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Feature
Beyond Silver Bullets for American Education
The problems facing our schools demand solutions, not slogans.
Pedro Noguera and Randi Weingarten
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The Progressive Honor Roll of 2010
In a tough year for progressives, these courageous people and smart ideas shone through.
John Nichols
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What Newark Schools Need
Why won’t Facebook philanthropist Mark Zuckerberg use his gift to build on progress already being made?
Dana Goldstein
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Nelson Mandela: Conversations With a Myth
In his new memoir the South African leader struggles to overcome his image as a saint.
Ariel Dorfman
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Editorial
Mobilizing the Jobless
More than 26 million Americans don’t have enough work, while robber-baron CEOs report record profits. So why aren’t the unemployed on the march?
Frances Fox Piven
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Lame Duck Congress Victories
The repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the passage of a landmark food safety bill and the narrow defeat of the DREAM Act all prove that organizing and educating across issues really works.
The Editors
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Noted.
John Nichols on the immediate threat to social security, Kate Murphy on opening up the FM airwaves and Braden Goyette on this year’s outrageous CEO bonuses.
Various Contributors
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Column
John Roberts as Umpire: A Reprise
The Supreme Court judge turns a blind eye to corporate spitballs.
Calvin Trillin
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The Case of Julian Assange
The response to the allegations against the WikiLeaks founder prove that when it comes to rape, the left still doesn’t get it.
Katha Pollitt
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Obama in the Age of Accommodation
When considering Obama’s presidency in the long view, remember that history provides many more examples of thwarted resistance than it does of sweeping social change.
Melissa Harris-Perry
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Books & the Arts
Improbable, Incredible: On Afropop
Defying adversities imposed by borders has been one of Afropop’s key modes of transcendence.
K. Leander Williams
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Shelf Life: On Philip Guston, Carolee Scheemann and Ilya Kabakov
The truly consequential choices an artist makes are never experienced as choice but as necessity.
Barry Schwabsky
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The Gutted Writ: On Habeas Corpus
Habeas corpus rescued Walter Rideau from an unjust prison sentence, but during its long history the great writ has been used to muffle the sighs of prisoners as much as to relieve them.
Robert Perkinson
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Spin Cycle: On Tim Wu and Kevin Kelly
Tim Wu and Kevin Kelly speak for a new technocracy, and their new books epitomize its myopia, libertarianism and frustration with the political system.
Paul Duguid
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Letters
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