May 2013 Volume 37, Issue 05

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Viewpoint

Demystifying India Jane Miller

The Digital Education Divide Susan J. Douglas

The Gay Old Party Achy Obejas

Drone Justice is Blind Leonard C. Goodman

Feature

Lean Socialist Bhaskar Sunkara

Can Manufacturing Be Reborn in the U.S.A.? David Moberg

Blood on the Tracks Kari Lydersen

Los Mineros’ Leader-in-Exile Kari Lydersen

Is Life Without Parole Any Better Than the Death Penalty? Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

Can Co-ops Save Unions? Rebecca Burns

Giant Green Steps Theo Anderson

Suicides Spark Eviction Resistance Cathy Bueker

Can We Kiss Internet Privacy Goodbye? Ian Becker

Culture

Powerball Trip Matthew Vaz

Leaning In While Black Tamara Winfrey Harris

Upstream Color Reinvents Cinema Michael Atkinson

Will the Real Betty Draper Please Stand Up? Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Why liberalism needs socialism--and vice versa.

Bhaskar Sunkara

Can Manufacturing Be Reborn in the U.S.A.?

Maybe, but don't look to 'reshoring.'

David Moberg

Blood on the Tracks

Railway whistleblowers get some federal protection at last.

Kari Lydersen

Los Mineros’ Leader-in-Exile

From Canada, Napoleón Gómez Urrutia seeks justice for the deaths of 65 miners.

Kari Lydersen

Is Life Without Parole Any Better Than the Death Penalty?

Maryland is poised to be the 18th state to abolish capital punishment, in favor of lifetime imprisonment.

Rebecca Burns

How a proposal for a socially conscious lottery panicked corporations and birthed the 9-figure jackpot.

Demystifying India

Jane Miller reflects on the end of an empire.

Can Co-ops Save Unions?

Labor-cooperative partnerships may herald a new strategy for labor--if they can get off the ground.

The Digital Education Divide

Massive Open Online Courses threaten to aggravate the problems they were designed to solve.

Susan J. Douglas

Leaning In While Black

Can Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's manifesto speak to women of color?

Tamara Winfrey Harris

Giant Green Steps

What needs to happen to pass global warming legislation?

Suicides Spark Eviction Resistance

In the face of tragedy, Spain's housing movement is gathering steam.

The Gay Old Party

Republicans are waving a white flag in their battle against marriage equality--or is that a rainbow flag?

Can We Kiss Internet Privacy Goodbye?

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act is moving swiftly again--and this time, Obama's veto is less certain.

Drone Justice is Blind

There's no way President Obama can fairly review each drone strike.

Leonard C. Goodman

Upstream Color Reinvents Cinema

We've seen the future of film, and it's incomprehensible.

Michael Atkinson

Will the Real Betty Draper Please Stand Up?

In Mad Men's new season, we need the slap-in-the-face Betty back.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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