April 16, 2012 Issue

Cover art by: Cover design by Milton Glaser Incorporated.

Feature

Participatory Democracy: From the Port Huron Statement to Occupy Wall Street

On its fiftieth anniversary, the founding declaration of SDS echoes today in democracy movements around the world.
Tom Hayden
A New Green Agenda for Commuters

How progressives can make energy a pocketbook issue, with greener rides—and greener wallets—for the middle class.
Lisa Margonelli

Editorial

Trayvon Martin: Guilty of Being Black

As long as black men are assumed to be armed and dangerous, Stand Your Ground laws will produce more Trayvon Martins.
The Editors
Do Republicans Think They Can Win Without Women?

If they believe that in exercising control over women’s reproductive functions, they will also control women’s voices, they are wrong.
Carol Gilligan
Noted.

Zoë Carpenter on a community radio victory, Dana Frank on the White House support for Honduras, James Murphy on Ireland’s Can’t Pay Won’t Pay Movement, Eric Alterman on Mike Daisey, plus a new poll on Afghanistan.
Various Contributors
Mike Check: A Few More Words on L’Affaire Daisey

In his defense, the embattled monologist stressed the differences between theater and journalism. Did he have a point?
Alisa Solomon
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Column

Punditry and the Art of Failing Upward

From William Kristol to Condi Rice to Joel Klein, conservatives turn disastrous decisions into fabulous careers. How do they do it?
Eric Alterman
Trayvon Martin: What It’s Like to Be a Problem

Despite the end of Jim Crow, it is once again socially, politically and legally acceptable to presume the guilt of nonwhite bodies.
Melissa Harris-Perry
The Situation

Calvin Trillin

Books & the Arts

Mike Check: A Few More Words on L’Affaire Daisey

In his defense, the embattled monologist stressed the differences between theater and journalism. Did he have a point?
Alisa Solomon
Young Adults

Gary Ross’s The Hunger Games, Terence Davies’s The Deep Blue Sea.
Stuart Klawans
‘I am not myself’

John Coletti
From ‘Brown’ to ‘Lawrence’: On the Struggle for Gay Civil Rights

Dale Carpenter’s exceptional account of the history of Lawrence v. Texas.
Michael O’Donnell
Food Fights

The use of food as a weapon during World War II.

Richard J. Evans
The Situation

Calvin Trillin
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