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Feature
From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Everywhere
In three months, an idea and a hashtag became a worldwide movement. Here’s how they did it.
Nathan Schneider
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The Cyber Arms Race Has Begun
Governments are ramping up investment in cyberweaponry as well as cybersecurity, opening a dark new frontier.
Misha Glenny
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Cyberactivism From Egypt to Occupy Wall Street
The battle for the Internet has politicized prankster cybercollectives like Anonymous–and now authorities are cracking down.
Laurie Penny
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The GOP’s Deregulation Obsession
The Chamber of Commerce and its Republican allies have launched “the Contract With America on steroids.”
Robert Weissman
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The High Cost of Anti-Immigrant Laws
In Georgia, HB 87 is a “giant scarecrow” for immigrant labor, and the result has been hundreds of millions in lost crops.
Greg Asbed and Sean Sellers
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Editorial
Solyndra and Keystone: Not All Environmental Scandals Are Created Equal
While right-wingers froth over the Solyndra mess, a scandal with far higher stakes is being swept under the rug.
The Editors
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The 99 Percent Rise Up
The genius of Occupy Wall Street has been the pitch-perfect resonance of its founding premises. It has grown so rapidly because the American people desperately wanted this movement.
John Nichols
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The Most Important Thing in the World
The task of our time is to insist that we can afford to build a decent society—while at the same time, respect the real limits to what the earth can take.
Naomi Klein
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Chile’s Explosion of Protest
A huge dam project that would despoil the wild Patagonia region and draconian cutbacks in education funding have sparked massive demonstrations against the conservative government.
Jimmy Langman
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Column
Mr. Friedman, Meet Mr. Obama
The New York Times columnist faults President Obama for failing to do… exactly what he did.
Eric Alterman
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Books & the Arts
Gandhi and South Africa
Why was Joseph Lelyveld’s history of Gandhi’s years in South Africa attacked by India’s Hindu right?
Martha C. Nussbaum
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Innocents Lost: On Postwar Orphans
Tara Zahra explains why orphaned children held a special grip on Europe’s postwar imagination.
Holly Case
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Disciplined Filth
George Clooney’s The Ides of March, Danfung Dennis’s Hell and Back Again, Luc Côté and Patricio Henriquez’s You Don’t Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantánamo.
Stuart Klawans
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Letters