April 23, 2012 Issue

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Feature

Elizabeth Warren: Yes She Can?

Progressives adore her. Conservatives despise her. But it’s Massachusetts’ fickle independents who’ll decide her high-stakes showdown with Scott Brown.
E.J. Graff
Thinking the Unthinkable on Iran

A war on Iran to stop its nuclear program would bring on a proliferation catastrophe.
Jonathan Schell

Editorial

Arizona’s Private Prisons: A Bad Bargain

State taxpayers have thrown away millions on shoddy facilities–and legislators think the solution is to bar them from oversight.
Sasha Abramsky
Obamacare: Not Dead Yet

Court watchers are pronouncing the death of healthcare reform. But a closer look at Justice Kennedy’s questions suggests there’s hope yet.
David Cole
Noted.

John Nichols on a new anti-ALEC coalition, Jeremy Scahill on WikiLeaks, Syria and Libya, Liliana Segura on The Jeffrey Deskovic Foundation for Justice, Ebtihal Mubarak on Saudi political prisoners.
Various Contributors
A Budget to Rebuild America

The Congressional Progressive Caucus and Senator Tom Harkin offer smart alternatives to the GOP’s extremist agenda.
The Editors
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Column

Why We Must Raise the Minimum Wage

Instead of making vague promises to create high-paying jobs, the government should increase wages for the jobs that actually exist.
Alexander Cockburn
The Hunger Games’ Feral Feminism

Katniss Everdeen is a new kind of pop heroine. No boy-crazy shopaholic, she’s a complex character on a quest of her own.
Katha Pollitt
End of the Line?

Calvin Trillin

Books & the Arts

A Double Inheritance: On Margaret Fuller

A nineteenth-century feminist’s exceptional life.
Vivian Gornick
Putting the World Into the World: On Alighiero Boetti

Opposites collapse in the work of the Shaman-Showman of contemporary Italian art.
Barry Schwabsky
Inescapable Smallness: On Jenny Erpenbeck

A young German novelist explores the logic of powerlessness.
Tristram Wolff
End of the Line?

Calvin Trillin
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