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Feature
Dust Bowl Blues
A severe drought in the Southwest is devastating crops and farm communities—and sending a warning about climate change.
Sasha Abramsky
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Can Fashion Clean Up Its Act?
In the wake of Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza disaster, consumers are showing new interest in brands that do right by their workers.
Elizabeth Cline
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The New Climate Radicals
Ken Ward and Jay O'Hara are reminiscent of the human-centered, Quaker-inspired anti-nuke founders of Greenpeace.
Wen Stephenson
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FDR’s Jewish Problem
How did a president beloved by Jews come to be regarded as an anti-Semite who refused to save them from the Nazis?
Laurence Zuckerman
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Editorial
Race, Law and the Zimmerman Verdict
The problem is not that Zimmerman was afforded the presumption of innocence. It is that Trayvon Martin was not—and that defendants who look like him are denied that right every day.
The Editors
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Our Lives on the Line
How long are we supposed to remain calm when the laws we are called on to respect are an open assault on our humanity?
Mychal Denzel Smith
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Egypt Rebels
The popular revolt against the incompetent Morsi government was inspiring—but the coup that followed sets a dangerous precedent.
The Editors
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The Year for Redemption
Afraid your record of sexual misconduct will ruin your electoral prospects? No problem!
Calvin Trillin
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North Carolina’s Moral Mondays
An inspiring grassroots movement is fighting back against the GOP’s outrageous budget cuts and attacks on democracy.
Ari Berman
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Islamism After the Coup in Egypt
Egypt cannot have a future as a viable, pluralistic democracy without the Muslim Brotherhood’s participation.
Mohamad Bazzi
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Column
The MSM and the Snowden Affair: Where True Loyalty Lies
Why, to Beltway reporters, Glenn Greenwald is no Bob Woodward.
Eric Alterman
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Fortress White America
Republicans long ago embraced a whites-only political strategy—and continue to reap its rewards in Southern states.
Richard Kim
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Books & the Arts
FDR’s Jewish Problem
How did a president beloved by Jews come to be regarded as an anti-Semite who refused to save them from the Nazis?
Laurence Zuckerman
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Running Like Shadows
Alexei Ratmansky’s Shostakovich Trilogy renders the composer’s world and life in the Soviet Union through dance at American Ballet Theatre.
Marina Harss
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Mountain Views
Angus Burgin revisits Friedrich Hayek’s Mont Pelerin Society in The Great Persuasion.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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Leakonomics: Edward Snowden and the Pirates
Bounties on the mutineers demonstrate the limits of transparency.
Joshua Clover
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Letters
Exchange: Get Thee to the Barricades!
Response to “Letter to The Nation From a Young Radical”
Our Readers and Bhaskar Sunkara
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 3289
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto