November 10, 2014 Issue
Cover art by: with apologies to Barbara Kruger
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Features
Exclusive Excerpt: How Pro-Choicers Can Take Back the Moral High Ground
It’s time to claim abortion rights as a social good.
Katha Pollitt
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How Mitch McConnell Is Bending Every Last Campaign Finance Rule
Post–Citizens United, candidates aren’t supposed to coordinate with “outside” spending groups—but even that minimal restriction isn’t being enforced.
Lee Fang
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The Tar Sands Pipeline of Politics
Corporations have directed a gusher of money to climate-change deniers in Congress.
Steve Brodner
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Will Catalonia Secede From Spain?
Catalans are fed up with Madrid’s austerity and corruption—making November’s referendum nonbinding has only postponed the confrontation.
Andy Robinson
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Editorials
Why GOP Control of the Senate Would Be a Disaster
The Republican wrecking crew would hurt workers, women, minorities and the environment.
the Editors
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Can Rick Weiland Win in South Dakota?
The Democratic Senate candidate's prairie populism has made him competitive in this red state.
John Nichols
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Kailash Satyarthi’s Heroism
The Indian Nobel Peace Prize winner has repeatedly risked his life fighting child labor and sweatshop abuses.
Robin Broad and John Cavanagh
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Books and the Arts
‘With This Madness, What Art Could There Be?’
An Armenian-American writer asks if the Armenian obsession with genocide recognition is worth its emotional and psychological price.
Meline Toumani
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Pictures of Icarus
With his cutouts, Henri Matisse tried to free himself from gravity.
Barry Schwabsky
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What Are Movies Good For?
Awakening a sense of wonder and flooding a cinema with crucial realities.
Stuart Klawans
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Letters
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 3342
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto