Why Are Children Working in American Tobacco Fields? Why Are Children Working in American Tobacco Fields?
Young farm workers are falling ill from “green tobacco sickness” while the industry denies it and government lets it happen.
Nov 12, 2013 / Feature / Gabriel Thompson
Regulations Are Killed, and Kids Die Regulations Are Killed, and Kids Die
Under pressure, the Obama administration withdrew rules barring young laborers from dangerous work—a decision with grave consequences for several families.
Nov 12, 2013 / Feature / Mariya Strauss
The Man Who Knew Almost Everything The Man Who Knew Almost Everything
Inside the great social historian Eric Hobsbawm there was an aesthete waiting to come out.
Nov 12, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Ramachandra Guha
Behind the Storm Behind the Storm
Was World War I the outcome of elite machinations?
Nov 12, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Tara Zahra
Roman Holidays Roman Holidays
Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty; Alexander Sokurov’s Faust; Wladyslaw Pasikowski’s Aftermath
Nov 12, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Letters Letters
Immodest proposals… of skinheads and Tea Partiers… Queequeg rules… literate reviews
Nov 12, 2013 / Our Readers and Stuart Klawans
Puzzle No. 3303 Puzzle No. 3303
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Nov 12, 2013 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Typhoon Haiyan: The Global Poor Bear the Deadly Brunt of Climate Change Typhoon Haiyan: The Global Poor Bear the Deadly Brunt of Climate Change
History illustrates that Typhoon Haiyan was a man-made disaster that’s the result of climate debt.
Nov 12, 2013 / Aura Bogado
Stop Blaming Black Men for the Dolphins Locker-Room Racism Stop Blaming Black Men for the Dolphins Locker-Room Racism
Many writers put the fault for Richie Incognito's racist bullying on a generation of African-American players. This is just wrong.
Nov 12, 2013 / Dave Zirin
Katrina vanden Heuvel: CBS’s Egregious Double Standard Katrina vanden Heuvel: CBS’s Egregious Double Standard
What Laura Logan's apology means.
Nov 12, 2013 / Press Room