April 2017 Volume 41, Issue 04

April 2017

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Viewpoint

Don’t Wait for Nuremberg: Congress Must Investigate the American Eichmanns Chris Edelson

Feature

What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Rural Poverty Lauren Kaori Gurley

Our Cotton Colonies Meta Krese, Photography by Jošt Franko

Staughton Lynd Is Building a New World in the Basement of the Old Moshe Z. Marvit

The Right-Wing Machine Behind the Curtain Theo Anderson

How the Democratic Establishment Beat Back Keith Ellison’s DNC Bid Cole Stangler

Dispatch

How San Francisco Student Activists Made College Free Again s.e. smith

Culture

To Form a More Corporate Union Chris Lehmann

Toward a Real-Life Zootopia Dayton Martindale

View of the Swamp from Across the Pond Jane Miller

The Best Police Money Can Buy Kristian Williams

Girl, You’ll Be a Cannibal Soon Michael Atkinson

What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Rural Poverty

Unemployment, depopulation and the legacy of slavery in Jefferson County, Miss.

Lauren Kaori Gurley

Our Cotton Colonies

We follow a T-shirt’s supply chain from Burkina Faso to Bangladesh to your local mall—and back again.

Meta Krese, Photography by Jošt Franko

Staughton Lynd Is Building a New World in the Basement of the Old

The longtime lawyer and advocate on steel, SNCC and carving spaces beyond capitalism.

Moshe Z. Marvit

The Right-Wing Machine Behind the Curtain

The radical conservative Heritage Foundation has spent 40 years trying to gut the federal budget. Now Trump is proving to be the perfect tool.

Theo Anderson

How the Democratic Establishment Beat Back Keith Ellison’s DNC Bid

Despite the setback, progressives remain determined to democratize the party and empower the left wing.

Cole Stangler

To Form a More Corporate Union

The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States shows that Trump's greed is no aberration.

Toward a Real-Life Zootopia

How a fuller conception of freedom can help humans and others coexist.

Dayton Martindale

View of the Swamp from Across the Pond

As the U.K. barrels toward Brexit, Trump provides Britain with another bizarre spectacle.

The Best Police Money Can Buy

In the Fox series APB, police misconduct doesn't exist, and privatization and technology can fix any problem.

Kristian Williams

How San Francisco Student Activists Made College Free Again

City College of San Francisco will be the first in the nation to offer free tuition to all city residents.

Don’t Wait for Nuremberg: Congress Must Investigate the American Eichmanns

Troubling reports suggest border agents are going above and beyond to enforce Trump's will.

Girl, You’ll Be a Cannibal Soon

A new French horror film explores identity, coming of age and the various temptations of the flesh.

Michael Atkinson

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