of Cards and the Liberal Imagination Bhaskar Sunkara

Dispatch

Shot, Then Shut Out Rebecca Burns

VAWA: A Victory for Women—But Which Women? Rebecca Burns

Culture

Suicide by Appointment Richard Baker

Zen and the Art of Corporate Overthrow Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

No Self-Help Wanted Richard Greenwald

How Capitalism Conquered the Internet

And how we can take it back.

Robert McChesney

Domestic Insurgents

In organizing domestic workers, a feat once thought impossible, Ai-jen Poo has transformed the labor movement.

Rebecca Burns

Building Parent-Teacher Unions

Inspired by Chicago, teachers unions across the country are looking to parents and communities for support.

Jacob Wheeler

A Flu Shot in the Dark

Does 9 percent success rate in the elderly justify universal vaccination?

Terry J. Allen

Taking a Stand Against Cuts

Will the Congressional Progressive Caucus hold the line against austerity?

Cole Stangler

In Questioning Brennan, Intelligence Committee Showed Little

The Senate watchdogs of the CIA played dumb on drones--again.

Leonard C. Goodman

Joe Scarborough and the Beltway austerians think Nobelist Paul Krugman is a nut. Really, Joe?

Chris Lehmann

Bingeing on Food Porn

How foodie magazines aid and abet Big Food.

Susan J. Douglas

House of Cards and the Liberal Imagination

The Netflix series' cynicism shouldn’t be mistaken for considered political critique.

Bhaskar Sunkara

The GOP’s Cuban Conundrum

As they begin to lose their Cuban-American base, Republicans start seeing faults in a Cold War-era immigration policy.

Suicide by Appointment

A soldier's story of living precariously with PTSD. And of a government unable to help him.

Zen and the Art of Corporate Overthrow

HBO's 'Enlightened' was the best send-up of capitalism on TV.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Shot, Then Shut Out

Chicago's most crime-ridden neighborhoods have no access to trauma care.

No Self-Help Wanted

You are not the only thing holding you back.

Richard Greenwald

Hollywood Is the Wrong Target

Entertainment isn't causing a culture of gun violence--we are.

Michael Atkinson

Tea Party Coup D’état

Progressives are too quick to believe that the Tea Party hurts Republicans.

Loving to Hate the Royal Family

Hilary Mantel's sniping at Kate Middleton, and why we Britons cling to our monarchy.

VAWA: A Victory for Women—But Which Women?

Advocates cheer the renewal of Violence Against Women Act after a 500-day delay, but question its approach.

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