November 2014 Volume 38, Issue 11

November 2014

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Viewpoint

Jim Crow at the Polling Place Joel Bleifuss

Obama’s Delay on Immigration: Shameful, But Savvy Achy Obejas

The Neo-Scramble for Africa Salim Muwakkil

The Pandemic We Are Ignoring Terry J. Allen

Feature

A ‘Post-Political’ Labor Movement David Moberg

Can Climate Change Unite the Left? Naomi Klein

Home Care in Crisis Kathryn Joyce

Jon Burge, Torturer of Over 100 Black Men, Is Out of Prison After Less Than Four Years Flint Taylor

Who Killed Adulthood? Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Dispatch

Terkel’s Torch-Bearers Theo Anderson

Pulling the Plug on Corporate Personhood Rob Richie

The Black-Brown Alliance That’s Turning Kansas Blue Sam Ross-Brown

Culture

We Are All Sea Turtles Now Molly M. Ginty

The Next Oil Spill Patricia Aufderheide

The Filmmaker Any Cinema-Literate Progressive Must Know Michael Atkinson

New Deal, Same Spiel Chris Lehmann

The Poor Don’t Need Pity Joanna Scutts

Scotland: Why One Londoner Is Relieved Jane Miller

A ‘Post-Political’ Labor Movement

Stanley Aronowitz on how the labor movement falters and how it might recover.

David Moberg

Can Climate Change Unite the Left?

To avoid catastrophe, we must seize corporate polluters' wealth. And to do that, we must change everything.

Naomi Klein

Home Care in Crisis

Everyone agrees the answer to the critical shortage of caregivers is good jobs. But how do we get there?

Kathryn Joyce

Jon Burge, Torturer of Over 100 Black Men, Is Out of Prison After Less Than Four Years

Chicago's notorious former police commander is released from prison. A human rights lawyer representing police torture victims responds.

Flint Taylor

Who Killed Adulthood?

Feminism stands wrongly accused.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

We Are All Sea Turtles Now

Can the Olive ridley sea turtle survive human meddling?

Jim Crow at the Polling Place

New voter legislation is an unwelcome blast from the past.

The Next Oil Spill

According to a new documentary, we're all responsible for the BP disaster.

Patricia Aufderheide

The Filmmaker Any Cinema-Literate Progressive Must Know

Finally, more of Chris Marker's work is becoming available in the U.S. Here's where to start.

Michael Atkinson

Terkel’s Torch-Bearers

Meet the new generation of oral historians.

Obama’s Delay on Immigration: Shameful, But Savvy

Latinos won't tip the midterms. Anti-immigrant right-wingers might.

The Neo-Scramble for Africa

Our first black president's approach to Africa doesn't feel like a first.

Pulling the Plug on Corporate Personhood

Citizens United prompted cries for a constitutional amendment. But how to amend?

The Black-Brown Alliance That’s Turning Kansas Blue

Why is Pat Roberts running for his life in the Kochs' home state? Ask community organizers.

New Deal, Same Spiel

Ken Burns' documentary about the Roosevelts is heavy on fable but light on fact.

The Pandemic We Are Ignoring

A possible cure for hep-C comes at a great cost to the sick.

The Poor Don’t Need Pity

In a new book, Linda Tirado elaborates on her viral essay, 'Why I Make Terrible Decisions, or, Poverty Thoughts.'

Scotland: Why One Londoner Is Relieved

It's lucky for U.K. progressives that the Scots didn't secede.

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