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Murder, They Wrote

Laura Marsh ▪ Spring 2016

The new wave of true crime series has spawned an entire online subculture of amateur sleuths—not to mention vigilantes. But where do we draw the line between journalism, protest, and entertainment?

Austerity vs. the Planet: The Future of Labor Environmentalism

Trish Kahle ▪ Spring 2016

Environmental regulations never got the chance to destroy whole sectors of “good jobs” as their opponents promised they would—fossil fuel companies themselves, backed by neoliberal policy, destroyed them instead.

The Climate After Paris: Introducing Our Spring Issue

Todd Gitlin and Colin Kinniburgh ▪ Spring 2016

Any serious effort to keep global warming below catastrophic levels requires an unprecedented challenge to the fossil fuel industry from the grassroots. It also requires a vision of what the post-fossil future will look like.

Four Inherited Disorders

Adam Ehrlich Sachs ▪ Spring 2016

Four parables from Adam Ehrlich Sachs’s collection, Inherited Disorders.

Brazil’s Landless Workers Rise Up

Judite Stronzake and Wendy Wolford ▪ Spring 2016

It is notoriously difficult to convict corporations of a crime in a foreign country. But on November 17, 2015, a Brazilian judge found the Swiss transnational agribusiness Syngenta liable for instigating deadly violence. The company was held responsible for attacking …

Occupy the Party

Michael Kazin ▪ Spring 2016

If Sanders does not triumph in 2016, how can those who thrilled at the prospect of a socialist president keep their movement going? One way would be to turn the Sanders platform into the agenda for a new, anti-corporate organization—a Tea Party of the left.

Consumo Consciente

Daniel Aldana Cohen ▪ Spring 2016

You might mistake Terezinha Silva for a middle-aged eco-fundamentalist from Brooklyn. In fact, she is a militant member of São Paulo’s working-class housing movement. I first met Terezinha at a workshop in São Paulo last summer. In attendance were over …

The Path to Democratic Socialism: Lessons from Latin America

Patrick Iber ▪ Spring 2016

Significant change to our political economy will require significant change to our structure of government. It is hard to see how to get there without some kind of “populist” moment, fraught with danger to other values we believe to be essential.

Painting with Oil

Mel Evans ▪ Spring 2016

Oil magnate David Koch stepped down from the board of the American Museum of Natural History on December 9, 2015. His departure came only months after dozens of scientists signed a letter calling on the science museum sector to sever …

Socialism and Liberalism: Articles of Conciliation?

Irving Howe ▪ Winter 1977

Debates between socialists and liberals are not new. But nor, perhaps, are they completely irreconcilable. [From the archives]

Country Music Capital

Max Fraser ▪ Winter 2016

When Nashville was anointed the capital of country music, a true American icon was born.

Camus on Trial

Jeffrey C. Isaac ▪ Winter 2016

Kamel Daoud’s Meursault, contre-enquête is complex and irreverent, scorning both colonialism and Eurocentrism as well as postcolonial dreams of national liberation and clerical authority.

Pulp Nonfiction

Paul Buhle ▪ March 18, 2016

“Zippy” creator Bill Griffith’s new book Invisible Ink is a curious masterpiece, merging the real-life personal saga of his mother with the story of the forgotten pulps.