July 2017 Volume 41, Issue 07

July 2017

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Viewpoint

To Save the Revolution, Venzuelans Must Grapple With Chavismo’s Failures Mike Gonzalez

Where’s the Alternative to Trump’s Austerity Budget? Look to Bernie Sanders’ Progressive Caucus. Joel Bleifuss

Even by Trump’s Own Standards, His Budget Is Terrible Susan J. Douglas

Feature

Greek Squatters Transformed a Deserted Hotel Into a Sanctuary for Refugees. Now, They Face Eviction. Patrick O. Strickland

The Political Revolution Is Alive and Well in Nebraska Joel Bleifuss

Bernie Sanders Supporters Are Taking Over the Democratic Party Machine, One State at a Time Theo Anderson

Dispatch

Detroit’s Underground Economy: Where Capitalism Fails, Alternatives Take Root Valerie Vande Panne

Done Waiting for the Mule: Black Activists Seek To Occupy 40 Acres of Land this Juneteenth Aviana Willis

Atlantic City Could Be the Next Flint—But Residents Are Fighting To Save Their Water Kate Aronoff

Culture

The Frustrating Yet Beautiful Drama of “A Ghost Story” Michael Atkinson

Squatters’ 60-Year War Against Private Property Margaret Garb

The Fairy Tales Capitalists Tell Themselves Chris Lehmann

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay: Examining Britain’s Populist Revolt Jane Miller

Investigation

How Chicago’s Police Union Contract Ensures Abuses Remain in the Shadows Adeshina Emmanuel

Greek Squatters Transformed a Deserted Hotel Into a Sanctuary for Refugees. Now, They Face Eviction.

The left-wing Syriza government is cracking down on squats that house thousands of migrants in Athens.

Patrick O. Strickland

The Political Revolution Is Alive and Well in Nebraska

Climate campaigner and Democratic Party activist Jane Kleeb is lighting a fire on the prairie.

Joel Bleifuss

Bernie Sanders Supporters Are Taking Over the Democratic Party Machine, One State at a Time

From California to Massachusetts, a grassroots revolt from the left is wresting control of the party away from the corporate establishment.

Theo Anderson

The Frustrating Yet Beautiful Drama of “A Ghost Story”

Filmmaker David Lowery's latest is slow, but contains a few genuine spiritual ideas.

Michael Atkinson

Squatters’ 60-Year War Against Private Property

How propertied classes team up with the state to forcibly evict urban squatters.

Detroit’s Underground Economy: Where Capitalism Fails, Alternatives Take Root

Over decades of poverty, Detroiters have fostered a resilient informal economy based on trust.

Valerie Vande Panne

The Fairy Tales Capitalists Tell Themselves

The new book The Wisdom of Money amounts to morale-boosting capitalist agitprop.

InvestigationGoodman Institute

How Chicago’s Police Union Contract Ensures Abuses Remain in the Shadows

Activists are calling on the city to represent victims of police violence in upcoming contract negotiations.

Adeshina Emmanuel

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay: Examining Britain’s Populist Revolt

David Goodhart's The Road to Somewhere goes nowhere worth following.

Done Waiting for the Mule: Black Activists Seek To Occupy 40 Acres of Land this Juneteenth

In cities across the country, organizers for "Black Land and Liberation" are preparing to reclaim vacant spaces.

To Save the Revolution, Venzuelans Must Grapple With Chavismo’s Failures

A resurgent Right cannot be allowed to present itself as the only alternative.

Where’s the Alternative to Trump’s Austerity Budget? Look to Bernie Sanders’ Progressive Caucus.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus has proposed a radical People's Budget—but to pass it, we need to take over the Democratic Party.

Even by Trump’s Own Standards, His Budget Is Terrible

Trickle-down tax cuts and slashes to social spending aren't the path to a competitive economy.

Susan J. Douglas

Atlantic City Could Be the Next Flint—But Residents Are Fighting To Save Their Water

Chris Christie-appointed officials may soon privatize the city's water utility.

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