April 2014 Volume 38, Issue 04

April 2014

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Viewpoint

Why Paid Sick Days Are a No-Brainer Terry J. Allen

Ending the Pain in Venezuela Achy Obejas

Why Stuart Hall Mattered Susan J. Douglas

Feature

New Mexico’s Badlands Joseph Sorrentino

Game of Homes Rebecca Burns, Michael Donley & Carmilla Manzanet

Kicked Out of Our Home, Courtesy of Blackstone Michael Donley and Carmilla Manzanet

Money, Money, Everywhere Rep. Alan Grayson

The Revolution Will Be Filmed Ed Rampell

Meet the ‘Missing’ Workers David Moberg

How Social Security Was Saved Cole Stangler

Dispatch

Charter Schools: The Promise and the Peril Joel Bleifuss

Teachers’ Strikes, Catching Fire Sarah Jaffe

Keystone XL Gets Electoral Cole Stangler

Spaniards Say No to Privatized Healthcare Ana Martinez

Culture

The Minor Leagues’ Major Malfunction Chris Lehmann

Judges Blind To Justice Moe Tkacik

Clever Girls Jane Miller

For Cambodian Documentarians, a Conundrum Michael Atkinson

The New York Lottery, Now Kid-Friendly? Matthew Vaz

New Mexico’s Badlands

In low-income colonias, the state's unregulated real-estate market allows predators to thrive.

Joseph Sorrentino

The private-equity firm Blackstone could be your next landlord.

Rebecca Burns, Michael Donley & Carmilla Manzanet

Kicked Out of Our Home, Courtesy of Blackstone

How an eviction, two arrests and one lost turtle led us to housing activism.

Michael Donley and Carmilla Manzanet

Money, Money, Everywhere

In an age of disparity, corporate wealth is far from an indicator of economic health.

Rep. Alan Grayson

The Revolution Will Be Filmed

Jehane Noujaim, director of Oscar-nominated documentary The Square, on the challenges of shooting a revolution-in-progress.

Ed Rampell

Meet the ‘Missing’ Workers

More than 5 million Americans have given up hope of a job. Who are they?

David Moberg

How Social Security Was Saved

Progressive groups and their allies in Congress win one for the people.

Cole Stangler

Charter Schools: The Promise and the Peril

Two systems of public education go head-to-head in Chicago.

The Minor Leagues’ Major Malfunction

Curt Flood's landmark antitrust suit transformed the Major League, but the Minor League is still bound by archaic rules.

Why Paid Sick Days Are a No-Brainer

They keep you--and everyone else--healthy.

Judges Blind To Justice

Matt Taibbi's new book, The Divide, illuminates the corruption in our courtrooms.

'Men or books?' These could be mutually exclusive choices for young women in 1950s Europe, as two new novels show.

For Cambodian Documentarians, a Conundrum

How do you show the past when the Khmer Rouge torched all traces?

Michael Atkinson

Teachers’ Strikes, Catching Fire

From Oregon to Minnesota, school is out unless teachers and communities are heard.

The New York Lottery, Now Kid-Friendly?

A new ad blitz makes deceptive claims.

Keystone XL Gets Electoral

Green candidates are cropping up all over the 'red' state of Nebraska.

Spaniards Say No to Privatized Healthcare

Nationwide outcry killed a proposal to privatize Madrid's hospitals.

Ending the Pain in Venezuela

A call for civility between Venezuela's warring factions.

Why Stuart Hall Mattered

The Marxist intellectual revolutionized how we think about pop culture. But the U.S. media barely noted his death.

Susan J. Douglas

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