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Changing the Daley Routine
As a Chicago dynasty ends, progressives weigh their options.
December 2010
COVER STORY
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A New Blueprint for Change
A revived progressive program must be built year-round, at the local level.
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What We Lost After We Won in 2008
An anti-war activist explains what the Democratic establishment fails to understand.
Features
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China’s New Lost Generation
Dissidents struggle against state-induced historical amnesia.
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Notes from the Moral Underground
How and why Americans are subverting their economy.
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A Wasted Crisis
How the environmental movement missed the moment on climate change.
Act Locally
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War News Unfit for Print
Wikileaks' Iraq War Logs revelations are clearer outside the United States.
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Another Sit-in Success
A group of Hispanic parents save a Chicago community center from destruction.
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Radioactivist Vindicated
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission sides with a fired whistleblower.
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Invasion of the Land Grabbers
U.S.-based multinational corporations are buying up massive chunks of Africa.
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Dear ITT Ideologist: Karzai’s Currency War, and Fearsome Flying Bankers
Dear ITT Ideologist, I am the debonair but mercurial satrap of a war-ravaged central Asian nation. Having become... more
culture
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In Defense of the Public
We must not let the commons be privatized.
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film
The Politics of a New Metropolis
Fritz Lang's newly expanded dystopian classic looks better than ever. Its vision of humanity? Not so much.
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The End of Indie?
The difference between "mainstream" and "indie" music has almost disappeared.
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‘Old Times There Are Not Forgotten’
Urban prison farming and the difference between reform and revolution.
Columnists
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Let Them Drink Soda
Surely it is paternalistic to bar the poor from using food stamps to buy soda--as New York City... more
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Back Talk
All Is Not (Yet) Lost
It's the morning after Election Day, the Armageddon-for-Obama the media have been predicting since about five months after... more
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Barbarism With A Human Face
The recent expulsion oF illegal Roma ("Gypsies") from France back to Romania sparked protests across Europe from both... more
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Editorial
Debating ‘The Change We Seek’
The 2010 midterm election results make one point abundantly clear: The Democrats are doing something wrong. Yes, midterm losses... more
