October 2013 Volume 37, Issue 10

October 2013

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Viewpoint

Mining Your Life for Their Profit Susan J. Douglas

The Biggest Threat to the Black Vote James Thindwa

What a Tangled (World Wide) Web Jane Miller

Don’t Hate the Player Bhaskar Sunkara

Compounders Slip Through Deadly FDA Loophole Terry J. Allen

Feature

Where Farmers Markets and CSAs Fall Short John Collins

5 Cities in a Neoliberal Takeover; 5 Cities in a Progressive Boom In These Times Editors

A Company Town Becomes Our Town Rebecca Burns

A Union-Remade City Jake Blumgart

A Top-Down Urban Revolution Amy Dean

Freedom in the Cloud Slavoj Žižek

Dispatch

Blood on the Beach Todd Steiner

Is Fight for 15 for Real? Micah Uetricht

Dream Defenders Stand Their Ground Jeff Schuhrke

No Room of Their Own for New Yorkers in Need Michelle Chen

Culture

The Zombie Economist Chris Lehmann

Are We Fabulous Yet? Yasmin Nair

Uh-oh, We F**ked Our Mother Theo Anderson

This Can’t Be Paradise Michael Atkinson

Jonathan Lethem’s New Muse Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Where Farmers Markets and CSAs Fall Short

Mary Berry, daughter of poet Wendell Berry, wants to take local food beyond 'a faddish economy.'

John Collins

5 Cities in a Neoliberal Takeover; 5 Cities in a Progressive Boom

Who holds the keys to the city of the future?

In These Times Editors

A Company Town Becomes Our Town

How a town shadowed by Chevron built a vibrant movement to challenge corporate power.

Rebecca Burns

A Union-Remade City

Labor is taking back New Haven. But can it put people back to work?

Jake Blumgart

A Top-Down Urban Revolution

Will working people have any say in the new neoliberal city?

Amy Dean

Freedom in the Cloud

Assange, Manning and Snowden are the new heroes of the era of digitalized control.

Slavoj Žižek

The Zombie Economist

Alan Greenspan is baa-ack.

Are We Fabulous Yet?

The tyranny of queer beauty.

Uh-oh, We F**ked Our Mother

Our Oedipal relationship with Mother Earth.

Mining Your Life for Their Profit

A behind-the-screens look at how Internet giants sell your personal information.

Susan J. Douglas

This Can’t Be Paradise

Dante gets an update in Austrian director Ulrich Seidl's provocative new films.

Michael Atkinson

Blood on the Beach

The kidnapping and brutal murder of a sea turtle conservationist.

The Biggest Threat to the Black Vote

The best way to defend African-American voting rights is to end the War on Drugs.

What a Tangled (World Wide) Web

Have our youth lost the gift of boredom?

Don’t Hate the Player

In defense of Alex Rodriguez.

Bhaskar Sunkara

Is Fight for 15 for Real?

A hard look at the campaign by retail and fast-food workers to earn a living wage.

Dream Defenders Stand Their Ground

Occupying the New Jim Crow system.

Compounders Slip Through Deadly FDA Loophole

A Big-Pharma-funded Congress has tied regulators' hands. The result? Lethal drugs.

Jonathan Lethem’s New Muse

A failed socialist utopia in Queens stands in for the disarray of American progressivism.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

No Room of Their Own for New Yorkers in Need

Privatization threatens New York's public housing system.

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