May 2014 Volume 38, Issue 05

May 2014

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Viewpoint

Getting Our Hands Dirty Joel Bleifuss

I Know Weather Porn When I See It Susan J. Douglas

The KKK and Other Grassroots Movements Bhaskar Sunkara

Feature

The Recovery That Could Have Been Rep. Alan Grayson

Cuban Players, Caught in a Pickle Achy Obejas

Think Globally, Act Tribally Walter R. Echo-Hawk

Ten Governors’ Races To Watch In 2014 Sarah Berlin and David Moberg

Toppling the Tea Party David Moberg

The Dawning of the Age of Anthropocene Jessica Stites

Barbara Ehrenreich on Science vs. Mysticism Sarah Jaffe

Budget Battles: Beyond Obama vs. Ryan Cole Stangler

Dispatch

Can We Have More Jobs and Less Work? Jessica Stites

Pittsburgh’s Nonprofit Pirates Rebecca Burns

Village Of The Dammed Lawrence Reichard

West Virginia Community Delivers on Clean Water Sarah Berlin

Culture

Mansplaining, Explained Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

The Ambiguities of Care Jane Miller

A Cubicle of One’s Own Chris Lehmann

Nymphomaniac: Lars Von Trier’s Masturbatory Fantasy Michael Atkinson

The Recovery That Could Have Been

We messed up, but we still have a chance to do the stimulus right.

Rep. Alan Grayson

Cuban Players, Caught in a Pickle

U.S. law pushes Cuban baseball players into exile if they wish to go pro.

Achy Obejas

Think Globally, Act Tribally

A UN declaration provides the framework for Native self-determination

Walter R. Echo-Hawk

Ten Governors’ Races To Watch In 2014

A handy guide for progressives and working people.

Sarah Berlin and David Moberg

Toppling the Tea Party

In 2014, progressives hope to take down the GOP gubernatorial class of 2010

David Moberg

The Dawning of the Age of Anthropocene

By altering the earth, have humans ushered in a new epoch?

Jessica Stites

Barbara Ehrenreich on Science vs. Mysticism

In Ehrenreich's new book, she comes out about mystical experiences in her teens. Then she puts them under a microscope.

Sarah Jaffe

Budget Battles: Beyond Obama vs. Ryan

The Congressional Progressive Caucus hopes to shift the annual budget debates away from austerity.

Cole Stangler

Getting Our Hands Dirty

Republican voting restrictions will hit young people hard. Where's the outrage among millennials?

Mansplaining, Explained

How Rebecca Solnit articulated a millennia-old phenomenon.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Can We Have More Jobs and Less Work?

In an age of overwork and unemployment, economists look at novel ways to solve both problems.

The Ambiguities of Care

As they grow older, women may find themselves once again enlisted as unpaid caretakers.

Pittsburgh’s Nonprofit Pirates

A hospital behemoth dominates the city, pays no taxes and does little for its lowest-paid workers.

Village Of The Dammed

In Panama, the Ngäbe-Buglé fight to save their river and their land.

Lawrence Reichard

West Virginia Community Delivers on Clean Water

A grassroots water delivery group filled in where government and relief agencies fell short.

A Cubicle of One’s Own

Nikil Saval's new book, Cubed, shows us the future of the workplace.

I Know Weather Porn When I See It

This winter, the sensationalized coverage of the cold distracted from the realities of climate change.

Susan J. Douglas

Nymphomaniac: Lars Von Trier’s Masturbatory Fantasy

The two-part film feels like the work of teenage boy.

Michael Atkinson

The KKK and Other Grassroots Movements

Venezuela isn't as divided as its right-wing opposition would have you believe.

Bhaskar Sunkara

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