December 2014 Volume 38, Issue 12

December 2014

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Viewpoint

Football: Nothing Left to Cheer For Susan J. Douglas

Ferguson’s ISIS Allies? Salim Muwakkil

The Lesson from the Midterms: Elizabeth Warren Should Run in 2016 Joel Bleifuss

Feature

The 14-Year-Old Voice of the Climate Change Generation Jordan McCurdy

The One Thing Worse Than Big Dairy’s Abuse of Cows? Its Abuse of Workers. Joseph Sorrentino

The Democrats Need a Shot in the Arm David Moberg

Karen Lewis Has Already Redefined Chicago Politics James Thindwa

Dispatch

Is Gentrification Inevitable? Yana Kunichoff

Baltimore Teens Take Out the Trash Bruce Vail

Culture

Drug Shills Dispensing Pills Jean Kim

Vampire Princess of Persia Michael Atkinson

Let Old Labor Die Jeremy Gantz

On the Death of a Spouse Jane Miller

The Reporter Who Paid a High Price for ‘Contra Crack’ Jim Naureckas

Investigation

Fracking the Poor Hannah Guzik

The 14-Year-Old Voice of the Climate Change Generation

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is calling on both the young and the old to save our planet.

Jordan McCurdy

The One Thing Worse Than Big Dairy’s Abuse of Cows? Its Abuse of Workers.

While the dairy industry's cruel treatment of cows has been well documented, workers face vile and often dangerous conditions.

Joseph Sorrentino

The Democrats Need a Shot in the Arm

Republicans pulled together in the midterms to continue waging war on workers, the planet and democracy. Democrats ran from each other. The results shouldn't surprise us.

David Moberg

Karen Lewis Has Already Redefined Chicago Politics

She's out of the race, but the movement continues to build.

James Thindwa

Is Gentrification Inevitable?

Some activists are trying to beat back the tide of the market.

Drug Shills Dispensing Pills

A psychiatrist questions Big Pharma's influence on her profession.

Baltimore Teens Take Out the Trash

Youth battle a waste incinerator.

Vampire Princess of Persia

Not your kid sister's vampire flick.

Michael Atkinson

Let Old Labor Die

With union membership declining, Tom Geoghegan has a radical prescription for labor.

On the Death of a Spouse

Football: Nothing Left to Cheer For

How can fans respond to the rash of brutality on and off the field?

Susan J. Douglas

The Reporter Who Paid a High Price for ‘Contra Crack’

A new film, Kill the Messenger, shows how the CIA, the Washington Post and the LA Times conspired to discredit a journalist, and destroyed a life.

InvestigationGoodman Institute

Fracking the Poor

A 5-month investigation reveals that fracking operations in California are disproportionately concentrated in poor communities of color—and may be causing alarming health effects.

Ferguson’s ISIS Allies?

Despite what right-wing media may tell you, ISIS has little in common with black Muslims--or black Americans.

The Lesson from the Midterms: Elizabeth Warren Should Run in 2016

After the pity party’s through, let’s get organized.

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