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Feature
Librarians Versus the NSA
Your local library is on the front lines against government surveillance.
Zoë Carpenter
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How Climate Protection Has Become Today’s Labor Solidarity
Union-led action on climate change has proliferated across the country.
Jeremy Brecher
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Inside the New Sanctuary Movement That’s Protecting Immigrants From ICE
Can a network of churches fight deportations?
Puck Lo
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Editorial
Can Bernie Sanders Break Through the Status Quo?
He may have already done it, with his unapologetic defense of social democracy and assaults on the “billionaire class.”
John Nichols
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How the Horrors of World War II Lived On
Tens of millions were murdered or expelled from their homes in a whirlwind of ethnic cleansing.
David Nasaw
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Why I Support PEN’s Courage Award to ‘Charlie Hebdo’
I have a sentimental attachment to journals of political satire as unique and effective instruments of criticism.
Victor Navasky
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Black America’s Lost Generation Speaks Up
The teens of the Baltimore riot have never known a reality without crisis. That comes with consequences.
Kai Wright
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Column
The Courage of ‘Charlie Hebdo’
The French magazine is blasphemous—and isn’t that an honorable thing to be?
Katha Pollitt
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Books & the Arts
Inside Out
With its new building, the Whitney Museum is now the best place to see modern and contemporary art in New York City.
Barry Schwabsky
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Damage
In our new Gilded Age, the worst are not only full of passionate conviction. They are also damnably clever.
George Scialabba
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Critical Agents
How J. Edgar Hoover’s paranoid view of literature led him to target African-American writers.
Peter C. Baker
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Financial Pop
Money is sitting around in its sweatpants listlessly spooning peanut butter out of a jar.
Joshua Clover
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