January 2014 Volume 38, Issue 01

January 2014

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Viewpoint

Dumbing America Down Susan J. Douglas

Soccer in Sun and Shadow Bhaskar Sunkara

Obamacare After Obama Achy Obejas

Feature

Forever Temp? Sarah Jaffe

Hood Feminist Kathleen Jercich

Just Kids Matt Stroud

The Adjunct’s Lament Rebecca Burns

Stealing Pennies from Chileros Joseph Sorrentino

Dispatch

A Win for 15 Jeff Bishku-Aykul

An Anonymous Judge and Jury Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Can Socialists Win Elections in the U.S.? Bhaskar Sunkara and Micah Uetricht

Parks and Referendum Theo Anderson

Culture

The Roots of the Tea Party Melvyn Dubofsky

Beck Is Back Chris Lehmann

Sex and the Older Woman Jane Miller

Beware Mayoralphilia Catherine Tumber

Straight Outta Juárez Michael Atkinson

Once a bastion of good jobs, manufacturing has gone gaga for temps.

Sarah Jaffe

The creator of #solidarityisforwhitewomen talks race and online feminism.

Kathleen Jercich

Could a recent Supreme Court decision give juvenile lifers a second chance?

Matt Stroud

The Adjunct’s Lament

Even in the ivory tower, work is often solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.

Rebecca Burns

Stealing Pennies from Chileros

Green chiles are a hot commodity, but the fields are overgrown with wage theft.

Joseph Sorrentino

The Roots of the Tea Party

How conservatives came to dominate U.S. politics.

Melvyn Dubofsky

Dumbing America Down

The Right wants us to think higher education has no value.

Susan J. Douglas

Soccer in Sun and Shadow

Blazing heat isn't the only problem with holding the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Bhaskar Sunkara

What Glenn Beck and Malcolm Gladwell have in common.

Sex and the Older Woman

Lynne Segal provides a feminist take on desirability in old age.

Obamacare After Obama

The Affordable Care Act's issues will be far from resolved by 2016.

Beware Mayoralphilia

For every visionary mayor, there are a dozen Rob Fords.

Catherine Tumber

Straight Outta Juárez

A new documentary on narcocorrido, the gangsta rap that glorifies the Mexican drug trade.

Michael Atkinson

Could SeaTac prove a bellwether for the low-wage worker movement?

Jeff Bishku-Aykul

An Anonymous Judge and Jury

For digital vigilantes, accused rapists are guilty until proven innocent.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Can Socialists Win Elections in the U.S.?

Kshama Sawant of Seattle showed socialist victories are possible. Will they spread?

Bhaskar Sunkara and Micah Uetricht

Parks and Referendum

A fight to save a local park taps into the global movement for public space.

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