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    • Issue 3: Winter 2015

    Editorial

    The Entrepreneur and the Citizen Scalawag

    Field Notes

    The Hidden Politics of Immigration Enforcement Jennifer Jones & Hana Brown

    Raising Foot Soldiers for an Imaginary Holy War David Brockman

    Hope You Remember: Resilience and Resistance 10 Years After Katrina Anna Simonton

    Features

    Scenes from Lowndes County Danielle Purifoy

    The SNAP Trap Joel Dillard

    To Catch a Carp Boyce Upholt

    Is Hampton Roads on the Edge of the Apocalypse Michael Schulson

    By Other Means

    Poor Liam (poem) Kristian Becker

    New Orleans, August 2015 (photoessay) Nik Neburn

    By the Numbers: Parole and Mandatory Minimums Bryan Davis

    God of the Motorcade (poem) Joy Priest

    Fat Sherri (poem) Ashley Keyser

    Issue 2: Fall 2015

    Editorial

    Death and Politics Scalawag

    Field Notes

    To Stay in the Loving Arms of Our Mountains Rachel Garringer

    The South's Late Turn Toward Democracy M. Calhoun Shafer

    If When You Give the Best of Your Service Peter McElroy

    BiDil, Race, and 21st Century Medicine Zach Wortman

    Features

    Berlin, the Blues Ambassador, and the Imagined South Amien Essif

    Marshland: Mythmaking in the Georgia Tidewater Sarah Bufkin

    Keeping North Carolina's Haw River Whole Cheney Gardner

    By Other Means

    By the Numbers: Antebellum slavery and modern inequality Robert L. Reece

    With Commentary: The more things change... Jesse Williams

    12/28 (poem) Aurielle Lucier

    The Mortals (poem) Allison Seay

    The Struggle is Real (photo essay) Julian Plowden

    Issue 1: Summer 2015

    Editorial

    Why This, Why Now? Scalawag

    Field Notes

    The True Loser in the Midterm Elections William H. Chafe

    The Police, the Law, and the Unjustified Use of Force Irving Joyner

    Old-Time Storytelling R. Blakeslee Gilpin

    Interview: Ajamu Dillahunt, Civil Rights Organizer Jonathan Michels

    Features

    We Have a Duty to Win: Vignettes from Atlanta Anna Simonton

    Hiding in Plain Sight David Neal

    Constituting North Carolina Jedediah Purdy

    Be Nice Voodoo Hands Kate Selker

    By Other Means

    Wilmington 1898 Rajeev Rajendran

    Sunday on Key Largo Sam Huber

    The State of the Child Sarah Bufkin

    Made in Durham Joslin Simms & Justin Cook