August 2013 Volume 37, Issue 08

August 2013

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Viewpoint

Robbing Peter to Pay DePaul Achy Obejas

Welcome Back, Jim Crow Joel Bleifuss

Feature

Thank You, Strike Again David Moberg

Wage Theft’s Top Cop Spencer Woodman

Who’s Afraid of Valerie Jarrett? Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

The Subversive Summit Randy Malamud

Mr. Miller Goes to Bangladesh Mike Elk

Obama and Africa G. Pascal Zachary

Dispatch

Water, Water, Nowhere Theo Anderson

A Bill of Rights for the Homeless Amien Essif

Green Hot American Summer Emma Foehringer Merchant

GMO Domino Effect Jessica Corbett

A Fracktious Debate Rebecca Burns

Culture

In the Dark About Light Elizabeth Sanders and Seth Bensel

A Brief History of Squatting Arun Gupta

The Myth of the Hardhat Hawk Bhaskar Sunkara

Gaga for Google Chris Lehmann

Psychonesia Michael Atkinson

Extra Time Jane Miller

Thank You, Strike Again

How low-wage service workers are changing the face of labor.

David Moberg

Wage Theft’s Top Cop

Meet Julie A. Su, bane of the deadbeat employer

Spencer Woodman

Who’s Afraid of Valerie Jarrett?

Criticisms of Jarrett reveal gender and racial anxieties--and a rift in Democratic Party.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

The Subversive Summit

In Europe, austerity's failures open radical opportunities.

Randy Malamud

Mr. Miller Goes to Bangladesh

Workplace safety crusader Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) on how to prevent another tragedy like Rana Plaza.

Mike Elk

Obama and Africa

Rhetoric aside, a close look at what the president has done in sub-Saharan Africa.

G. Pascal Zachary

In the Dark About Light

Our streetlight problem.

Elizabeth Sanders and Seth Bensel

A Brief History of Squatting

The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space chronicles decades of Lower East Side occupations.

Water, Water, Nowhere

When water becomes scarce, conservatives become environmentalists.

A Bill of Rights for the Homeless

Several states are considering guaranteeing civil rights for those without a roof over their heads.

The Myth of the Hardhat Hawk

Was the working class really the biggest proponent of the Vietnam War?

Bhaskar Sunkara

Green Hot American Summer

Late July brings a wave of climate demonstrations.

Emma Foehringer Merchant

Robbing Peter to Pay DePaul

As Rahm Emanuel decimates public schools, he's gifting a private college $55 million in public funds.

GMO Domino Effect

Four states to go, and a cascade of food labeling laws will take effect.

Jessica Corbett

Gaga for Google

The Internship: a study in the psychology of mass digital conformity.

Mass murderers reenact their crimes for fun in Joshua Oppenheimer's new documentary, The Act of Killing.

Michael Atkinson

A Fracktious Debate

Greens are divided on whether to regulate fracking or hold out for a ban.

What to do with those 'golden years' after 80?

Welcome Back, Jim Crow

With a helping hand from the Supreme Court, the GOP can cling to power by disenfranchising voters.

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