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The Great Walmart Walkout

The new labor campaign against the retail giant faces daunting odds, and the stakes are high: most of us live in the Walmart economy.

Josh Eidelson

The Progressive Honor Roll of 2012

From Bernie Sanders to Boots Riley, from Marcia Moody to Jane McAlevey, we celebrate nineteen activists, movements and politicians.

John Nichols

How Walmart Helped Make the Newtown Shooter’s AR-15 the Most Popular Assault Weapon in America

A massive recent spike in gun sales has boosted Walmart’s flagging profits, making it the top seller of firearms and ammunition nationwide.

George Zornick

Roots of a Rampage

It's still unclear what motivated the Newtown shooter, but the small towns where such deadly outbursts tend to occur have some things in common.

Katherine S. Newman

Noted

Lee Fang on the NRA’s real mission, Allison Kilkenny on Occupy the NRA, John Nichols on ALEC and guns, the editors on Josh Eidelson's Sidney Award

Various Contributors

Will Congress Rein In Illegal Spying?

When The New York Times first revealed the NSA was wiretapping Americans without a warrant in 2005, it was a scandal. But the government continues to spy with impunity—and what was once illegal has become the law.

Marcy Wheeler

Newtown: It Doesn’t Have to Happen Again

We have the ability to prevent another mass shooting. But do we have the will?

The Editors

Qualifications to Be Secretary of State, According to Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham

Calvin Trillin

This Year, Be More Generous Than Ever

Honor the Newtown victims by supporting groups working to end the outrageous levels of violence in our society.

Katha Pollitt

After Newtown, Beware Fear-Driven Policymaking

In crafting laws after the horrifying killings in Connecticut, it’s crucial that we recognize our own collective trauma before we rush to act.

Melissa Harris-Perry

Suspicious Minds: On Timothy Melley

How thrillers inform spycraft, and the fictions that belie them both.

Peter C. Baker

The Trembling Upper World: On Siegfried Kracauer

The European émigré who became a philosopher of American cinema.

J. Hoberman

Heroism, Hidden: On Ian Wallace

The Canadian artist who transformed the Vancouver art scene.

Barry Schwabsky

Letters

Swank Filer, where are you? (reprise); Poland in wartime; four-letter words.

Our Readers, John Connelly and Eric Alterman

Puzzle No. 3265

And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto