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Feature
Regulations Are Killed, and Kids Die
Under pressure, the Obama administration withdrew rules barring young laborers from dangerous work—a decision with grave consequences for several families.
Mariya Strauss
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Why Are Children Working in American Tobacco Fields?
Young farm workers are falling ill from “green tobacco sickness” while the industry denies it and government lets it happen.
Gabriel Thompson
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Editorial
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The Progressive Electoral Wave of 2013
The big story this November is a cross-country rejection of austerity and inequality and support for social justice.
The Editors
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Child Labor in the USA
The country must find the political will to end this national disgrace.
The Editors
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Time to End the Spying Game
Americans are justifiably upset about the NSA’s sweeping domestic surveillance. But we should be just as concerned about spying on foreigners.
David Cole
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‘We Had One Enemy; Now We Have Three’—A Conversation With Malalai Joya of Afghanistan
US forces used the plight of Afghan women to justify war—but twelve years later, women are still suffering.
Dani McClain
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Column
Village People
Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s Double Down entertains, but its contempt for liberalism shows on almost every page.
Eric Alterman
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The Myth of the Child-Stealing Roma
Europe’s panic is about race and class, not child abduction.
Gary Younge
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Books & the Arts
The Man Who Knew Almost Everything
Inside the great social historian Eric Hobsbawm there was an aesthete waiting to come out.
Ramachandra Guha
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Roman Holidays
Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty; Alexander Sokurov’s Faust; Wladyslaw Pasikowski’s Aftermath
Stuart Klawans
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 3303
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto