June 2015 Volume 39, Issue 06

June 2015

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Viewpoint

The Collective That Saved Jazz Salim Muwakkil

Presidential Hopeful Scott Walker’s Higher Education Deficit Susan J. Douglas

Don’t ‘Arquette’ Hillary Clinton Andrea Plaid

Bernie Sanders: A Candidate Worth Voting For Joel Bleifuss

Feature

Meet the 25-Year-Old Native Hip Hop Artist Who’s Using Music to Combat Colonialism Jessica Koski

The GOP and ALEC’s War on Cities Theo Anderson

How the U.S. ‘Solved’ the Central American Migrant Crisis Joseph Sorrentino

Dispatch

How Some Small Farmers Are Resisting Monsanto—And Climate Change Petra Page-Mann

A Privatized River Runs Through It Kate Whittle

Don’t Cry for Chicago, Progressives Micah Uetricht

Culture

Why Some Vets Want to Relive Vietnam Eileen Jones

Pigeons Under Late Capitalism Michael Atkinson

Detained at Her Majesty’s Pleasure Jane Miller

Why Silicon Valley Won’t Solve the World’s Problems Chris Lehmann

Inside the Happiness Racket Joanna Scutts

Meet the 25-Year-Old Native Hip Hop Artist Who’s Using Music to Combat Colonialism

The Sicangu Lakota artist talks about growing up on a reservation and using music to educate young Native people.

Jessica Koski

The GOP and ALEC’s War on Cities

The Right has hijacked Congress and State Houses. Now it's coming for the cities.

Theo Anderson

How the U.S. ‘Solved’ the Central American Migrant Crisis

By getting Mexico to do its dirty work—and making tens of thousands of migrants more vulnerable to rape, kidnapping, extortion and murder.

Joseph Sorrentino

Why Some Vets Want to Relive Vietnam

A new documentary follows the weird subculture of Vietnam War reenactors—some of whom were actually there.

Pigeons Under Late Capitalism

An existentialist Swedish movie occupies a completely original universe.

Michael Atkinson

The Collective That Saved Jazz

The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians brought jazz back from the brink by connecting it to black struggle

How Some Small Farmers Are Resisting Monsanto—And Climate Change

Seed sharers are resisting the death of biodiversity at the hands of industrial agriculture and GMOs.

Petra Page-Mann

Detained at Her Majesty’s Pleasure

The UK keeps migrants in detention centres for unspecified periods of time.

Why Silicon Valley Won’t Solve the World’s Problems

In Geek Heresy, former Microsoft do-gooder Kentaro Toyama reconsiders tech-based social-change initiatives.

Inside the Happiness Racket

Can money buy happiness? A new book explores the history of those who have tried to sell it.

A Privatized River Runs Through It

To win its eminent domain suit, Missoula must prove that it is the best manager of its drinking water.

Don’t Cry for Chicago, Progressives

Mayor 1% wasn’t the only winner in April.

Presidential Hopeful Scott Walker’s Higher Education Deficit

What do you do after gutting public-sector unions? Gut public universities, it seems.

Susan J. Douglas

Don’t ‘Arquette’ Hillary Clinton

Will Clinton's 2016 campaign, like in 2008, be used to pit women and people of color against each other (as though the two don't overlap)?

Bernie Sanders: A Candidate Worth Voting For

'I have decided to be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president,' Sanders announced this morning.

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