November 11, 2013 Issue
Cover art by: photo by Bruce Davidson/Magnum of the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965
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Feature
The Scholars Who Shill for Wall Street
Academics get paid by financial firms to testify against Dodd-Frank regulations. What’s wrong with this picture?
Lee Fang
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The New Nullification Movement
Some states are reviving disenfranchisement schemes that date back to the antebellum South.
Ari Berman
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Reckoning Comes to Western Coal Country
Decades of government subsidy have cost taxpayers, wrecked the environment and could burn even more carbon than the Keystone pipeline project.
Zoë Carpenter
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Editorial
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After the Shutdown: No Time for Compromise
Will the Dems insist on a budget that addresses unemployment and inequality? Or will they snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by seeking “common ground”?
The Editors
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Have You Ever Met ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán?—and Seven Other Questions for Anabel Hernández
Braving the wrath of traffickers and government officials, Mexican journalist Anabel Hernández has exposed the corruption at the heart of the drug war. She talked to The Nation’s Betsy Reed.
Betsy Reed
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Column
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What the Democrats Can Learn From Ted Cruz
He’s a fraud and a wacko bird, but at least the Texas senator has the courage of his convictions.
Richard Kim
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Books & the Arts
History’s Sinkhole
How did the US-Mexican border become the place where the American past chokes on itself?
Greg Grandin
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Jim Crow II
A history of the fight for voting rights and the movement to restrict them once again.
Ari Berman
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Sinners
Jia Zhangke’s Touch of Sin, Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, and other highs (and lows) from the New York Film Festival.
Stuart Klawans
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 3300
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto