September 2015 Volume 39, Issue 09

September 2015

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Viewpoint

Gov. Walker Gets Off ‘Scot-Free’ For Alleged Campaign Finance Violations Joel Bleifuss

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me” Forever Changes the Meaning of ‘The American Dream’ Salim Muwakkil

Feature

A New Plan for American Cities To Free Themselves of Wall Street’s Control Saqib Bhatti

Selling Off New Orleans: Gentrification and the Loss of Community 10 Years After Katrina Fatima Shaik

They Voted ‘No’ to Austerity. They Got ‘Yes’ Anyway. What Do Greeks Think About Tsipras Now? Tomás Lynch

The Union Behind the Biggest Campaign Against Walmart in History May Be Throwing in the Towel. Why? David Moberg

Is Climate Change Causing Pre-traumatic Stress Disorder in Millennials? Martin de Bourmont and Dayton Martindale

Jose Antonio Vargas on White People, Trump and Bernie Sanders’ Black Lives Matter Problem Karen Gwee

Dispatch

The Bernie Debate: Would Sanders Advance Feminism and Racial Justice Better Than Clinton? Kathleen Geier

How One Group of Moms Is Keeping the Peace on One of Chicago’s Most Violent Street Corners Lillian Osborne and Jessica Stites

The Brooklyn Tenant Union That’s Fighting Gentrification Through Collective Bargaining Ethan Corey

Culture

Who’s Behind the Smithsonian Museum’s $63 Million Ode to American Capitalism? Chris Lehmann

Why the Youngest Country on Earth Can’t Escape the Yoke of Colonialism Michael Atkinson

Fall In Love with Your Job, Get Ripped Off by Your Boss Joanna Scutts

How an Anti-Austerity Protest Candidate Became the Frontrunner for Labour’s Leadership Jane Miller

Mr. Robot Is the Anti-Capitalist TV Show We’ve Been Waiting For Brian Cook

A New Plan for American Cities To Free Themselves of Wall Street’s Control

Arbitrary financial fees are sucking cities and states dry. But they can change the terms if they band together and bargain collectively.

Saqib Bhatti

Selling Off New Orleans: Gentrification and the Loss of Community 10 Years After Katrina

How long-time residents feel about the new Louisiana purchase

Fatima Shaik

They Voted ‘No’ to Austerity. They Got ‘Yes’ Anyway. What Do Greeks Think About Tsipras Now?

We asked Athenians on the street how they feel about the Syriza leader's acceptance of the EU's terms and the lean times ahead.

Tomás Lynch

The Union Behind the Biggest Campaign Against Walmart in History May Be Throwing in the Towel. Why?

With major cuts rumored, the future of the campaign against America's largest private employer is uncertain.

David Moberg

Is Climate Change Causing Pre-traumatic Stress Disorder in Millennials?

Today's youth are coming of age in the age of extinction

Martin de Bourmont and Dayton Martindale

Jose Antonio Vargas on White People, Trump and Bernie Sanders’ Black Lives Matter Problem

The undocumented documentarian discusses why white Americans—including presidential candidates—have trouble talking about race.

Karen Gwee

Who’s Behind the Smithsonian Museum’s $63 Million Ode to American Capitalism?

Just who you would think.

Gov. Walker Gets Off ‘Scot-Free’ For Alleged Campaign Finance Violations

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has halted an investigation into Walker's questionable campaign finance tactics.

Why the Youngest Country on Earth Can’t Escape the Yoke of Colonialism

'We Come as Friends' captures the Western exploitation of South Sudan from the moment of its conception

Michael Atkinson

The Bernie Debate: Would Sanders Advance Feminism and Racial Justice Better Than Clinton?

Feminists debate symbolism, socialism and racial politics in the presidential race

Fall In Love with Your Job, Get Ripped Off by Your Boss

Miya Tokumitsu's sharp new book exposes the "Do what you love" fairy tale for what it really is: a means of exploitation.

How an Anti-Austerity Protest Candidate Became the Frontrunner for Labour’s Leadership

Jeremy Corbyn's left campaign is shaking up UK Labour

How One Group of Moms Is Keeping the Peace on One of Chicago’s Most Violent Street Corners

The group wants to make one thing clear: Young black men are not the enemy.

Lillian Osborne and Jessica Stites

Mr. Robot Is the Anti-Capitalist TV Show We’ve Been Waiting For

By placing class warfare front and center, Mr. Robot makes socialism a vibrant force again in popular culture, its aims urgent and compelling.

The Brooklyn Tenant Union That’s Fighting Gentrification Through Collective Bargaining

For the past two years, the Crown Heights Tenant Union of Brooklyn has used collective bargaining strategies to win victories around rent control and tenant protection laws.

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me” Forever Changes the Meaning of ‘The American Dream’

How to make Americans accept that their country was built and sustained on white supremacist plunder? Write like Ta-Nehisi Coates.

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