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Feature
Thoreau’s Radicalism and the Fight Against the Fossil-Fuel Industry
What would it mean if we were to walk in his footsteps?
Wen Stephenson
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The Courage to Fight Climate Change
James Hansen bravely told the truth even when the Bush administration tried to silence and penalize him.
James Hansen and Joseph Romm
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Adventures in Neurohumanities
Applying neuroscience to the study of literature is fashionable. But is it the best way to read a novel?
Alissa Quart
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Fight for the Soul of the City: The Battle Over Buses in Los Angeles
Progressive activists can learn important lessons from a successful grassroots campaign against transit racism.
Eric Mann
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Editorial
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Noted
John Nichols on CISPA’s opponents, Cos Tollerson on Brazil’s stadium controversy, Allison Kilkenny on Occupy the Pipeline
Various Contributors
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Why Arming Syria’s Rebels Is Still a Bad Idea
“Humanitarian” intervention would only deepen the humanitarian disaster.
The Editors
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The Rebellion Against High-Stakes Testing
Resistance is growing, and with good reason—test mania delivers few benefits and often harms the students it’s meant to help.
David Kirp
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The Price: Sex, Death and Dhaka
Someone somewhere must die for the pleasure someone somewhere else takes in a $4.95 bikini top.
JoAnn Wypijewski
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Column
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Rupert Murdoch: Journalism’s Jack the Ripper
Media observers horrified at the thought of a Koch takeover of the Tribune Company are more sanguine about Murdoch. What are they thinking?
Eric Alterman
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Globalization’s Scapegoats
The recent victories of the right-wing, anti-immigrant United Kingdom Independence Party says more about our scapegoats than about its long-term prospects.
Gary Younge
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Who Gets Blamed for Globalization?
The recent victories of the right-wing, anti-immigrant United Kingdom Independence Party says more about our scapegoats than about its long-term prospects.
Gary Younge
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Books & the Arts
Thoreau’s Radicalism and the Fight Against the Fossil-Fuel Industry
What would it mean if we were to walk in his footsteps?
Wen Stephenson
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Adventures in Neurohumanities
Applying neuroscience to the study of literature is fashionable. But is it the best way to read a novel?
Alissa Quart
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Nietzsche’s Marginal Children: On Friedrich Hayek
How did the conservative ideas of Friedrich Hayek and the Austrian school become our economic reality? By turning the market into the realm of great politics and morals.
Corey Robin
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Red Country: On Taylor Swift
Profligate, prolific, towering over the landscape: Is Taylor Swift China?
Joshua Clover
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 3283
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto