December 17, 2012 Issue

Feature

Fracking Our Food Supply

Are dying cattle the canaries in the coal mine? Farmers and ranchers are sounding alarms about the risks to human health of hydraulic fracturing.
Elizabeth Royte
It’s the New Economy, Stupid

Efforts to reduce unemployment and curb inequality must be considered alongside urgent threats to the environment and democracy.
John Cavanagh and Robin Broad
A New Economy for the Developing World

Many governments and popular movements are embracing the need for systemic change.

John Cavanagh and Robin Broad

Editorial

The Walmart Rebellion

This year’s historic strike wave is an indictment not just of the retail giant’s business model but of our broken labor laws.

The Editors
How Students in San Jose Raised the Minimum Wage

A regional college class made social justice happen on November 6.

Gabriel Thompson
Noted

John Nichols on Jesse Jackson Jr.'s legacy, Steven Hsieh on human rights in Burma, Lucy McKeon on prosecuting stop-and-frisk protesters, Allison Kilkenny on Occupy’s Strike Debt movement

Various Contributors
How Mergermania Is Destroying Book Publishing

The merger of Penguin and Random House is part of a trend that has been deadly for literary authors and serious nonfiction.

André Schiffrin
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Column

A Short Message to Those Who Have Signed Petitions Asking to Secede From the Union

Calvin Trillin
Rupert Murdoch and the ‘Jewish Owned Press’

The Fox News owner resorted to an anti-Semitic canard in attacking alleged media bias against Israel.

Eric Alterman
The Irony of Right-Wing Secessionist Fantasies

Obama’s re-election inspired residents of states like Louisiana and Alabama to push for independence from the rest of the country. They should be careful what they wish for.

Gary Younge

Books & the Arts

How Mergermania Is Destroying Book Publishing

The merger of Penguin and Random House is part of a trend that has been deadly for literary authors and serious nonfiction.

André Schiffrin
Young and the Restless: On Brigham Young

How the American Moses became America’s first spiritual manager in the wilderness of Scripture-infused capitalism.
Chris Lehmann
A Brutal Peace: On the Postwar Expulsions of Germans

Did postwar population transfers complete a project of ethnic cleansing started by Hitler?

Tara Zahra
Econ-Geo: On Enrico Moretti

Geoeconomic arguments about jobs smuggle in neoliberal economics under the cover of geography.

Catherine Tumber
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