February 24, 2014 Issue

Cover art by: design by Robert Best

Feature

From Occupy to Climate Justice

There’s a growing effort to merge economic-justice and climate activism. Call it climate democracy.

Wen Stephenson
How Crowdworkers Became the Ghosts in the Digital Machine

Since 2005, Amazon has helped create one of the most exploited workforces no one has ever seen.
Moshe Z. Marvit

Editorial

Why Now Is the Time to Reform How We Elect the President

The power brokers of both parties are already busy trying to shut down debate and shut out alternatives for 2016.

The Editors
7 Questions for Tish James

New York City’s new public advocate on homeless children, the former mayor and her office’s shrunken budget.

Laura Flanders
Two High-Profile Lawsuits Are Challenging Virginia’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban

Could one of them be on the road to the Supreme Court?
Lizzy Ratner
Comix Nation

Matt Bors
Snapshot: The Dry Season

Robert Galbraith
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Column

What Ailes the Media?

A biography by Gabriel Sherman clarifies the Fox impresario’s role in his network’s deceptions.
Eric Alterman
Worlds, and Wombs, Collide in a Kansas Bill Criminalizing Surrogate Pregnancy Contracts

There is danger in turning surrogacy into a sexless crime.

Patricia J. Williams
Payback

Calvin Trillin

Books & the Arts

Beyond Belief

Conservative religious thinkers and their intellectual crusades.
Chris Lehmann
Bull in China’s Shop

The urbanization of China and infusion of Western forms amounts to a second Cultural Revolution.

Michael Sorkin
The Loved Ones

Robert May’s Kids for Cash, Sebastián Lelio’s Gloria, Razvan Radulescu’s Child’s Pose

Stuart Klawans
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