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Feature
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Boxed In: How a Criminal Record Keeps You Unemployed For Life
People like Luis Rivera are being locked out of the formal workforce forever thanks to one youthful mistake.
Kai Wright
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Editorial
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Free the Media!
It’s time to get back to our roots—the grassroots—to fight for reform of an increasingly monopolistic and manipulative media.
John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney
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The GOP’s Poverty Denialism
According to many conservatives, the poor have it easy.
Michelle Goldberg
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Arthur Danto: A Critic With ‘a Beatific Sense of Wonder’
If, in an age of mechanical reproduction, art had lost its aura, he restored that aura; he enchanted an unenchanted world.
Elizabeth Pochoda
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A High-Stakes Election in Honduras
Will the country take a step toward democracy, or remain mired in corruption and repression?
Dana Frank
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The de Blasio Mandate
Five areas where Mayor de Blasio can make big progressive changes in New York City.
The Editors
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Books & the Arts
Arthur Danto: A Critic With ‘a Beatific Sense of Wonder’
If, in an age of mechanical reproduction, art had lost its aura, he restored that aura; he enchanted an unenchanted world.
Elizabeth Pochoda
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Get Happy!!
For Margaret Thatcher as for today’s happiness industry, there is no such thing as society.
Jackson Lears
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The Seafarer
Stories of shipwreck and drift are Hollywood’s new allegories of national ruin.
Joshua Clover
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Letters
Letters
Destroy the planet for profit… BP = bitter pill… let sixty golf courses bloom?… correction in Bean Town…
Our Readers
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 3302
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto