December 5, 2011 Issue
Cover art by: Cover design by Milton Glaser Incorporated
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Feature
How Online Learning Companies Bought America’s Schools
Under the banner of high-tech progress, corporate lobbyists have rammed through legislation privatizing K-12 education across the country.
Lee Fang
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Why Europe Needs a New Deal
After months of political upheaval and chaos in the bond markets, few investors believe austerity programs are a route to growth and debt reduction.
Andy Robinson
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Will Egypt’s Arab Spring Turn Into an Arab Nightmare?
On the eve of elections, those who once united in defiance of the Mubarak regime have fragmented into antagonistic camps.
Omneya El Naggar
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Editorial
You Cannot Evict an Idea
Bloomberg's raid on Occupy Wall Street was, above all, a cowardly act. But Occupy will live on with or without Liberty Square.
The Editors
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The Keystone Victory
The moment couldn't have been more ripe for a real advance in the fight against climate change.
Mark Hertsgaard
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Noted.
Jessica Weisberg on Russell Pearce and the GOP and Jonah Engle on the fight to end the War on Drugs.
Various Contributors
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Police Surveillance in the Digital Age: 24/7, Without a Warrant
That's what the Obama administration is arguing for, in a crucial case now before the Supreme Court.
David Cole
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Column
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Herman Cain: What Hi-Tech Lynching?
More than two weeks after the GOP candidate was accused of sexual harassment, Republican men still support him.
Melissa Harris-Perry
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Books & the Arts
Hemispheric Disturbances: On Michael Gazzaniga
If our brains act according to the causal laws governing all matter, in what sense can we be said to be free?
Cathy Gere
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Shelf Life
José Luis Guerín’s In the City of Sylvia, Tanya Hamilton’s Night Catches Us, Martin Scorsese’s New York, New York.
Akiva Gottlieb
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Restless in Oslo: On Ida Ekblad and Edvard Munch
An obscure dissatisfaction, a sense that no formal solution works for long, is shared by the art of Ida Ekblad and Edvard Munch.
Barry Schwabsky
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Starting out in Seattle: On Jonathan Raban
Jonathan Raban has made a persona out of the self that feels nowhere at home.
Vivian Gornick
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Letters