June 23-30, 2014 Issue

Cover art by: design by Robert Best

Feature

Why the Campus Rape Crisis Confounds Colleges

Virtually everyone agrees the system is broken. But while some feminists want colleges to deliver justice, others argue it’s just not their job. Who is right?
Michelle Goldberg
Welcome to West Port Arthur, Texas, Ground Zero in the Fight for Climate Justice

If you live in a toxic environment like this, surrounded by refineries, you’re probably not thinking about some future apocalypse. You’re living in one.
Wen Stephenson

Editorial

Why We’re Shocked by White Heroin Use

Do white pundits, reporters and TV producers have a no-snitch policy on exposing crises in the white community?
Ishmael Reed
Can the Internet Be a ‘People’s Platform’? A Q&A With Astra Taylor

Her new book reconsiders how democratic the digital world really is.

Sarah Leonard
Why Is It Illegal to Export American Oil?

Some companies want the ban dropped.

Simon Davis-Cohen
Obama’s Climate Regulations: A Step in the Right Direction, but Nowhere Close to What We Need

How about a 40 percent cut by 2030 based on 1990 levels?

The Editors
Comix Nation

Matt Bors
Snapshot: Call In the Troops

Saul Loeb
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Column

Sex Trafficking, Lies & Money: Lessons From the Somaly Mam Scandal

Why exactly did the telegenic Cambodian campaigner use fake trafficking victims to raise philanthropic cash from Westerners? And when will Nicholas Kristof ever learn?
Katha Pollitt
New Mass Murder, Old Lesson

Why we avoid talking about the one thing that might stop the next bloodbath

Richard Kim
The VA Scandal

Calvin Trillin

Books & the Arts

James Joyce’s Untamable Power

Censors thought it dirty and rebellious, but what makes Ulysses radical is its dramatization of the unending conflict between good and evil.

James Longenbach
Free to Choose?

How Americans have become tyrannized by the culture’s overinvestment in choice.
Sophia Rosenfeld
The Best Years of Their Lives

Why World War II offered Hollywood directors an escape into reality.

Noah Isenberg
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