November 3, 2014 Issue

Cover art by: design by Robert Best

Editorial

The GOP Is Winning the War on Voting

Voters in fourteen states—many with tight races—will face new restrictions at the polling booth for the first time in November.
Ari Berman
Even Red-State Voters Want to Raise the Minimum Wage

Eighty percent of Americans want to hike wages, but powerful Republicans keep saying no.

John Nichols
A Q&A With Charles Blow on Race, Poverty, Sexual Predators and the CIA

The New York Times columnist discusses his new book, Fire Shut Up in My Bones.
Jon Wiener
How Art Can Change Minds

Political cartoons can move only if they surprise.

Mr. Fish
Snapshot: Riot for the Return of the Disappeared

Felix Marquez
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Column

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.

Eric Alterman
Will Your Child Grow Up to Be Victim or Torturer?

While 90 percent of teens break the law, only some enter a violent system.

Patricia J. Williams
Texas Voter-ID Law Reinstated

Calvin Trillin

Books & the Arts

A Q&A With Charles Blow on Race, Poverty, Sexual Predators and the CIA

The New York Times columnist discusses his new book, Fire Shut Up in My Bones.
Jon Wiener
Vanishing Act

You’ve probably never heard of Martin J. Sklar. But you should have.
James Livingston
Acts of Treason

For Rian Malan, seeking atonement doesn’t necessarily mean one will attain it.
André Naffis-Sahely
Uncontained City

The Third World collides with the First in Atticus Lish’s Preparation for the Next Life.

Madison Smartt Bell
In Our Orbit: Pleasures and Predicaments

In the poems of Peter Gizzi, the powers of tradition meet and mingle.

Frances Richard
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