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Feature
Breaking Up With Occupy
On its second anniversary, a sense of failure pervades the Occupy movement, as many core activists have moved on with their lives. But was it really all for naught?
Nathan Schneider
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Fashion Models Are Workers, Too
Defying stereotypes, the Model Alliance gets serious about organizing—and writes its own law to protect the most vulnerable models: children and young teens.
Elizabeth Cline
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Dollarocracy
Special interests dominate Washington and undermine our democracy.
John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney
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Editorial
A Win for Diplomacy
President Obama can now embark on a new foreign policy, one that rejects military interventionism in favor of an engaged internationalism.
The Editors
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Bill de Blasio, Liberal and Proud
Why his campaign for NYC mayor has ignited the passion of New York’s progressives.
The Editors
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Syria: Alternative to War
A diplomatic solution is possible.
Stephen F. Cohen and Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Egypt’s Syrian Scapegoats
Syrians fleeing the fighting at home have found themselves targeted amid Egypt’s political upheaval.
Sharif Abdel Kouddous
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Schools Need More Than the Common Core
The latest “school reform” silver bullet fails to address how children learn.
Pedro Noguera
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Column
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Poverty in 2013: When Even Diapers Are a Luxury
Being a poor mother in the United States today means reusing diapers and struggling to afford food. But House Republicans think they have it too easy.
Katha Pollitt
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Books & the Arts
The Long Goodbye: On Steven Soderbergh
Hollywood’s wonkiest director hasn’t stopped working. He’s finding new problems to solve—and toying with us again.
Akiva Gottlieb
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Shelf Life
Robert Neer’s Napalm: An American Biography; Juliette Volcler’s Extremely Loud: Sound as a Weapon
Peter C. Baker
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Great Perturbations: On George Packer
The Unwinding is a fine-grained account of economic collapse that runs aground on causeless abstractions.
Chris Lehmann
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 3294
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto