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Feature
Feminism’s Toxic Twitter Wars
Empowered by social media, feminists are calling one another out for ideological offenses. Is it good for the movement? And whose movement is it?
Michelle Goldberg
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What Chirlane McCray Wore—and Why It Matters
Suddenly local fashion is all the rage. But can the garment trades once again bring good jobs to New York City?
Elizabeth Cline
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Harvard and Brown Fail on Climate
Why university presidents Drew Gilpin Faust and Christina Paxson were wrong to reject calls to divest from fossil fuel companies.
James Lawrence Powell
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Editorial
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Obama Called for a ‘Year of Action’ to Fight Inequality. Let’s Make It Happen.
Only continued pressure from grassroots activists will force Washington to do the right thing.
The Editors
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Celebrating Pete Seeger
Bruce Springsteen said it best, on Pete’s ninetieth birthday: “You outlasted the bastards, man.”
John Nichols
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How the Myth of the ‘Negro Cocaine Fiend’ Helped Shape American Drug Policy
In 1914, a racist fiction helped sell one of the nation’s first drug laws; 100 years later, it’s still with us.
Carl L. Hart
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What Happens When 85 People Are Worth the Same Amount as 3.5 Billion?
A new Oxfam report warns of the dangers of global inequality.
Corinne Grinapol
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Bill de Blasio Is Wrong to Pander to AIPAC
The powerful right-wing lobby doesn’t represent most American Jews, and it’s no longer the only game in town.
The Editors
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Column
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The Return of the Tiger Mother
A new book raises the question: Are Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld racists—or just equal opportunity trolls?
Richard Kim
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Books & the Arts
Slavery in the Modern World
David Brion Davis’s pathbreaking study of the problem of slavery.
Eric Foner
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Abie’s Yiddish Muse
Like a lot of red revolutionaries, Abraham Cahan ended up to the right of where he began.
D.D. Guttenplan
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Tested
Diane Ravitch’s latest call-to-arms against the privatization of public schools.
Joseph Featherstone
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Letters
Letters
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Our Readers
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 3312
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto