Why Are Feminists So Angry? Why Are Feminists So Angry?
Jessica Valenti speaks to Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast in Texas about anger, activism, and reproductive rights.
Jan 30, 2013 / Jessica Valenti
Sharif Abdel Kouddous: ‘Right Now, Egypt Is Ungovernable’ Sharif Abdel Kouddous: ‘Right Now, Egypt Is Ungovernable’
The young Egyptian government could be on the brink of collapse.
Jan 30, 2013 / Press Room
How to Raise a Progressive Kid in Alabama How to Raise a Progressive Kid in Alabama
It takes effort—and often money.
Jan 30, 2013 / Nona Willis Aronowitz
Virginia Republicans’ Bizarre Notion of ‘Fair’ Voting Virginia Republicans’ Bizarre Notion of ‘Fair’ Voting
If the state GOP's effort to reconfigure electoral college tallying would have been law last year, hundreds of thousands of black voters would have waited hours in line for not...
Jan 30, 2013 / Brentin Mock
Environmentalists Are Rankled by Some Details of the Sandy Bill Environmentalists Are Rankled by Some Details of the Sandy Bill
Republicans stripped away important coastal restoration money and screwed a small nature preserve in Connecticut for no reason.
Jan 30, 2013 / George Zornick
Nick Turse: The US Military Regularly Killed Civilians in Vietnam Nick Turse: The US Military Regularly Killed Civilians in Vietnam
A new book shows that incidents like the My Lai massacre were part of the widescale killing of non-combatants.
Jan 30, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Press Room
Safety Net: On Thomas Bernhard and Siegfried Unseld Safety Net: On Thomas Bernhard and Siegfried Unseld
In his writing and life, Thomas Bernhard led a charge in the opposite direction. His publisher always broke his fall.
Jan 30, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Holly Case
Instructions From Lazarus Instructions From Lazarus
Having risen from the bed, after the ability to stand had been re-established, the gait still adjusting to the shifts of the body’s weight, I found myself in front of the streaked mirror in the hospital room. The halo was dull in that light, almost brushed in appearance. How saintly of me to wear a halo? I wanted a narrator to say: Here, he models the latest headwear, the finest in German engineering. But James Earl Jones was apparently unavailable. The pins buried in my skull looked like a nautical device of some kind. But there were no journeys for me to take, just a bed and a room. My nurse’s name was Zar, short for Lazarus. Of course his name was Lazarus. It fits with the theme of this whole thing. Zar said take it easy, said move slowly and think about each step as if you are learning to walk. But one doesn’t think about each step when learning to walk. We rise, we fumble, we shuffle, we fall. The wings, buried (thankfully) were just an itch between my shoulder blades, a slight tug on the muscles depending on the way I moved. Each night I prayed to make it out of the hospital before the wings made themselves known again.
Jan 30, 2013 / Books & the Arts / C. Dale Young
Diagram This: On Adrienne Rich Diagram This: On Adrienne Rich
A new collection of Adrienne Rich’s poems does not show her at her best.
Jan 30, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Letters Letters
The Morgen Freiheit; let's get real on Cuba; Bach...
Jan 30, 2013 / Our Readers and Eric Alterman