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Feature
Is This the End of the War on Crime?
The era of "Lock ’em up and throw away the key" seems, slowly, to be drawing to a close.
Sasha Abramsky
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Against Boycott and Divestment
Punishing Israel’s most progressive elements will not help to end the occupation.
Bernard Avishai
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The SEIU Andy Stern Leaves Behind
His single-minded pursuit of growth alienated allies. Did it produce the gains he promised?
Max Fraser
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Editorial
Mama Grizzlies to Working Moms: Drop Dead
Fresh faces aside, the Republican Party’s stance on the issues that matter to working mothers is as regressive as it’s ever been.
Betsy Reed
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War on Public Workers
Scapegoating public employees is an insidious way of dividing public and private sector workers who share common interests.
Amy Traub
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Noted.
Esther Kaplan on indictments of New Orleans police officers in the shooting death of Henry Glover.
The Editors
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Tear Gas in Cananea
The strike at Cananea highlights the extremely unsafe conditions of Mexican mines.
David Bacon
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Column
Semaphore
Sure, some Americans use their flag in poor taste. But should they be prevented from doing so?
Patricia J. Williams
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‘Cutthroat’ Crybabies
The White House press corps is entirely focused on what happens inside the White House. While that’s not irrelevant, it’s not what’s really important.
Eric Alterman
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Right-Wing Women Win Big in Primary Voting
Have they kicked through the glass ceiling?
Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Ardor and the Abyss
Emily Dickinson’s reclusiveness was a way of protecting the world from herself.
James Longenbach
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Retreat to Subsistence
Could the introduction of genetically modified genes into Mexico’s landrace corns lead to their extinction?
Peter Canby
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Shelf Life
Gabriel García Márquez’s Clandestine in Chile; Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not a Gadget; Roger Lowenstein’s The End of Wall Street
John Palattella
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