July 2015 Volume 39, Issue 07

July 2015

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Viewpoint

The Pentagon’s New Weapon: Agent Whitewash Tom Hayden

The Secrets and Lies of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Joel Bleifuss

Is Our Politicians Learning? Susan J. Douglas

Feature

Going Beyond Labor’s Limitations: Larry Cohen Reflects on His Time as a Progressive Union President David Moberg

Why Chicago Won’t Go Bankrupt—And Detroit Didn’t Have To Saqib Bhatti

Why Bernie Sanders Is the Perfect Candidate for This Moment in American Politics Theo Anderson

How the Border Security Industry Will Profit Hugely From Climate Change Todd Miller and Alex Devoid

The Death of Climate Denialism Kate Aronoff

Dispatch

How Black Lives Matter Has Spread Into a Global Movement to End Racist Policing Amien Essif

Civil Rights: The Next Generation Martha Biondi

Culture

A Spy’s Guide to Protecting Whistleblowers Brandon Smith

The Tribe Is a Silent Lord of the Flies Michael Atkinson

A Century After Ota Benga’s Captivity, Elites Still Don’t Understand White Supremacy Chris Lehmann

A Shaky Launch for HBO’s The Brink Eileen Jones

The Climate Change-Induced Dystopia of ‘The Water Knife’ Is Not Just Sci-Fi—It’s Already Here Jessica Stites

Austerity: The Real Winner of the UK Elections Jane Miller

Going Beyond Labor’s Limitations: Larry Cohen Reflects on His Time as a Progressive Union President

An interview with Larry Cohen, outgoing Communications Workers of America president, on how the U.S. labor movement can go bigger.

David Moberg

Why Chicago Won’t Go Bankrupt—And Detroit Didn’t Have To

Detroit's bankruptcy wasn't inevitable. Neither is Chicago's. But the austerity hawks don't want you to know that.

Saqib Bhatti

Why Bernie Sanders Is the Perfect Candidate for This Moment in American Politics

Sanders's laser-like focus on inequality is perfectly in sync with the nation's current political climate.

Theo Anderson

How the Border Security Industry Will Profit Hugely From Climate Change

A hawk’s eye-view of global warming.

Todd Miller and Alex Devoid

The Death of Climate Denialism

Soon the Right will have to abandon its head-in-the-sand strategy—but its next tactic may be more dangerous.

Kate Aronoff

A Spy’s Guide to Protecting Whistleblowers

Journalists now compete with spooks and spies, and the spooks have the home-field advantage.

The Pentagon’s New Weapon: Agent Whitewash

A $60 million government project to commemorate the Vietnam War distorts the facts.

How Black Lives Matter Has Spread Into a Global Movement to End Racist Policing

The next Baltimore could be somewhere in Europe.

The Tribe Is a Silent Lord of the Flies

Though entirely in Ukrainian Sign, without subtitles, Slaboshpytskiy's remarkable film will speak to a hearing audience.

Michael Atkinson

A Century After Ota Benga’s Captivity, Elites Still Don’t Understand White Supremacy

Over a century after a Congolese man was displayed at the Bronx Zoo monkey exhibit, white elites still stubbornly believe they are benevolent, not supremacist.

A Shaky Launch for HBO’s The Brink

The new black comedy about nuclear war misses its target.

Civil Rights: The Next Generation

What happens in Baltimore isn’t going to stay in Baltimore

The Secrets and Lies of the Trans-Pacific Partnership

President Obama insists there's "nothing secret" about the massive trade deal—yet we aren't allowed to know anything that's in it.

Is Our Politicians Learning?

The most formidable challenger for Jeb Bush is his own brother’s legacy.

Susan J. Douglas

The Climate Change-Induced Dystopia of ‘The Water Knife’ Is Not Just Sci-Fi—It’s Already Here

The climate change-induced tragedies The Water Knife chronicles are already happening today; they’re just not happening to us—yet.

Austerity: The Real Winner of the UK Elections

May’s elections delivered the familiar thud of disappointment.

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