August 2016 Volume 40, Issue 08

August 2016

Get 10 issues for $19.95

Subscribe to the print magazine.

Subscribe Now

Viewpoint

‘Marketplace Feminism’ and the Commodification of Empowerment Susan J. Douglas

Feature

Inside the Corporate Utopias Where Capitalism Rules and Labor Laws Don’t Apply Matt Kennard and Claire Provost

Meet Chris Antal, the U.S. Army Chaplain Who Resigned Over the Drone Program Branko Marcetic

How to Make the Democratic Party Platform Actually Matter Maurice Isserman

What I Saw at the Summit Bhaskar Sunkara

Dispatch

Andrew Cuomo’s Blacklist for Critics of Israel Alex Kane

When Prisons Are Toxic to Both Humanity and the Environment John Washington

Culture

Sim City and the Worst Ways to End Homelessness Rebecca Burns

These Newly Restored Indie Films from Cinema’s Early Days Show Black Life From a Black Perspective Michael Atkinson

Filmmakers Adapt John le Carré’s Spy Novels for the Age of Snowden Jake Blumgart

Socialism for Beginners Richard Seymour

Donald Trump’s Fingers Were Always Short Chris Lehmann

The Tragedy of Brexit Jane Miller

Inside the Corporate Utopias Where Capitalism Rules and Labor Laws Don’t Apply

Our reporters gained access to three of the world’s “special economic zones”—and found paradises for corporations and wastelands for workers’ rights.

Matt Kennard and Claire Provost

Meet Chris Antal, the U.S. Army Chaplain Who Resigned Over the Drone Program

'We have morally disengaged, outsourcing our killing, forgetting that the bloodshed is on our hands too.'

Branko Marcetic

How to Make the Democratic Party Platform Actually Matter

Bernie Sanders’ delegates have shaped the most progressive platform ever. History shows what it takes to turn that into policy.

Maurice Isserman

What I Saw at the Summit

The People’s Summit wasn’t perfect—but it was a start.

Bhaskar Sunkara

Sim City and the Worst Ways to End Homelessness

The neoliberal mindset doesn't compute with ethical public policy.

These Newly Restored Indie Films from Cinema’s Early Days Show Black Life From a Black Perspective

A five-disc DVD set offers a glimpse into pre-civil rights era black culture.

Michael Atkinson

‘Marketplace Feminism’ and the Commodification of Empowerment

Andi Zeisler's new book We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement takes on corporate exploitation of the feminist movement.

Susan J. Douglas

Filmmakers Adapt John le Carré’s Spy Novels for the Age of Snowden

The BBC miniseries The Night Manager and new film Our Kind of Traitor fumble with morality and power.

Andrew Cuomo’s Blacklist for Critics of Israel

Activists take aim at the lawmakers trying to silence BDS.

Socialism for Beginners

The radical Left is becoming more mainstream—and conservatives are taking note.

Richard Seymour

When Prisons Are Toxic to Both Humanity and the Environment

Activists are taking aim at mass incarceration, environmental pollution and the toxic prisons where the two problems meet.

John Washington

Donald Trump’s Fingers Were Always Short

In business as in politics, there's never been much behind the splashy surface.

The Tragedy of Brexit

In Thursday's Brexit referendum, Britain decided its fate. But what will that fate be?

← July 2016 Who Can Stop Trump? September 2016 The Radicalism of Black Lives Matter →