August 31-September 7, 2015 Issue
Cover art by: Kent Porter / Press Democrat
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Feature
Ten Years Since: A Meditation on New Orleans
We are black and alive, still, despite what the pictures say.
Kristina Kay Robinson
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Why the Lower Ninth Ward Looks Like the Hurricane Just Hit
The neighborhood’s stalled recovery is the self-fulfilling prophecy of political leaders who wrote it off from the start.
Gary Rivlin
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A Movement Lab in New Orleans
The 10-year fight for a just recovery from Hurricane Katrina has driven a surge in innovative, progressive organizing.
Jordan Flaherty
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Editorial
What Roger Ailes Really Thinks of Donald Trump
Fox News set Trump up to fail at the first GOP debate. So why is he still on top?
Eric Alterman
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From New Orleans to Ferguson, a Decade of Asserting Black Lives Matter
We’ve learned that the moment black people stop saying our lives matter, our lives will cease to matter.
Melissa Harris-Perry and James Perry
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Donald Trump Is the Only Game in Town For Today’s GOP
The other candidates just look like pallid imitations, too wary of offending the party’s alienated base to risk disagreeing with the blond bloviator.
D.D. Guttenplan
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Why Maria Ochoa Has Crossed the Desert 100 Times
An interview with the cofounder of Tucson Samaritans.
Sasha Abramsky
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Black Lives Matter Is a Demand, Not a Plea
The movement’s protests targeting Bernie Sanders have provoked heated debate among progressive politicos—and that’s just fine.
Kai Wright
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Books & the Arts
The Work of Art in the Age of Spectacular Reproduction
The Internet gives us an unearned relation to the present, and the visual art of JR is perfectly aligned with it.
Jesse McCarthy
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White Elephants
As governments have changed in Egypt, the commitment to corrupt grand development projects has stayed the same.
Frederick Deknatel
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House of the Dispossessed
Angela Flournoy's The Turner House is a story of the living and the lost.
Hannah Gold
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Letters
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