March 16, 2015 Issue

Feature

The Lethal Legacy of the Vietnam War

Fifty years after the first US troops came ashore at Da Nang, the Vietnamese are still coping with unexploded bombs and Agent Orange.
George Black
Fifty Years After Bloody Sunday in Selma, Everything and Nothing Has Changed

Racism, segregation and inequality persist in this civil-rights battleground.
Ari Berman

Editorial

A Contested Primary Is Good for the Candidates, the Democratic Party and Democracy

The issues that matter most to Americans won’t be adequately explored by a coronation of Hillary Clinton.
The Editors
Obama’s Military-Force Resolution Sets the Stage for a New Era of Imperialism

The AUMF has legitimized expanded presidential war-making.
Michael T. Klare
The Necessity of ‘Citizenfour’

A win for the Edward Snowden documentary is a win for democracy.
Ali Gharib
What Happens if You Refuse to Pay Off Your Student Debt?

Fifteen former students of the for-profit Corinthian college chain are launching a debt strike to allow other debtors to do just that.
Michelle Chen
Comix Nation

Jen Sorensen
Snapshot: Rolling Out the Afghan Carpet

Jonathan Ernst
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Books & the Arts

Jean-Luc Godard and the End of Cinema

The French director is still grappling with the collapsing culture of cinema while imagining its future incarnation.
J. Hoberman
A Volcano of Documents

How the discovery of police archives has altered the memory of political atrocities in Guatemala.
Peter Canby
Dhaka Stories

K. Anis Ahmed’s stringent tales of life in the sprawling capital of Bangladesh.
André Naffis-Sahely
Shelf Life

Khirbet Khizeh is a study in ambiguity of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

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