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Feature
Egypt After Mubarak
On campuses, in syndicates and even inside the Muslim Brotherhood—the revolution lives on.
Paul Amar
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From Two Breadwinners to One
Middle-class dreams have been deferred as the recession shrinks the two-income family.
Louis Uchitelle
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Off the Map in Mexico
In the wake of a militarized drug war, the power of cartels is more pervasive than ever.
Dawn Paley
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Can Sandy Pope Revive the Teamsters?
Concessionary contracts and lingering corruption have sapped the once-mighty union.
Ari Paul
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Editorial
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Jeff Biggers on student protests in Arizona, John Nichols on Canada’s New Democratic Party, and Kate Murphy on FAIR’s twenty-fifth anniversary.
Various Contributors
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After Osama bin Laden
The purpose of terrorism is to provoke an irrational response that makes a nation less secure and less free. In the wake of 9/11, America became that place. Can we change course?
The Editors
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After Osama bin Laden’s Death, an End to ‘Bad Guys’
It’s time to banish our dangerously-simplified us-versus-them mentality and recognize the world as it is: shot through with suffering and complexity.
Chris Hayes
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Column
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Gender Trouble
Transgender people face assaults that run the gamut from physical to emotional. It’s past time to resolve our society’s discomfort with those outside the gender binary.
Patricia J. Williams
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Bin Gotten
The killing of Osama bin Laden was a just and necessary undertaking, but it should not be an occasion for joy.
Eric Alterman
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Books & the Arts
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Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education
The exploitation of contingent labor, a shrinking middle class, administrative elephantiasis: the turmoil in academia is a microcosm of American society as a whole.
William Deresiewicz
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Margins of Modernism: A New Historicism in Art
In the paintings of Silke Otto-Knapp and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, there’s an unending entanglement, and dialogue, between the present and the past.
Barry Schwabsky
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Letters
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