December 2015 Volume 39, Issue 12

December 2015

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Viewpoint

Will the Media Again Rush to Declare Clinton the Winner of Tonight’s Democratic Forum? Joel Bleifuss

The United States’ Deplorable Parental Leave Policies Are Hurting Our Kids’ Futures Susan J. Douglas

20 Years After the Million Man March, Louis Farrakhan Can Still Draw A Crowd—And Make Media Uneasy Salim Muwakkil

Feature

The Robots Are Coming. Whether They’ll Be Job Terminators or Job Transformers Is Up to Us. David Moberg

What Is Actually Radical About Bernie Sanders’ Democratic Socialism Isn’t the Socialism Theo Anderson

Meet the Green Chemist Who Is Out To Make Chemicals Less Toxic for Humans and the Environment Valerie Brown

Meet the 24-Year-Old “RINO Hunter” On a Mission To Purge the GOP of Moderates Waleed Shahid

How Wall Street Is Cashing In on Climate Catastrophe Kate Aronoff

Dispatch

How One City Is Making Sure Bosses Comply With Wage Theft and Paid Sick Leave Laws Jake Blumgart

Fewer Police, Safer Communities? Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Culture

The Great Academic Novel Joanna Scutts

The Barriers to Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Europe Jane Miller

Trapped in the Prison of Right-Wing Pundit Dinesh D’Souza’s Paranoid Mind Chris Lehmann

Love in the Time of 3D Boners Michael Atkinson

How Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Became the Supreme Meme Queen Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

The Robots Are Coming. Whether They’ll Be Job Terminators or Job Transformers Is Up to Us.

Don't fear the robot.

David Moberg

What Is Actually Radical About Bernie Sanders’ Democratic Socialism Isn’t the Socialism

It isn't a particularly radical political vision—it's an unflinching commitment to democracy.

Theo Anderson

Meet the Green Chemist Who Is Out To Make Chemicals Less Toxic for Humans and the Environment

John Warner brings us Green Chemistry, challenging chemists' toxicology standards.

Valerie Brown

Meet the 24-Year-Old “RINO Hunter” On a Mission To Purge the GOP of Moderates

Zachary Werrell helped take down former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Speaker John Boehner. Now he's taking on the entire Republican establishment.

Waleed Shahid

How Wall Street Is Cashing In on Climate Catastrophe

Come hell or high water, the finance industry will make a killing

Kate Aronoff

How One City Is Making Sure Bosses Comply With Wage Theft and Paid Sick Leave Laws

Seattle's labor regulators are now under one roof.

The Great Academic Novel

At the ripe age of 50, John Williams' "Stoner" is getting the attention it deserves

The Barriers to Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Europe

The contrasts between the lives of Europeans and the lives of refugees

Trapped in the Prison of Right-Wing Pundit Dinesh D’Souza’s Paranoid Mind

A stint in the slammer convinced the conservative author that liberals are crooks, as he lays out in his new book Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me About Obama, Hillary and the Democratic Party.

Love in the Time of 3D Boners

Do the genitalia in Gaspar Noé’s Love herald the rise or the fall of 3D cinema?

Michael Atkinson

Fewer Police, Safer Communities?

The tension between safety from police and safety from crime

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Will the Media Again Rush to Declare Clinton the Winner of Tonight’s Democratic Forum?

Why TV's talking heads discount Bernie Sanders

The United States’ Deplorable Parental Leave Policies Are Hurting Our Kids’ Futures

While wealthy parents pour more resources into their children's futures, middle- and lower-income families are being squeezed, resulting in an education gap

Susan J. Douglas

20 Years After the Million Man March, Louis Farrakhan Can Still Draw A Crowd—And Make Media Uneasy

The 82-year old Nation of Islam leader filled the National Mall in October. Why didn't the media take much notice?

How Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Became the Supreme Meme Queen

The psychology behind the 'Notorious RBG' phenomenon.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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