April 12, 2010 Issue

Cover art by: Cover illustration by Drew Friedman, design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels

Feature

Hilda Solis: Labor’s New Sheriff

The Secretary of Labor has hired a crew of smart and savvy deputies to enforce the nation's labor laws.
Esther Kaplan
What Really Happened to Welfare

If there was ever a time for a serious "conspiracy" on behalf of the poor, this is it.
Barbara Ehrenreich
The Mad Tea Party

How Glenn Beck & Co. trumped up a vast left-wing conspiracy: the "Cloward-Piven strategy."
Richard Kim

Editorial

Iraq After the Elections

Despite signs that Iraqis are disenchanted with sectarian politics, the electorate's votes still broke sharply along communal lines.
Bob Dreyfuss
Noted.

John Nichols on the public option, remixed; Frederick Deknatel on sanctioning Arab satellite providers; Clarissa A. Leon on resisting the Texas Board of Ed.
The Editors
Immigrants on the March

Current proposals for immigration reform might fall short, but massive protest turnout breathed new life into a movement that had fallen by the wayside.
Gabriel Thompson
Obama’s Israel Problem

It's time for Obama to confront Netanyahu's intransigence directly.
The Editors
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Books & the Arts

To Curse and Fume

As our own yellow press goes from strength to strength, what can the history of slander and libel teach us?
Ruth Scurr
Shelf Life

Gary Wills's Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State; Elizabeth Arnold's Effacement.
John Palattella
Gramaphoons

A rock bottom, a bottom line, a body in extremis all make the poems of Graham Foust quaver and reel.
Ange Mlinko
The Crack-Up

The Latin American utopia has disappeared, says novelist and crackero Jorge Volpi, and he displays little nostalgia for it.
Ben Ehrenreich
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