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November 3, 2014 Issue
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Editorial
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Even Red-State Voters Want to Raise the Minimum Wage
Eighty percent of Americans want to hike wages, but powerful Republicans keep saying no.
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Column
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A New Documentary Profiles Liars for Hire
Today’s corporations have taken a page from the tobacco industry, fooling the public and undermining science in order to boost profits, no matter the human cost.
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Will Your Child Grow Up to Be Victim or Torturer?
While 90 percent of teens break the law, only some enter a violent system.
Letters
Letters
Demand green, people!… “vices and follies”… Goodbye, Confucius… whiter shade of pale…itsy bitsie tennie weenie… why? why? why?&hel...
Books & the Arts
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Uncontained City
The Third World collides with the First in Atticus Lish’s Preparation for the Next Life.
In Our Orbit: Pleasures and Predicaments
In the poems of Peter Gizzi, the powers of tradition meet and mingle.