May 2015 Volume 39, Issue 05

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Viewpoint

Third Party Time ... Out Joel Bleifuss

Ready for a Woman, But Not Hillary Clinton Susan J. Douglas

In Chicago’s Mayoral Election, the Austerity Agenda Went Unopposed By Both Emanuel and Garcia Saqib Bhatti

From Moral Victories to Tangible Ones Rick Perlstein

Feature

The Two Faces of Evo Linda Farthing

Can Los Angeles Teachers Push Back the Corporate Education Reform Movement? Mario Vasquez

Can Ferguson’s Black Community Claim Political Power? Emmett Rensin

Who Do You Protect, Who Do You Surveil? Joel Handley

Dispatch

Yoopers Have Road Rage Kari Lydersen

Could Elizabeth Warren Really Run Against Hillary Clinton? Jessica Stites

Harvard Feels the Heat on Fossil-Fuel Divestment Kate Aronoff

Culture

Bitcoin: Digital Fool’s Gold? Chris Lehmann

Our Anger, Ourselves Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Jihadis Invade London Jane Miller

Asghar Farhadi’s Early Masterpiece Michael Atkinson

PHOTO-ESSAY: Caravan of the Mutilated Joseph Sorrentino

A Black Woman Traces Her Nazi Heritage Erin Aubry Kaplan

The Two Faces of Evo

The Bolivian president gives to the poor but takes from the environment

Linda Farthing

Can Los Angeles Teachers Push Back the Corporate Education Reform Movement?

LA teachers seem to be taking a page from the Chicago Teachers Union—including potentially building towards a strike.

Mario Vasquez

Can Ferguson’s Black Community Claim Political Power?

Rev. and Missouri state Rep. Tommie Pierson, who has found himself in the eye of the storm, reflects on Ferguson's recent elections and the DOJ report.

Emmett Rensin

Who Do You Protect, Who Do You Surveil?

The Chicago Police Department has spent millions on high-tech spying equipment, including cell-phone tracking technology, but is extremely secretive about its use.

Joel Handley

Bitcoin: Digital Fool’s Gold?

Silicon Valley investors are betting heavily on the online currency. But is it a libertarian boondoggle?

Third Party Time ... Out

The quadrennial debate begins.

Yoopers Have Road Rage

Michiganders are up in arms about a proposed mining road

Our Anger, Ourselves

Mary Dore's documentary, 'She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,' reminds us of '70s feminism's daring and creativity

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Jihadis Invade London

We are no wiser as to who indoctrinated 'Jihadi John.'

Asghar Farhadi’s Early Masterpiece

Through a seaside mystery, About Elly explores the irrational rules placed on women in Iran.

Michael Atkinson

PHOTO-ESSAY: Caravan of the Mutilated

Having lost limbs on the dangerous trip across Mexico, 13 Hondurans sought an audience with President Obama—but are instead facing deportation.

Joseph Sorrentino

A Black Woman Traces Her Nazi Heritage

In My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me, adoptee Jennifer Teege recounts her journey of discovery after learning her biological grandfather was mass murderer Amon Goeth.

Erin Aubry Kaplan

Could Elizabeth Warren Really Run Against Hillary Clinton?

Some are holding out for a progressive alternative to a Clinton coronation.

Ready for a Woman, But Not Hillary Clinton

She may be a feminist, but Hillary Clinton's policies and demeanor fit nicely with the old boys' club on Capitol Hill.

Susan J. Douglas

In Chicago’s Mayoral Election, the Austerity Agenda Went Unopposed By Both Emanuel and Garcia

Chicago's progressive movement needs to do more to advance a real alternative to austerity economics.

From Moral Victories to Tangible Ones

Jesus "Chuy" Garcia’s defeat was crushing. But Chicago progressives won, at the very least, a moral victory. Or maybe much more.

Harvard Feels the Heat on Fossil-Fuel Divestment

It's not Al Gore's movement anymore. Student activists are bringing a new militancy to the fight against climate change.

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