August 2015 Volume 39, Issue 08

August 2015

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Viewpoint

The NRA’s Bully Pulpit Susan J. Douglas

Our Neo-Confederacy Salim Muwakkil

The Anti-Union Bosses’ Group Fighting Fast Food Organizing Is Now Going After Home Care Workers Mariya Strauss, Political Research Associates

Feature

Kropotkin on the Hudson Polly Howells

The Vermont-New York Heroin-and-Guns Carousel That Can Make Dealers a 1,400% Profit Terry J. Allen

As Anti-Choice Fundamentalists Descend on Alabama, One Abortion Doctor Refuses To Be Bullied Stephanie Gilmore

The U.S. Is Locking Up Immigrant Children in Private Prisons Under Inhumane Conditions John Washington

Dispatch

Apple Doesn’t Want You To Be Able To Fix Your iPhone—Here’s Why Kendra Pierre-Louis

The Climate-Change Movement Is Winning the Argument—Now It Must Force the Government To Act Kate Aronoff

How Columbia Became the First University to Divest from Private Prisons Dayton Martindale

Is Banning Tourists the Solution to Gentrification? Martin de Bourmont

Culture

Treacheries At Teatime Jane Miller

In Flint, Michigan, the Wrecking Ball Has Not Meant Progress Daniel Hertz

A Quiet Return to the Killing Fields of Indonesia Michael Atkinson

The Stanford Prison Experiment Actually Shows We Are Not All Born Potential Tyrants Eileen Jones

If the GOP Wants To Attract Young People, Maybe It Should Stop Screwing Them Over Chris Lehmann

Investigation

The Real War on Families: Why the U.S. Needs Paid Leave Now Sharon Lerner

Kropotkin on the Hudson

A collective in Saugerties, New York, is trying to live by the teachings of 19th century Russian anarchist Pyotr Kropotkin.

Polly Howells

The Vermont-New York Heroin-and-Guns Carousel That Can Make Dealers a 1,400% Profit

Shooting up in Vermont, shooting up New York.

Terry J. Allen

As Anti-Choice Fundamentalists Descend on Alabama, One Abortion Doctor Refuses To Be Bullied

Dr. Willie Parker, the last abortion doctor in Mississippi, is bracing for a week of potentially violent protests in his hometown of Birmingham.

Stephanie Gilmore

The U.S. Is Locking Up Immigrant Children in Private Prisons Under Inhumane Conditions

The message being sent by the U.S. government is that when frightened women and children come to America seeking sanctuary, we will imprison them

John Washington

InvestigationGoodman Institute

The Real War on Families: Why the U.S. Needs Paid Leave Now

Investigation reveals the devastating effects of the lack of paid family leave: Our data show nearly 1 in 4 employed mothers return to work within two weeks of childbirth.

Apple Doesn’t Want You To Be Able To Fix Your iPhone—Here’s Why

The cure for planned Apple-escence

Kendra Pierre-Louis

Treacheries At Teatime

On postwar anti-communist surveillance in Britain

In Flint, Michigan, the Wrecking Ball Has Not Meant Progress

Andrew Highsmith charts the rise and fall of Flint, a city deserted by industry and divided by segregation.

The Climate-Change Movement Is Winning the Argument—Now It Must Force the Government To Act

How can we turn up the heat on Washington.

How Columbia Became the First University to Divest from Private Prisons

Thanks to relentless student pressure, more than a year of rallies, protests and sit-ins proved too much to ignore.

Dayton Martindale

A Quiet Return to the Killing Fields of Indonesia

Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing focused on the perpetrators of genocide; in the sequel, the stage is shared by traumatized survivors.

Michael Atkinson

The Stanford Prison Experiment Actually Shows We Are Not All Born Potential Tyrants

The film adaptation of the Stanford prison experiment explores little of its ambiguity.

Is Banning Tourists the Solution to Gentrification?

A 'tourist cap' might be in the works in Barcelona to fight rising costs of living and disorderly behavior.

Martin de Bourmont

The NRA’s Bully Pulpit

America's most dangerous nonprofit has a stranglehold on public policy.

Susan J. Douglas

Our Neo-Confederacy

The flag may be wiped from state grounds and license plates, but its ideals live on in the GOP agenda

If the GOP Wants To Attract Young People, Maybe It Should Stop Screwing Them Over

Kristen Soltis Anderson’s The Selfie Vote suggests Republicans use "microtargeting" to win over the youth.

The Anti-Union Bosses’ Group Fighting Fast Food Organizing Is Now Going After Home Care Workers

Can workers centers and unions create a movement strong enough to fight back?

Mariya Strauss, Political Research Associates

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