June 22-29, 2015 Issue

Cover art by: photo by Catalin Abagiu.

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
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
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
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

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
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
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
Comix Nation

Tom Tomorrow
Snapshot: Fifa’s Self-Chopping Head

Michael Probst
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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
Twin

Grzegorz Wróblewski
Finding Nearly Forgotten Music

Why the musician and filmmaker John Cohen still thinks that true objectivity is an elusive beast.
Joanna Pocock
Zero Visibility

Grzegorz Wróblewski
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