February 21, 2011 Issue
Cover art by: Cover photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters, design by Milton Glaser Incorporated
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Feature
How to Build a Progressive Tea Party
British liberals’ protests have been ignored for years. So why did a campaign against the country’s biggest tax dodgers suddenly gain traction?
Johann Hari
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A Ten-Step Guide to Launching US Uncut
Gather some friends, pick a tax dodger and get on the street!
Johann Hari
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The Most Feminist Place in the World
After a testosterone-fueled boom and bust, the women of Iceland took charge.
Janet Elise Johnson
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A Conversation With Marshall Ganz
The legendary organizer speaks on the “story of the self” and where Obama went wrong.
Sasha Abramsky
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Editorial
Noted.
Ari Berman on the neocon attack on Mohamed ElBaradei, John Nichols on the Florida ruling against the healthcare bill and Kate Murphy on the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act
Various Contributors
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FCIC Report Turns a Blind Eye to Wall Street Fraud
The commission’s report offers an indictment of the leading players in the economic catastrophe, but ignores the out-and-out swindling.
William Greider
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Winter of Discontent
Egypt’s future looks uncertain. What is certain is if Obama sides with a repressive regime, feared extremism will become reality.
Laila Lalami
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Column
The Tiger Mama Syndrome
The real dilemma in Amy Chua’s book is how to survive in a world in which the slightest nonconformity risks landing you out of a job, a home, a life.
Patricia J. Williams
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The Conservative Class War, Continued
The assault on public employee unions is the next phase of a the forty-year campaign by the rich against the rest of us.
Eric Alterman
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Books & the Arts
Duncan’s Divagations: On Robert Duncan and H.D.
Robert Duncan saw in H.D.’s poetry “The story of survival, the evolution of forms in which live survives.”
Ange Mlinko
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Viewing Conditions: On Jonathan Rosenbaum
For Jonathan Rosenbaum, the golden age of filmgoing is as dead as the drive-in, but cinephilia is thriving.
Akiva Gottlieb
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Things as They Are
Lee Chang-dong’s Poetry, Jorge Michel Grau’s We Are What We Are, Ron Howard’s The Dilemma
Stuart Klawans
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