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How Can Labor Be Saved?

American unions are in deep trouble. What’s the way out?

Josh Eidelson

Unions: Put Organizing First

Don’t forget that political power is intrinsically linked to organizing power.

Kate Bronfenbrenner

Make Organizing a Civil Right

It’s time to tie worker rights to “Seneca Falls, Selma and Stonewall.”

Richard D. Kahlenberg and Moshe Z. Marvit

What Labor Can Learn From the Obama Campaign

It’s time to harness data.

Suresh Naidu and Dorian T. Warren

Build a Democracy Movement

“Money Out, Voting In” should become labor’s mantra.

Larry Cohen

Become a Movement of All Workers

Let’s stop waiting for the government to tell us who can organize.

Bhairavi Desai

Time for Labor to Mobilize Immigrants

Immigration reform can be labor’s game-changer.

Maria Elena Durazo

Fight for the Whole Society

To survive, unions need to be better neighbors.

Karen GJ Lewis

Can a Clinic Help Rebuild a War-Torn Nation?

Beginning with medical care and expanding to education and more, Village Health Works is on a nervy quest to rebuild Burundi from the ground up.

Wendy Steiner

Hillary Clinton, State Feminist?

She vowed to make women’s rights a cornerstone of US foreign policy. How did she do?

Tara McKelvey

Obama Takes a Stand Against Austerity

He may not have achieved the full FDR, but the president’s State of the Union speech, like his Inaugural, displayed a welcome progressive spirit.

The Editors

Lessons From Mali, Algeria and Libya

Expanding Washington’s military footprint in North Africa may be well intended, but it could be destabilizing and lead to blowback.

The Editors

Noted

John Nichols on the US Postal Service, Elana Leopold on rebel teachers in Seattle, Lucy McKeon on Ramarley Graham’s legacy, and the editors on Charlottesville’s anti-drone resolution

Various Contributors

What’s Wrong With Obama’s Drone Policy

The White House evidently believes it can kill us in secret and never own up to the fact.

David Cole

Hacker Unearths Paintings by George W. Bush

Calvin Trillin

‘America Doesn’t Torture’—It Kills

Even if we like President Obama, do we want him to be a one-man death panel?

Katha Pollitt

The War on Drugs Is a War on Kids

The school-to-prison pipeline has emerged quickly, but the corrosive effect of criminalizing children will be felt for generations to come.

Patricia J. Williams

You Are What You Click: On Microtargeting

Why privacy and anonymity are being violated online by an unstoppable process of data profiling.

David Auerbach

Stalker

For the novelist James Lasdun, being stalked online is like “swallowing a cup of poison every morning.”

Caleb Crain

Shelf Life

Robert Bresson’s The Devil, Probably; Maurice Pilat’s Police; Leo McCary’s My Son John.

Akiva Gottlieb

In Our Orbit: My Lai Rules

Nick Turse’s Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.

Richard Kreitner

Letters

Time to ditch the word ‘choice’?; act locally; the barbarism of empire; corrections and clarification

Our Readers

Puzzle No. 3272

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

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto