July 4-11, 2011 Issue

Cover art by: Cover illustration by Doug Chayka, design by Milton Glaser Incorporated

Feature

Fighting Foreclosure in Boston

An unlikely grassroots coalition is keeping residents in their homes, one property at a time.
Sasha Abramsky
Should All Kids Go to College?

Given skyrocketing college costs and the bleak jobs outlook, some argue that vocational school is an apt alternative to a four-year liberal arts program for many working-class kids.
Dana Goldstein
Nikki Haley’s Pay-to-Play Politics

South Carolinians are beginning to feel duped by their new governor’s cronyism.
Corey Hutchins
The Romance of Birthright Israel

By providing all-expenses paid trips to Israel for Jewish young adults, US funders and Israeli politicians are creating the next generations of American Zionists.
Kiera Feldman

Editorial

Time to Get Out of Aghanistan, America’s Longest War

President Obama is about to make a major decision regarding US troops in Afghanistan. Progressives must push him to pull out of the quagmire and reinvest at home.
The Editors
Haiti’s Rigged Election

Confirming what Haitians already knew, a WikiLeaks document shows how US and international donors pushed ahead with a rigged presidential election.
Dan Coughlin and Kim Ives
Noted.

Renée Feltz on Democratic defections from President Obama’s immigration enforcement program, Kevin Gosztola on the widening war on WikiLeaks and John Nichols on the FCC
Various Contributors
Weiner in a Box

Congressman Anthony Weiner says he’ll resign, the latest politician brought down by haters and shamers like Andrew Breitbart and a national media that has the sexual maturity of a 7th grader.
JoAnn Wypijewski
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Books & the Arts

The Children’s Hospital: On David Foster Wallace

Vulnerability was what made David Foster Wallace so beloved, but it often led him to surrender too much in his fiction.
William Deresiewicz
Shelf Life: On ‘Granta’

Under the editorship of John Freeman and Ellah Allfrey, Granta is thriving again.
Scott Sherman
The Hills Are Alive: On the Lakotas and the Black Hills

The story of the Lakotas does not end with their loss of the Black Hills or the massacre at Wounded Knee.
Ari Kelman
Oreo

Ed Sanders
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