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Why Tea Partiers Think They’re Winning Why Tea Partiers Think They’re Winning

The columnists they read all share their views. Talk-radio is where they get their news. They spurn the facts objective pollsters gather. They’re suffering, alas, from Bubble Blather.

Oct 16, 2013 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Live Updates: Debt Ceiling Shutdown Approaches Zero Hour

Live Updates: Debt Ceiling Shutdown Approaches Zero Hour Live Updates: Debt Ceiling Shutdown Approaches Zero Hour

Congress is moving to end the showdown, but will hard-liners slow everything down?

Oct 16, 2013 / George Zornick, Annie Shields, Steven Hsieh, and Zoë Carpenter

Forty-Five Years Later, John Carlos and Tommie Smith Have Never Been More Relevant

Forty-Five Years Later, John Carlos and Tommie Smith Have Never Been More Relevant Forty-Five Years Later, John Carlos and Tommie Smith Have Never Been More Relevant

On this, the forty-fifth anniversary of the fists of freedom at the 1968 Olympics, we need a new Olympic Project for Human Rights.

Oct 16, 2013 / Dave Zirin

Praying for Broken Hearts in the GOP

Praying for Broken Hearts in the GOP Praying for Broken Hearts in the GOP

A hundred and fifty people of faith and furloughed workers marched on the offices of GOP leaders.

Oct 16, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann

The Long and Short of Memory

The Long and Short of Memory The Long and Short of Memory

What the modern science of memory owes to the amnesiac patient H.M.

Oct 16, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Charles Gross

An Organized Jumble

An Organized Jumble An Organized Jumble

For all its postmodern flair, the revamped Benjamin Franklin Museum is surprisingly traditional and constrained.

Oct 16, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Julia M. Klein

Dignity’s Due Dignity’s Due

Why are philosophers invoking the notion of human dignity to revitalize theories of political ethics?

Oct 16, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn

Shelf Life

Shelf Life Shelf Life

Lucien Jaume’s Tocqueville: The Aristocratic Sources of Liberty.

Oct 16, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Elias Altman

Letters Letters

Horror in Afghanistan… the great Charlie Mingus… field trip to the South Bronx

Oct 16, 2013 / Our Readers and Barry Schwabsky

Puzzle No. 3299 Puzzle No. 3299

And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.

Oct 15, 2013 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

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