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Feature
The Occupy Spring?
As the weather heats up, so will the action. But what direction should the movement take?
Richard Kim
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The Purpose of Occupy Wall Street Is to Occupy Wall Street
The head of the beast can only be cut off at one place—and that’s downtown Manhattan.
Michael Moore
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Occupy Is Dead! Long Live Occupy!
The cohesive communities formed in town square in the fall are over, but the movement lives on.
Ilyse Hogue
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Occupy the Imagination
Occupy is the base upon which to build a mass left radical movement, one that challenges the system itself.
Bill Fletcher Jr.
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What Does Democracy Look Like?
The movement isn’t about reforming capitalism, it’s about creating a democracy that’s incompatible with capitalism.
Marina Sitrin
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More Than a Protest Movement
The American people aren’t looking for militants and vanguards, they want a full-service Occupy.
Todd Gitlin
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Occupy! and Make Them Do It
Elections and movements don’t proceed on separate tracks.
Frances Fox Piven
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Paint the Other Cheek
Debates about violence threaten to break apart the Occupy movement.
Nathan Schneider
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Labor and Occupy: A Match Made in…
Despite occasional friction, unions and Occupy have found a way to live happily together.
Gabriel Thompson
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Occupy the Media—and the Message
Unless the movement gets more strategic about its image, it may end up talking to itself.
Astra Taylor
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Horizontal Meets Vertical; Occupy Meets Establishment
To grow, the Occupy movement will need to connect with tens of millions of ordinary Americans.
Stephen Lerner
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If Vaclav Havel Met Occupy’s Human Mic…
The words of the former president of the Czech Republic resonate with the problems Occupy confronts today.
Jonathan Schell
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Occupying the Unexpected
The heart of the movement desires a new, different society.
Arun Gupta and Michelle Fawcett
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Occupy Climate Change
The same corporations that destroyed the economy are wrecking the planet. Occupy should do something about that.
Jeremy Brecher
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Editorial
Time to Get Out of Afghanistan
The mutual resentment between the Afghan people and the US military has broken out in the open.
The Editors
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Michael Harrington and the ‘Culture Of Poverty’
The Other America offered a view of poverty that seemed designed to comfort the already comfortable.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Noted
Katrina vanden Heuvel on Dennis Kucinich, John Nichols on Rush Limbaugh and Randy Hertz on Jackson v. Hobbs and Miller v. Alabama
Various Contributors
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David Grossman Speaks Out Against War With Iran
Addressing the issue publicly for the first time, Israel’s leading novelist says an attack would set in motion a “nightmare."
Larry Derfner
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Column
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Gaddis’s Kennan: Strategies of Disparagement
Intent on blaming the cold war simply on Soviet perfidy, John Lewis Gaddis does a disservice to the subject of his biography—and to his readers.
Eric Alterman
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Romney and Santorum: Two Faces of GOP Capitalism
There may be tension but there isn’t a class war within the Republican Party, because they’re all on the same side.
Gary Younge
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Books & the Arts
If Vaclav Havel Met Occupy’s Human Mic…
The words of the former president of the Czech Republic resonate with the problems Occupy confronts today.
Jonathan Schell
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Gaddis’s Kennan: Strategies of Disparagement
Intent on blaming the cold war simply on Soviet perfidy, John Lewis Gaddis does a disservice to the subject of his biography—and to his readers.
Eric Alterman
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Dreaming in French: On Angela Davis
Angela Davis’s student years in France were an alchemy of discipline and distraction.
Alice Kaplan
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Letters
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 3231
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Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto