April 2015 Volume 39, Issue 04

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Viewpoint

Obama’s Drone Policy Crashes and Burns Leonard C. Goodman

Keeping a Sharp Eye on Sharpton Salim Muwakkil

A New Magazine for the 1% Susan J. Douglas

In Mayoral Runoff, Rahm Emanuel’s Corrupt Governance Has Finally Caught Up With Him Rick Perlstein

Feature

A Turning Point for Chinese Workers? Chris Rhomberg

Europe’s Revolt Against Austerity Bhaskar Sunkara

For FERC’s Sake, Regulate Justin Mikulka

Storming the Corporate Castle: Does Shareholder Activism Work? Theo Anderson

How Unions Can Grow Stronger in the Wake of Right To Work David Moberg

Why Chuy Garcia Needs To Condemn Rahm Emanuel’s Secret Police Interrogation Site (Updated) Flint Taylor

Dispatch

America’s Tween Soldiers Seth Kershner

Is There Anything Wrong with GMOs? Molly Bennet

Culture

The Appeal of the UK’s Radical Right Jane Miller

Condors, Already F*cked, Get Fracked Hannah Guzik

A Cover Artist, Discovered—40 Years Later Chris Lehmann

Obamacare and Its Discontents Adam Gaffney

In Jauja, Cinema Takes on Colonialism, Slowly Michael Atkinson

Big Data Is Watching You Joanna Scutts

A Turning Point for Chinese Workers?

Amid a wave of strikes, hopes for lasting workplace reforms

Chris Rhomberg

Europe’s Revolt Against Austerity

Syriza is part of a wave of anti-austerity leftism in Europe, much of it led by young people.

Bhaskar Sunkara

For FERC’s Sake, Regulate

The most important government agency you’ve never heard of has never met a fracking lobbyist it didn’t like.

Justin Mikulka

Storming the Corporate Castle: Does Shareholder Activism Work?

Shareholder activism has sparked major wins for progressives, but the strategy has also spurred debate.

Theo Anderson

How Unions Can Grow Stronger in the Wake of Right To Work

Now that the former union bastion of Wisconsin has become the 25th 'right to work' state, labor must seriously address the question: How to organize under these conditions?

David Moberg

Why Chuy Garcia Needs To Condemn Rahm Emanuel’s Secret Police Interrogation Site (Updated)

By any other name, it still smells like torture.

Flint Taylor

The Appeal of the UK’s Radical Right

UKIP is reaching the 'left behind' white working class.

America’s Tween Soldiers

Middle schoolers: Uncle Sam wants you

Condors, Already F*cked, Get Fracked

Expanding fracking in a California condor sanctuary could kill an endangered species we've worked hard--and spent millions--to save.

Is There Anything Wrong with GMOs?

Monsanto is malevolent, but some scientists say Frankenfoods can do good.

A Cover Artist, Discovered—40 Years Later

Mingering Mike had all the requisites for a legendary music career, except the music.

Obamacare and Its Discontents

Steven Brill's new book outlines the shortcomings, as well as the accomplishments, of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act.

Obama’s Drone Policy Crashes and Burns

Yemen, the poster child for drone-based foreign policy, has collapsed on itself.

Leonard C. Goodman

In Jauja, Cinema Takes on Colonialism, Slowly

Viggo Mortensen and Lisandro Alonso tour Argentina's dark, imperialist past in a new film.

Michael Atkinson

Keeping a Sharp Eye on Sharpton

Al Sharpton has been labeled a 'Johnny-come-lately' to Hollywood's fight for diversity, and a paid defender of corporate media.

Big Data Is Watching You

The hidden price of Google, Twitter and Facebook.

A New Magazine for the 1%

The redesigned New York Times Magazine aims for a global outlook, but comes off as elitist.

Susan J. Douglas

In Mayoral Runoff, Rahm Emanuel’s Corrupt Governance Has Finally Caught Up With Him

It's become increasingly clear to Chicagoans that Rahm Emanuel is out for himself and his rich friends, not for us.

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