August 2014 Volume 38, Issue 08

August 2014

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Viewpoint

Anaphylactic Sticker Shock Terry J. Allen

The Neverending Syndrome: From Vietnam to Iraq Joel Bleifuss

Revisiting Reparations Salim Muwakkil

Feature

We Read It So You Don’t Have To In These Times Staff

What To Read on Your Summer Vacation In These Times Staff

Four Degrees of Literary Separation In These Times Staff

What Some of Our Favorite Authors Are Reading This Summer In These Times Staff

All Aboard for Net Neutrality Cole Stangler

The Bad Boss Tax Sarah Jaffe

Broken Eggs, But No Omelet Slavoj Žižek

Dispatch

A RAD-ical Housing Experiment Rebecca Burns

Alabama’s Anti-Abortion Architects Robin Marty

The Nanny University Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

OUR Walmart Crashes the Party Ethan Corey

Culture

What Is Literature For? Jane Miller

Don’t Let Nina Be Misunderstood Miriam Petty

Nationalize the Ivy League Chris Lehmann

The Yes Men Secure the Homeland The Yes Men

Jan Palach: Prague’s Human Torch Michael Atkinson

The Uses of Enchantment Jessica Stites

We Read It So You Don’t Have To

A talking-points guide to the summer's more politically odious offerings—and suggestions for better uses of your time.

In These Times Staff

What To Read on Your Summer Vacation

Our list of beach reads for the social justice set.

In These Times Staff

Four Degrees of Literary Separation

It turns out our favorite authors are each other's favorites, too.

In These Times Staff

What Some of Our Favorite Authors Are Reading This Summer

A peek into the summer reading lists of John B. Judis, Melissa Gira Grant, Thomas Piketty, Winona LaDuke and Doug Henwood.

In These Times Staff

All Aboard for Net Neutrality

Why the Internet should be regulated like the railroads.

Cole Stangler

The Bad Boss Tax

Workers at Target, Walmart and McDonald's need food stamps to survive. Should the companies be taxed accordingly?

Sarah Jaffe

Broken Eggs, But No Omelet

All austerity has wrought in Europe is a messy kitchen

Slavoj Žižek

Anaphylactic Sticker Shock

Road trip! Or, two middle-aged women go on a Hunter S. Thompson-esque drug-buying spree across an international border. And score.

What Is Literature For?

The U.K. removes American classics from required reading lists.

A RAD-ical Housing Experiment

Baltimore public housing tenants will serve as guinea pigs for a new national privatization plan.

Don’t Let Nina Be Misunderstood

The problem with Zoe Saldana playing Nina Simone.

Nationalize the Ivy League

We need to go further than the meritocratic reforms proposed by William Deresiewicz.

The Yes Men Secure the Homeland

A group of activists—disguised as government officials—get Homeland Security Congress attendees enthused to address climate change.

The Neverending Syndrome: From Vietnam to Iraq

As Iraq plunges into civil war, we should indeed play the blame game.

Alabama’s Anti-Abortion Architects

Amidst uproar over a new law threatening three clinics, a fourth was quietly shut down.

The Nanny University

Is the academy trigger-warning happy?

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Revisiting Reparations

It's time for a Marshall Plan for black Americans.

Jan Palach: Prague’s Human Torch

A new film takes a rare look behind the Iron Curtain.

Michael Atkinson

The Uses of Enchantment

In Enchanted Objects, David Rose rhapsodizes about the coming Internet of Things. But can high-tech objects really reconnect us?

OUR Walmart Crashes the Party

What happens when you talk about workers' rights during a shareholders meeting?

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