A Path for Immigrants?
To be decent, an immigration reform bill must set out a path to citizenship that isn’t paved with broken glass.
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February 25, 2013 Issue
Cover art by: Cover design by Milton Glaser Incorporated
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Editorial
Noted
Bryce Covert on domestic workers and immigration reform, Scott Sherman on the fight over fair trade, Francis Reynolds on Upwor...
One Easy Way to Shine a Light on Dark Money
A former FCC commissioner points out that the agency can simply enforce a campaign finance disclosure requirement that’s already on the books.
Fifty-four Nations Are Implicated in a CIA Torture Scheme
A new report shows that a central element of the Bush administration response to 9/11 was itself to spread terror—on a global scale.
Column
The Missing Link in Obama’s Liberalism
The president's inaugural address touched all the important bases, except one.
Immigration Is Not a Domestic Issue
Whatever reform passes in Washington, poverty in the global South will continue to drive migration.
Letters
Feature
Why Are Conservatives Trying to Destroy the Voting Rights Act?
A five-decade bipartisan consensus on this key piece of civil rights legislation has collapsed—right when we need its protections more than ever before.
How Two-Tier Union Contracts Became Labor’s Undoing
Establishing lower pay for new hires, these agreements have undermined union solidarity by opening a gulf between generations.
Time to Face the Truth About Iran
The Islamic Republic has survived for so long because its basic model is, according to numerous surveys, what a majority of Iranians actually want.
The Great Regression
The decline of the progressive income tax and the rise of inequality.
Books & the Arts
Making Strange: On Victor Shklovsky
A Russian novelist’s fight, in life and art, to see the world afresh in all its cruelty and splendor.
