June 22-29, 2015 Issue
Cover art by: photo by Catalin Abagiu.
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Feature
Life and Death in Brownback’s Kansas
Twenty-one states have refused to expand Medicaid, leaving millions of sick Americans without decent healthcare.
Kai Wright
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Ecuador’s Battle for Environmental Justice Against Chevron
For more than two decades, impoverished indigenous people have been seeking restitution from the oil giant for polluting their region.
James North
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Who Killed Public Housing in New Orleans?
After Hurricane Katrina, big developers, government bureaucrats and anti-housing ideologues pushed to destroy “Bricks.”
Roberta Brandes Gratz
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How Obama Went From Being a Peace Candidate to a War President
Critics call him timid, but the president’s foreign policy has often been too aggressive—even at the risk of our long-term national interests.
Sherle R. Schwenninger
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Editorial
More Debates Are Good for Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, Lincoln Chafee—and Hillary Clinton
With new contenders, the DNC’s plan for just six debates is inadequate.
John Nichols
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The Olympic Bravery of Caitlyn Jenner
Gender is self-determination, and Caitlyn Jenner’s seizing that self-determination in such a public fashion will save lives.
Dave Zirin
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Why Science Fiction Is a Fabulous Tool in the Fight for Social Justice
With their anthology Octavia’s Brood, Adrienne Brown and Walidah Imarisha evoke a world of radical possibility.
Laura Flanders
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Column
Why I’m Ready—and Excited—for Hillary
Clinton is running as a feminist—and that matters for all women.
Katha Pollitt
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Books & the Arts
Delmore’s Way
How the stormy eloquence of Delmore Schwartz made possible the glittering prose of Saul Bellow.
Vivian Gornick
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Finding Nearly Forgotten Music
Why the musician and filmmaker John Cohen still thinks that true objectivity is an elusive beast.
Joanna Pocock
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Letters
Letters
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