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The Audacity of Hugo

In fourteen years, Chávez radically transformed Venezuela’s economy and society—and the majority of country loved him for it.

Greg Grandin

A Brooklyn Corner

Day laborers who clean for ultra-Orthodox Jewish households are learning about their rights.

E. Tammy Kim

US-Style School Reform Goes South

Reformers are targeting Mexican teachers, wielding tests as a weapon. Sound familiar?

David Bacon

The NCAA: Poster Boy for Corruption and Exploitation

The annual hoops hysteria known as March Madness generates a tidal wave of revenue—but the players don’t receive a dime of it.

Dave Zirin

The Iraq Invasion, Ten Years Later

Is there any benefit to be found in an unbroken record of waste, futility and shame? Only if lessons learned prevent a catastrophe in Iran.

Jonathan Schell

Noted

Alleen Brown on the school closure epidemic, Elana Leopold on the impact of NYPD surveillance, Catherine Defontaine on Stéphane Hessel, and the editors on the fight against Geo Group

Various Contributors

Sherrod Brown Goes After the Big Banks

The Democratic senator is introducing legislation to break them up, but he’s in an uphill battle—against not only the GOP but his own party.

William Greider

Kim Jong-un, Dictator of North Korea and BFF of Dennis Rodman, Threatens to Use Nuclear Weapons Against the United States

Calvin Trillin

The Rehabilitation of Elliott Abrams

Eric Alterman

The Rehabilitation of Elliott Abrams

Eric Alterman

What Did Clausen See

Grzegorz Wróblewski

No Exit? Greece’s Ongoing Crisis

How do Greece’s economists and writers explain its social predicament?

Mark Mazower

Two Rights and A Wrong: On Taner Akçam

A historian’s view of why political demands, past and present, have weighed on Turkish debates about the Armenian genocide.

Holly Case

Letters

Immigration, second-class wages, torture and taboo

Our Readers and Samuel Moyn

Puzzle No. 3275

And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto