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The Misremembering of ‘I Have a Dream’

Fifty years after the March on Washington, Dr. King’s most famous speech, like his own political legacy, is widely misunderstood.

Gary Younge

Workers ROC the Restaurant Industry

How low-wage food service workers are serving up justice.

Laura Flanders

How the Streets Honor Martin Luther King Jr.

On city walls across the country, muralists and street artists depict him as a statesman, visionary, hero and martyr.

Camilo José Vergara

De Blasio for NYC Mayor

His candidacy is an opportunity for New Yorkers to reimagine their city in boldly progressive ways.

The Editors

Noted

Francis Reynolds on a landmark blow to stop-and-frisk, John Thomason on long-overdue justice in North Carolina, and Rebecca Nathanson on NYU’s corporate style of higher education

Various Contributors

Time to March on Washington—Again

Fifty years after King’s historic march, the struggle for racial justice faces unprecedented challenges.

Ari Berman

The Winter Olympics in Putin’s Russia

Calvin Trillin

The Washington Post’s Dubious Salvation

As the old journalism dies, what does the Bezos era portend?

Eric Alterman

The Misremembering of ‘I Have a Dream’

Fifty years after the March on Washington, Dr. King’s most famous speech, like his own political legacy, is widely misunderstood.

Gary Younge

Showing, Saying, Whistling: On Lorna Simpson and Ahlam Shibli

Two photographers focus on the difficulties of putting words to what one sees.

Barry Schwabsky

Fascist Sympathies: On Dorothea Brande

Wake Up and Live! reveals the connection between the radical individualism of 1930s self-help manuals and fascist politics.

Joanna Scutts

Fichte’s Way

Johann Gottlieb Fichte undertook a pure search for truth. He also distrusted international markets. Does that make him an ancestor to anti-globalization activists?

Michael Rosen

‘Atlantic Rim’: Chomsky v. Zizek

An online dustup between two pop star penseurs shows them staggering through afterlives.

Joshua Clover

How the Streets Honor Martin Luther King Jr.

On city walls across the country, muralists and street artists depict him as a statesman, visionary, hero and martyr.

Camilo José Vergara

Letters

Big Brother: watching, listening and…; nukes on our mind

Our Readers, Mark Hertsgaard and Terry Tempest Williams

Puzzle No. 3291

And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto