January 2015 Volume 39, Issue 01

January 2015

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Viewpoint

It’s Not the Koran, It’s Us Leonard C. Goodman

We Forgot To End Poverty Chris Rhomberg

From Occupy to Ferguson Jessica Stites

We Can’t All Just Get Along Susan J. Douglas

U.S. Youth Take Police Violence Charges to the UN Committee Against Torture Salim Muwakkil

Feature

Worse Than Keystone Winona LaDuke

How Ta-Nehisi Coates Made Reparations Mainstream Salim Muwakkil

Texas: The Blue Frontier Theo Anderson

Do You Want Shrapnel with That Airbag? Terry J. Allen

Dispatch

A New Strategy To Make the Banks Pay Laura Gottesdiener

Should We Oppose the Intervention Against ISIS? Danny Postel

For the Majority of Undocumented Immigrants Who Remain in the Shadows, Churches Offer Sanctuary Kevin Solari

Culture

Drowning Cajun Country Kendra Pierre-Louis

Slacking Workers of the World Unite Lindsay Beyerstein

The 1950s: You Had To Be There Jane Miller

Brother, Can You Spare a Euro? Michael Atkinson

Reports from Inside First Look Media Suggest That Maybe Silicon Valley Shouldn’t Manage Journalists Chris Lehmann

Worse Than Keystone

The pipeline project you've never heard of.

Winona LaDuke

How Ta-Nehisi Coates Made Reparations Mainstream

Coates talks about the debt he owes to black nationalists, and why black Americans are so hungry for data to back up their experiences.

Salim Muwakkil

Texas: The Blue Frontier

Texas won't turn blue from the top down, but it may already be doing so from the ground up.

Theo Anderson

Do You Want Shrapnel with That Airbag?

Culpable carmakers and captive regulators make a deadly combo.

Terry J. Allen

Drowning Cajun Country

Will the eaters of étouffée disappear along with the Louisiana bayou?

Kendra Pierre-Louis

Slacking Workers of the World Unite

We've made an art of wasting time at work. But to what end?

Lindsay Beyerstein

It’s Not the Koran, It’s Us

The corporate media chorus willfully ignores that U.S. actions, not Islam, fuel jihadism.

Leonard C. Goodman

The 1950s: You Had To Be There

Post-WWII America was more complicated than we remember.

We Forgot To End Poverty

Poverty remains at record highs. Is that because welfare reform failed, or because it succeeded all too well?

A New Strategy To Make the Banks Pay

Youngstown, Ohio, may have found the cure to the national plague of abandoned properties.

Laura Gottesdiener

Should We Oppose the Intervention Against ISIS?

Most U.S. leftists say yes. But voices we rarely hear—Kurds and members of the Syrian opposition—have more ambiguous views.

Brother, Can You Spare a Euro?

By posing the choice between a coworker's job and 1,000 Euros, Two Days, One Night explores the state of worker solidarity.

Michael Atkinson

From Occupy to Ferguson

The two movements are more connected than you think.

We Can’t All Just Get Along

In our era of polarization, one party is guiltier than the other.

Susan J. Douglas

U.S. Youth Take Police Violence Charges to the UN Committee Against Torture

A new generation globalizes the struggle.

Reports from Inside First Look Media Suggest That Maybe Silicon Valley Shouldn’t Manage Journalists

Feverish speculation surrounds First Look's recent troubles. But perhaps the most obvious culprit is its reliance on truckloads of tech money.

For the Majority of Undocumented Immigrants Who Remain in the Shadows, Churches Offer Sanctuary

6 million undocumented immigrants won’t receive relief under Obama’s executive action. Some churches are providing them with hope.

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