2013: vol. 12, no. 1

Whither American Labor?

Melvyn Dubofsky: Does Organized Labor Have A Future?

Bill Fletcher, Jr: Now What? Labor Unions and the Inevitability of Class Struggle

Michael Hirsch: So Why don’t we have better unions?

Rand Wilson, Steve Early: Is It Time For Just Cause?

Essays

Douglas Kellner: The Sandy Hook Slaughter and Copy Cat Killers in a Media Celebrity Society: Analyses and Plans for Action

Lawrence Davidson: Israel’s 2013 Elections

Kevin Anderson: Resistance versus Emancipation: Foucault, Marcuse, Marx, and the Present Moment

Spencer J. Pack: How the Right Got Adam Smith Wrong on the Eve of Environmental (and hence Economic) Catastrophe

Axel Fair-Schulz: A “Wandering Jew:” Stefan Heym’s Humanist Socialism

Poetry

Alicia Ostriker: Ghazal: America the Beautiful

Andy Clausen: Home of the Blues

Eliot Katz: Poem Written During and After Hurricane Sandy

Film Reviews

Leonard Quart: Aging in Films and Amour

Book Reviews

John G. Rodwan, Jr: Kurt Vonnegut among His Admirers

Peter N. Kirstein: Oliver Stone’s America

Brian Trench: Ben Goldacre: Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Misled Doctors and Harm Patients (Faber and Faber, 2013)

Warren Leming: Kevin Avery, Everything is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson (Fantagraphics Books, 2011)

Lost & Found Books

Kurt Jacobsen: Lost and Found Books: Nelson Algren’s Nonconformity: Writing on Writing (New York: Seven Stories Press, 1998)

Between The Issues

Do the Strong Suffer When They Do What They Want?

By Seán Molloy | March 2, 2025

Leadership Beyond Presidential Power: A Tribute to Jimmy Carter

By Francis Mading Deng | January 19, 2025

Behold: A Fascist!

By Joseph Chuman | October 25, 2024

Who’s Afraid of Democracy?

By Steve Fraser | October 16, 2024

Denmark Should Not Extradite Paul Watson to Japan*

By Paola Cavalieri | August 29, 2024

Institute, School, Tradition: On the Centenary of the Frankfurt School

By Eduardo Mendieta | August 29, 2024

Reflections on Kamala

By Philip Green | August 29, 2024

The Beijing Palestinian Reconciliation Agreement: An Opportunity not to Be Missed

By Menachem Kein | August 29, 2024

Longing for Simpler Times

By Joseph Chuman | July 23, 2024

The Crisis of the University and Student Movements

By Douglas Kellner | June 8, 2024

From The Archives

Interview: Catharine MacKinnon on Abortion and Misogyny

By Catharine MacKinnon | September 12, 2022

A Moral Vindication of Roe v. Wade

By Jack Crumley | September 22, 2018

Alt-Right: A Primer on the Online Brownshirts

By Chip Berlet | April 13, 2017

Behemoth Revisited: National Socialism and the Trump Administration

By Dan Krier | April 13, 2017

Critical Theory and the Persistence of Right-Wing Populism

By John Abromeit | September 9, 2016

Trumpism is Conservatism: The New Conservative Mainstream

By James E. Freeman | February 7, 2016

What Is a “Woman” Anyway?

By Lori Watson | August 4, 2015