October 2015 Volume 39, Issue 10

October 2015

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Viewpoint

These Jimmy Carter Speeches Show Why He Was a Radical President Susan J. Douglas

Meet the Group of African-American Organizers Building Black Support for Bernie Sanders Salim Muwakkil

Is The Donald the New Ronald? Joel Bleifuss

Feature

NDP Rising Star Nathan Cullen on How Republican Tactics are Infecting Canadian Politics, and More Joel Bleifuss

Silicon Valley’s Labor Uprising s.e. smith

10 Years After Katrina, New Orleans’ All-Charter School System Has Proven a Failure Colleen Kimmett

Dispatch

Asylum Seekers Face Kafkaesque Ordeal at U.S.-Mexico Border John Washington

From Hashtag to Strategy: The Growing Pains of Black Lives Matter Bill Fletcher, Jr.

The City of Detroit Withheld Water From 40,000 People–So Activists Tapped the Mayor’s Mansion Lauren Gaynor

Culture

How California Birthed the Modern Right Wing Chris Lehmann

The Surefire Formula for Doing Good? Joanna Scutts

Clint Eastwood: The Good, the Bad and the Reactionary Eileen Jones

In Elena Ferrante’s Neopolitan Novels, Women’s Rage Is Both Pardonable and Malevolent Jane Miller

‘Welcome to Leith’ Charts A White Supremacist Attempt to Take Over a Tiny North Dakota Town Michael Atkinson

Investigation

U.S. Prisons and Jails Are Threatening the Lives of Pregnant Women and Babies Victoria Law

NDP Rising Star Nathan Cullen on How Republican Tactics are Infecting Canadian Politics, and More

The rising star of the socialist-leaning New Democratic Party discusses how Canadian Conservatives are learning from their neighbors to the south.

Joel Bleifuss

Silicon Valley’s Labor Uprising

Unions are spreading like wildfire through tech's low-wage workforce

s.e. smith

10 Years After Katrina, New Orleans’ All-Charter School System Has Proven a Failure

Test scores tell one story, and residents tell another. A three-month investigation by In These Times reveals the cracks in the education reform narrative.

Colleen Kimmett

How California Birthed the Modern Right Wing

Many of 20th-century conservatism's tricks were honed in 1930s agribusiness's fight against farmworkers

Asylum Seekers Face Kafkaesque Ordeal at U.S.-Mexico Border

Migrants have to choose between keeping their families together and finding safety.

John Washington

InvestigationGoodman Institute

U.S. Prisons and Jails Are Threatening the Lives of Pregnant Women and Babies

Our 6-month investigation reveals the horrific and shameful conditions facing pregnant prisoners—and the inhumane treatment they receive.

From Hashtag to Strategy: The Growing Pains of Black Lives Matter

Movement activists discuss strategy and tactics in #BlackLivesMatter.

Bill Fletcher, Jr.

The Surefire Formula for Doing Good?

The altruists profiled in Strangers Drowning have made huge personal sacrifices for others. But what should we make of their extremely individualistic approach?

These Jimmy Carter Speeches Show Why He Was a Radical President

Carter's forgotten legacy: his radical speeches while in office. We've shifted so far to the right that it's astounding to recall that a sitting president talked like this.

Susan J. Douglas

Clint Eastwood: The Good, the Bad and the Reactionary

Patrick McGilligan's unauthorized biography of the film legend, updated through 2015, suffers from bastard fatigue: There are just too many examples of Eastwood's perfidy.

Meet the Group of African-American Organizers Building Black Support for Bernie Sanders

Will grassroots organizing within the black electorate be able to challenge Clinton’s hegemony?

In Elena Ferrante’s Neopolitan Novels, Women’s Rage Is Both Pardonable and Malevolent

The mysterious, wildly popular Italian novelist excels at crises and contradictions

Is The Donald the New Ronald?

Reagan's candidacy was a punchline until it wasn't.

The City of Detroit Withheld Water From 40,000 People–So Activists Tapped the Mayor’s Mansion

The action was a bid to draw attention to what the UN has called a violation of human rights

‘Welcome to Leith’ Charts A White Supremacist Attempt to Take Over a Tiny North Dakota Town

A new documentary by Michael Nichols and Christopher Walker explores a firefight between American individualism and the public good

Michael Atkinson

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