September 1-8, 2014 Issue

Cover art by: photo of Jamie Dimon by Haraz N. Ghanbari/AP.

Feature

Jamie Dimon’s $13 Billion Secret

The inside story of JPMorgan Chase’s landmark mortgage settlement

William D. Cohan
Why Is the Justice Department Falling Short With Mortgage Settlements?

Financial penalties are good. Personal accountability would be better.
The Editors
Can GMOs Help Feed a Hot and Hungry World?

Not if activists succeed in making the genetic modification of food politically unsustainable.
Madeline Ostrander
How the Left Is Revitalizing Itself

There’s more collaboration between progressive groups—and more coordination among donors—than ever before.

Gara LaMarche

Editorial

Snapshot: Prelude to a Police Riot

Ferguson, Missouri
Comix Nation

Art Spiegelman
Is America on the Brink of Another Iraq War?

President Obama must seek authorization for any further military action from both the UN Security Council and Congress.

The Editors
Why This Fall’s Elections for Secretaries of State Are So Important

Conservatives are pouring big money into these contests to get a leg up on the 2016 presidential race.

John Nichols
The US Keeps 34,000 Immigrants in Detention Each Day Simply to Meet a Quota

It’s time for Congress to eliminate the immigrant detention mandate.

Robert M. Morgenthau
Authority to Kill a Minority

Mychal Denzel Smith
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Column

Radical Jihadists Gain Ground in Iraq

Calvin Trillin
Summer of Hate

Eric Garner’s death marks a darkening mood fifty years after Freedom Summer.

Patricia J. Williams
Government Whitewashing Didn’t Stop With Watergate

Forty years after President Richard Nixon resigned, our leaders have become even less accountable.
Eric Alterman

Books & the Arts

Summer of Hate

Eric Garner’s death marks a darkening mood fifty years after Freedom Summer.

Patricia J. Williams
The Burkean Regicide

Does David Bromwich’s idea of a Burkean left amount to anything more than contempt for Obama?

Samuel Moyn
Violent Femme

How Scarlett Johansson learned to become aloof from her own seductiveness.

Stuart Klawans
Shelf Life

Trevor Winkfield is a connoisseur of the original, spare and strange.

Barry Schwabsky
Song of the Andoumboulou: 142

Nathaniel Mackey
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