February 2015 Volume 39, Issue 02

February 2015

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Viewpoint

The Barriers to Black-Brown Unity Salim Muwakkil

The New Cuba: Capitalism with a Socialist Face? Joel Bleifuss

Why Cuba, Why Now? Achy Obejas

Feature

Rahm Emanuel Is a Union-buster. So Why Are Chicago Unions Backing Him? David Moberg

How To Sell Off a City Rick Perlstein

Phillip Agnew, Dream Defender Michelle Chen

Why Eric Garner Couldn’t Breathe Terry J. Allen

The Upside of a Republican Congress Cole Stangler

Dispatch

The Women Behind Black Lives Matter Kendra Pierre-Louis

Community College in the Crosshairs Rebecca Burns

Police Body Cams: Solution or Scam? Osita Nwanevu

Culture

Labour Pains Jane Miller

Cuba’s Performance Problem Coco Fusco

The War on Billie Holiday Johann Hari

Portrait of the Artist as a Dying Class Joanna Scutts

American Sniper: Guns, God and Gallons of Testo’ Michael Atkinson

Land of the Free and Home of the Enhanced Interrogators Chris Lehmann

Rahm Emanuel Is a Union-buster. So Why Are Chicago Unions Backing Him?

Most of the city's labor movement is laying low or supporting the mayor in the upcoming election, despite his well-known anti-worker policies.

David Moberg

How To Sell Off a City

Welcome to Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago, the privatized metropolis of the future.

Rick Perlstein

Phillip Agnew, Dream Defender

Meet the new generation of civil rights leaders.

Michelle Chen

Why Eric Garner Couldn’t Breathe

The chokehold is only half the story of homicidal violence.

Terry J. Allen

The Upside of a Republican Congress

Progressives face a 'tough slog,' but so do Obama's pro-corporate trade deals.

Cole Stangler

There’s a U.K. General Election in May and I don’t know how to vote.

The Barriers to Black-Brown Unity

Can Chicago's black and brown communities come together to elect a new mayor?

Cuba’s Performance Problem

Havana closes down an open mic.

The Women Behind Black Lives Matter

The 'leaderless' movement is being propelled by the efforts of women of color.

Kendra Pierre-Louis

Community College in the Crosshairs

Even as Obama is calling for free community college, California's landmark system is under attack by accreditors allied with ALEC and for-profit schools.

Police Body Cams: Solution or Scam?

Debating the technophiles’ favorite fix for police violence

The War on Billie Holiday

The Bureau of Narcotics' strange obsession

Portrait of the Artist as a Dying Class

Scott Timberg argues that we've lost the scaffolding of middle-class jobs—record-store clerk, critic, roadie—that made creative scenes thrive.

The New Cuba: Capitalism with a Socialist Face?

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is delighted that Obama normalized relations with Cuba.

American Sniper: Guns, God and Gallons of Testo’

Clint Eastwood treats Iraq like Iwo Jima. Will Americans really go for this horseshit?

Michael Atkinson

Why Cuba, Why Now?

The 5 likeliest reasons behind Obama's surprise move to reverse a 53-year-old policy.

Land of the Free and Home of the Enhanced Interrogators

We need a truth and reconciliation commission to deal with our torture problem.

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