October 2016 Volume 40, Issue 10

October 2016

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Viewpoint

The Left Deserves Better Than Jill Stein Kate Aronoff

Should Silicon Valley Really Be Allowed To Decide What Is and Isn’t Hate Speech? Susan J. Douglas

Tilting at Windmills Michael Hutchins and Rebecca Leber

On the Clinton Foundation, Why Are Journalists Telling Us to Look the Other Way? Joel Bleifuss

Feature

The Reverend Who Preached Against Hate While Nazis Marched on Her Elizabeth Adetiba

Meet the Berniecrat On Her Way to the U.S. House After One of This Year’s Biggest Progressive Wins Rachelle Hampton

Inside DuPont and Monsanto’s Migrant Labor Camps Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

The Execution That Birthed a Movement Jen Marlowe and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

If You Thought Obama Was Giving Less Military Gear to Local Police Departments, You Were Wrong Seth Kershner

Welcome To The Next Incarnation of the Bernie Sanders Campaign Kate Aronoff and Ethan Corey

Dispatch

Meet the Baltimore Activists Trying to Stop the Next Oil Train Explosion Bruce Vail

August Was a Huge Month for Berniecrats Alex Ding

Culture

The Hairdresser of Plaistow Jane Miller

A Brief History of the Right’s Racist Hate: From 1885 to Trump Theo Anderson

From Collection to Community: The Transformation of Detroit’s Iconic, 30-Year Public Art Project Leyland DeVito

Inside the Tax-Avoidance Racket of “Wealth Management” Chris Lehmann

The Stories We Live By: Why the White Working Class Votes Conservative Theo Anderson

In Ixcanul, Guatemala’s First-Ever Oscar Entry, Feminism Erupts in a Small Mayan Community Michael Atkinson

Investigation

Native Americans Are Being Killed by Police at a Higher Rate Than Any Other Group Stephanie Woodard

The Reverend Who Preached Against Hate While Nazis Marched on Her

Why Rev. Traci Blackmon went to Charlottesville.

Elizabeth Adetiba

Meet the Berniecrat On Her Way to the U.S. House After One of This Year’s Biggest Progressive Wins

Pramila Jayapal was one of the first down-ballot candidates to receive Bernie Sanders’ endorsement—and now she’s advancing to the November election, where she’s expected to easily win the heavily Democratic district.

Rachelle Hampton

Inside DuPont and Monsanto’s Migrant Labor Camps

Our investigation reveals that multibillion-dollar Big Ag corporations routinely use labor recruiters who crowd migrant workers in housing riddled with health and safety violations.

Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

The Execution That Birthed a Movement

Troy Davis' death on Sept. 21, 2011, transformed Occupy and kindled Black Lives Matter.

Jen Marlowe and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

If You Thought Obama Was Giving Less Military Gear to Local Police Departments, You Were Wrong

Despite the President's executive order, police are receiving as much hardware from the Pentagon as ever.

Seth Kershner

Welcome To The Next Incarnation of the Bernie Sanders Campaign

Our Revolution has big ambitions, but is still figuring out its role within the movement.

Kate Aronoff and Ethan Corey

InvestigationGoodman Institute

Native Americans Are Being Killed by Police at a Higher Rate Than Any Other Group

These deaths are rarely covered in the media, but now, Native groups are organizing for justice in a growing Native Lives Matter movement.

Stephanie Woodard

The Hairdresser of Plaistow

The happy, often glamorous life of the man who cuts my hair.

The Left Deserves Better Than Jill Stein

Stein’s Green Party run doesn’t offer a plan to win, or to build power. The Left is capable of so much more.

A Brief History of the Right’s Racist Hate: From 1885 to Trump

The road to Trumpism is paved with scapegoats.

Should Silicon Valley Really Be Allowed To Decide What Is and Isn’t Hate Speech?

The internet is a bastion of free speech—but that's not always a good thing.

Susan J. Douglas

Meet the Baltimore Activists Trying to Stop the Next Oil Train Explosion

Baltimore residents campaign against the rail transport of highly flammable crude oil through residential neighborhoods.

Tilting at Windmills

Wind and solar energy may be our best bet against fossil fuels. Can that justify their grave cost to wildlife?

Michael Hutchins and Rebecca Leber

From Collection to Community: The Transformation of Detroit’s Iconic, 30-Year Public Art Project

The Heidelberg Project is being partly dismantled, but hopes to live on as an artistic community.

On the Clinton Foundation, Why Are Journalists Telling Us to Look the Other Way?

Hillary Clinton’s media sycophants appear to have forgotten how political corruption works.

Inside the Tax-Avoidance Racket of “Wealth Management”

A sociologist's new book reveals how the ultra-rich starve public coffers and undermine democracy.

The Stories We Live By: Why the White Working Class Votes Conservative

In Strangers in Their Own Land, sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild travels south to study what gives conservative ideology its power.

August Was a Huge Month for Berniecrats

Bernie Sanders' presidential bid is over—but as his campaign army deploys down-ballot, more and more progressive challengers are claiming victory.

In Ixcanul, Guatemala’s First-Ever Oscar Entry, Feminism Erupts in a Small Mayan Community

Filmed entirely in Kaqchikel, Jayro Bustamante’s new movie explores a clash between reproductive rights and tradition.

Michael Atkinson

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