June 2016 Volume 40, Issue 06

June 2016

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Viewpoint

When Two Choices for President Aren’t Enough Joel Bleifuss

Ted Cruz’s ‘Lucifer’ Problem Susan J. Douglas

Hillary Clinton and the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations Theo Anderson

Feature

Meet the Rabbi Who Renounced Zionism and Embraced Palestinian Liberation Eli Massey

Life After Coal in Harlan County, U.S.A. Jeff Kelly Lowenstein

How to Make the Democratic Nominating Process Actually Democratic Larry Cohen

The Political Revolution Will Continue Long After Bernie Sanders’ Campaign. Here’s How. Ethan Corey

Dispatch

These Online Platforms Make Direct Democracy Possible Tom Ladendorf

The Fight for Public Control of Land in the Bronx Raven Rakia

Is Bernie Sanders Right That It’s Time to Phase Out Nuclear Energy? Will Boisvert and Jim Riccio

Culture

A French Take on John Wayne Michael Atkinson

The Case Against Using the GDP as a Measure of Economic Health Chris Lehmann

The Ship Breakers Peter Wieben

Cuts for the Poor, Tax Havens for the Rich Jane Miller

Jane Austen, Class Warrior Eileen Jones

Investigation

The Secret History of Superdelegates Branko Marcetic

Meet the Rabbi Who Renounced Zionism and Embraced Palestinian Liberation

When Brant Rosen spoke out against Israel's occupation of Palestine, he lost his Jewish spiritual community, but quickly found another.

Eli Massey

Life After Coal in Harlan County, U.S.A.

Kentucky's lifeblood is drying up.

Jeff Kelly Lowenstein

How to Make the Democratic Nominating Process Actually Democratic

A Sanders campaign advisor lays out 3 proposals.

Larry Cohen

The Political Revolution Will Continue Long After Bernie Sanders’ Campaign. Here’s How.

Grassroots groups plan to harness Bernie's momentum—and, if he agrees, his voter lists.

Ethan Corey

A French Take on John Wayne

When a French family tries to hold on to the past, it doesn't end well.

Michael Atkinson

The Case Against Using the GDP as a Measure of Economic Health

The GDP has always been a bitterly contested yardstick, explains Ehsan Masood in a new history.

These Online Platforms Make Direct Democracy Possible

New platforms are bringing power to the people.

When Two Choices for President Aren’t Enough

To address voter apathy, we need a new system

The Fight for Public Control of Land in the Bronx

Residents' last-ditch attempt to keep out a polluting trucking hub.

The Ship Breakers

Working the maritime graveyard shift

InvestigationGoodman Institute

The Secret History of Superdelegates

In July, 712 Democratic officials will decide the nomination—just as the party planned it.

Branko Marcetic

Cuts for the Poor, Tax Havens for the Rich

The Panama Papers expose the hypocrisy of England's oligarchs.

Jane Austen, Class Warrior

Most Austen adaptations are little more than 'buttoned-up, tea-drinking porn.' But Whit Stillman's new film 'Love & Friendship' foregrounds Austen's sharp observations on social mobility.

Is Bernie Sanders Right That It’s Time to Phase Out Nuclear Energy?

30 years after Chernobyl, some say we need nuclear power to stop climate change.

Will Boisvert and Jim Riccio

Ted Cruz’s ‘Lucifer’ Problem

If no Senators, Republican or Democrat, like Ted Cruz, why should American voters?

Susan J. Douglas

Hillary Clinton and the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations

Do young people oppose Clinton because they're sexist—or because they're looking for something more in politics?

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