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Vol. 25 No. 1January/February
Columns
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Health Reform's Next Test
Will low enrollment in 2014 drive premiums higher for 2015? -
Want to Rock the Vote? Fill the Election Assistance Commission.
Long lines and broken machines could be fixed with proper oversight. All congress needs to do is fill the empty slots on the "zombie commission."
Notebook
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The Conversation: Elizabeth Kolbert and Bill McKibben
Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, and McKibben, founder of 350.org, discuss raising awareness about environmental catastrophe.
Culture
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The Urban Poor Shall Inherit Poverty
Sociologist Patrick Sharkey proves a mother’s insecure upbringing harms her child as surely as a neighbor’s broken window. -
The Man Who Knew Too Little
A CIA memoir whose emptiness is something to contemplate -
The Moment of Creation
Do America’s current challenges in the Middle East trace back to Harry Truman’s 1948 missteps? -
The Coen Brothers' Goodbye Song
Inside Llewyn Davis deepens the duo's turn from satire to elegy
Features
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James Madison’s Worst Nightmare
Today’s Republicans have become the very kind of obstructionist faction—with apocalyptic politics—that the primary author of our Constitution warned us against. -
This Land Was Your Land
In Utah and other Western states, the country's most pristine wilderness faces new threats from Big Energy and its powerful allies. -
The Fed Transformed
Ben Bernanke rescued the economy. Now Janet Yellen needs to remake the financial system. -
Dan Cantor's Machine
New York’s Working Families Party has built the most effective political operation the American left has seen in decades. Can it duplicate its success in other states?
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Vol. 24 No. 6November/December
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Fruits of Republican Folly
Public support of the GOP has dipped sharply, but it falls to the Democrats to find a way to take advantage of the moment. -
Fifty Shades of Purple
If the parties started competing for votes across the map, the real winner wouldn't be Democrats or Republicans; it would be small-d democracy.
Notebook
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Poor, with Savings
New York is helping low-income families pay down debts and cover expenses. But don’t expect this program to go national. -
In the Weeds
Can Colorado and Washington make legal marijuana work?
Culture
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Dave Eggers Is Worried about America
The famously hopeful novelist's move to dystopian fiction in The Circle. -
Soul Food's Contested History
Does a new account with recipes get it right? -
Bretton Woods Revisited
John Maynard Keynes’s monetary strategy was awkward and utopian. Don’t underestimate what it accomplished. -
Korean Lit Comes to America
The country frets that it trails China and Japan, which have won literary Nobels. -
Eric Schlosser, Bard of Folly
What the Command and Control author is teaching Americans about our reliance on technology. -
Jezebel Grew Up
The website used upstart humor to teach feminism to a generation. Now it’s a media “influencer.”
Features
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What Divides Democrats
It’s economics: Cory Booker’s Wall Street liberalism versus Bill de Blasio’s anti-corporate populism. These divisions will shape the 2016 presidential contest. -
The People's Court?
If you want to see where the problems of unaffordable housing and low wages and poor education play out every day, go to Detroit's 36th District Court.
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Vol. 24 No. 5September/October 2013
Columns
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Can Republicans Buck the Tea Party?
While Congress has done its darndest to kill the Affordable Care Act, Republican governors in some swing states have taken a lead in pushing for Medicaid expansion. -
Let's Shut Down the Filibuster
Why it made sense for Democrats to take the risk of ending the filibuster on most nominations.
Notebook
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Pandora's Box
How do we harness the power of 3-D printing while protecting ourselves from its dark side? -
Daddy's Home!
In California, a growing number of fathers are taking advantage of paid parental leave.
Culture
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We Shall Overwhelm
A new book explores when and why America’s rich protest. -
Rise of the “Nones”
America’s rapidly changing religious landscape -
The Conflicted Gay Pioneer
Donald Webster Cory's 1951 landmark book, The Homosexual in America, inspired early activists. Then he disavowed its message. -
Last Day of a Young Black Man
Fruitvale Station's intimate portrait of Oscar Grant promises better days ahead for black film. -
Reagan's Court v. the Libertarians'
A new crop of Supreme Court books show Chief Justice Roberts siding with his hero's ghost—for now. -
Mailer's Mark
His writing turned out to be mortal. But in post–World War II American culture, he’s still a giant.
Features
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The Robot Invasion
The question that haunted the post-war industrial tech boom of the 1950s is rising again: Have we reached a stage at which technology is destroying more jobs than it's creating? -
The 40-Year Slump
From 1954 thought 1974, American workers brought home most of the wealth that they produced. Since 1974, they've steadily lost power—and they're getting just a fraction of the wealth they produce today. -
The Evangelist
Jim Gilliam of NationBuilder says his software will "democratize democracy." So why do many of his progressive friends consider him a traitor? -
The Task Rabbit Economy
At the rate things are going, tens of millions of us could end up as temps, contract employees, call-center operators, and the like.
