Don’t Know Much About History Don’t Know Much About History
The architects of our foreign-policy disasters would prefer we simply forget the past.
Jul 16, 2014 / Column / Eric Alterman
Religious Misunderstanding Religious Misunderstanding
Radical Buddhists rampage against Muslims in Myanmar. —News reports. Because we thought Buddhists were such peaceful guys, The riots in Burma were quite a surprise. A bloodthirsty Buddhist! That has us perplexed. We find ourselves wondering what could come next: Will violence flow from some Quaker disquiet? Should we be expecting a Mennonite riot? Are we going to see, bounding over the heath, An Amish jihadist who’s armed to the teeth?
Jul 16, 2014 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Just How Left-Wing Is Italy’s New Prime Minister? Just How Left-Wing Is Italy’s New Prime Minister?
The old left sneers at the recently elected Matteo Renzi. But he’s already carried out undeniably redistributive measures during his brief tenure.
Jul 16, 2014 / Frederika Randall
Comix Nation Comix Nation
Jul 15, 2014 / Eli Valley
Snapshot: The Prisoner Snapshot: The Prisoner
A veteran with PTSD sits in a holding cell in Illinois’s Cook County Jail after being arrested on a narcotics charge. With over 10,600 inmates, the jail is one of the country’s largest incarceration facilities. These local jails are increasingly being used as treatment centers for nonviolent offenders with serious mental illnesses.
Jul 15, 2014 / Charles Rex Arbogast
Kiev’s Atrocities and the Silence of the Hawks Kiev’s Atrocities and the Silence of the Hawks
We may honorably disagree about how to resolve the crisis—but not about deeds that are rising to the level of war crimes.
Jul 15, 2014 / Feature / Stephen F. Cohen
How Silicon Valley Millionaires Stole Progressivism How Silicon Valley Millionaires Stole Progressivism
In the battle against displacement in San Francisco, defenders of democracy are denounced as reactionaries, while agents of capital are lauded as revolutionaries.
Jul 15, 2014 / Feature / Zelda Bronstein
How the Anti-Iran Lobby Machine Dominates Capitol Hill How the Anti-Iran Lobby Machine Dominates Capitol Hill
Neocon think tanks get millions from wealthy donors, which they use to game the system, buy influence—and push for regime change.
Jul 15, 2014 / Feature / Eli Clifton and Ali Gharib
Writers or Missionaries? Writers or Missionaries?
A reporter’s journey involves writing with a sense of history and without false consolation.
Jul 15, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Adam Shatz
Boys, Men, Dogs, Eels Boys, Men, Dogs, Eels
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is as modest and patient an act of daredevilry as has ever been achieved on film.
Jul 15, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans