January 23, 2012 Issue
Cover art by: Cover design by Milton Glaser Incorporated
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Feature
How US Policies Fueled Mexico’s Great Migration
Impoverished by NAFTA, residents of Veracruz crossed the border to work in Smithfield’s Tar Heel slaughterhouse. Now, they’re condemned as “illegals.”
David Bacon
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Labor Takes Aim at Walmart—Again
Organizers have found a new approach to promoting workers’ rights at the retail giant. And it seems to be working.
Spencer Woodman
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Mexico’s Anti-Abortion Backlash
In just two years, half the country’s states have passed extreme fetal-rights amendments.
Mary Cuddehe
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Editorial
Electoral Dysfunction, 2012
Awash in Super PAC money, defined by negative TV ads, degraded by dumbed-down media and poisoned by voter suppression—this is not what democracy looks like.
The Editors
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Guantánamo: Ten Years and Counting
With Obama’s signing of the National Defense Authorization Act, the prison becomes a permanent fixture.
David Cole
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Noted.
Jamelle Bouie on Ben Nelson’s terrible tenure, Josh Eidelson on the NLRB’s new election rules, plus: battling ALEC in Virginia
Various Contributors
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Column
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Obama and the Indefinite Detention of US Citizens
With the signing of the National Defense Authorization Act, the president has brought Guantánamo-style justice to the United States.
Alexander Cockburn
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Ron Paul’s Strange Bedfellows
He’s against most of what we’re for. What is it with progressive mancrushes on right-wing Republicans?
Katha Pollitt
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Books & the Arts
Anxious and Paralyzed: On Spahr, Gordon, Moschovakis and Ossip
Books by four poets about big modern systems whose results and failures seem inescapable.
Stephen Burt
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Last Year’s Model: On Simon Reynolds
A critic of pop’s retro turn can’t shake his own strain of pop nostalgia.
Sara Marcus
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Letters