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Vol. 24 No. 4July/August 2013
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Must Austerity Keep Winning?
To defeat government bashing, we need public support for the middle-class emblems of higher education and housing. -
Republicans vs. Democracy in North Carolina
GOP lawmakers are trying to turn the South’s most progressive election laws into the nation’s most restrictive. But will they win the battle and lose the war?
Notebook
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Our Passivity Surplus
As recent calamities show, change takes empathy—plus insisting on making yourself heard. -
The Ex-Con Factor
Felony-disenfranchisement laws suppress black turnout enough to swing elections, and the future of reform is murky. -
When I'm Old and Gay
Retirement can be sweet for well-off LGBT elders, but it is fraught with perils for most.
Culture
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If Pot Becomes Legal
What will become of its secretive California hometown? -
New Treasure in Maine
The Colby College Museum of Art reopens, ready to share its $100 million gift and quietly bold vision. -
Take Me Out with the Crowd
Can numbers-happy fantasy sports replace team play as a metaphor for the American way of living? -
George Packer's U.S.A.
The author's chronicle of solitary Americans after the financial crash is nostalgic—but for what, exactly? -
Agee, Before He Was Famous
Can a rediscovered first draft of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men speak more directly to our time than the finished masterpiece? -
The North Wing
The Danish series Borgen is a huge hit in Europe. Will its mixture of raw politics, social democratic ideals, and human frailties succeed in the U.S.?
Features
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L.A. Story
The Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy: a new model for American liberalism? -
Fashioning Justice for Bangladesh
Western multinationals are behind disasters like the Bangladesh factory collapse. Will public outrage and a new labor agreement lead to improvements for workers? -
What's Killing Poor White Women?
For most Americans, life expectancy continues to rise—but not for uneducated white women. They have lost five years, and no one knows why. -
Los Infiltradores
How three young undocumented activists risked everything to expose the injustices of immigrant detention—and invented a new form of protest. -
The Withered Writ
Habeas corpus, the age-old means for prisoners to challenge their detention, has never been more restricted than it is now.
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Vol. 24 No. 3May/June 2013
Columns
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Bad Faith and Budget Politics
Obama has to do business with people who cannot be trusted to own up to their side of a deal. -
Ted Talk
The Tea Party doesn't expect its politicians to get things done; it sends them to Washington to previent things from being done.
Notebook
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The New New Haven
How a union of Yale employees aligned itself with community activists and won control of a beleaguered city.
Culture
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Rediscovering Albert Hirschman
Resistance fighter. Development economist. Philosopher. A new biography of the thinker who redeemed political economy for liberals. -
When It Comes to Kindles, Do You "Like" or Unlink?
Social reading will bring us together while restoring a long tradition in the history of the book. Still … -
Greta Gerwig, Dancing with Herself
The anti-celebrity of the Frances Ha star -
Sheryl Sandberg’s Can-Do Feminism
Why she’s a reformer in the church of meritocracy and not a heretic -
The New Deal That Could Have Been
How the white-supremacist South made possible the New Deal—and drastically curtailed it.
Special Report
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A Shredded Safety Net
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Children of Color in the Persistent Downturn
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The Wealthy Kids Are All Right
In a tough economy with dwindling social supports, children of privilege have a bigger head start than ever. -
Children of the Great Collapse
The stimulus was great for poor kids while it lasted. Now even bare-bones aid is at risk. -
The Millennial Squeeze
It's not Social Security deficits that are destroying the life chances of the young but a prolonged slump confounded by bad policies. -
Cascading Effects of Parental Stress
Economic hardship reverberates through the family in multiple ways that harm children.
Features
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Can Obama's Organizing Army Take Texas?
Progressive Texans just might lead a Democratic revival in the ultimate red state. Here's how. -
North Carolina's Tug-of-War
What happens when a state becomes more progressive and more conservative at the same time? -
Virginia's New Dominion
How soon will changing demographics swamp old Virginia's Republicans? -
Ghosts of the Rio Grande
Every year hundreds of immigrants die along the U.S.-Mexico border. Too many are never identified. -
A River Runs Through It
Everyone agrees that the only way to fix the Gulf of Mexico dead zone—the largest off the United States—is to fix the Mississippi, but not everyone agrees how. -
The End of the Solid South
The region's emerging majority is progressive. Its capitols are more conservative than ever. Something's got to give.
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