The Great Regression The Great Regression
The decline of the progressive income tax and the rise of inequality.
Feb 6, 2013 / Feature / Sam Pizzigati and Chuck Collins
Letters Letters
Art for change, change for art; Haiti: hotels or houses?
Feb 5, 2013 / Our Readers and Amy Wilentz
Puzzle No. 3271 Puzzle No. 3271
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Feb 5, 2013 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Open Letter on Academic Freedom From ‘The Nation’ to New York Elected Officials Open Letter on Academic Freedom From ‘The Nation’ to New York Elected Officials
We urge readers to sign The Nation’s open letter in support of academic freedom at CUNY.
Feb 5, 2013 / NationAction
Living Next Door to Mississippi’s Last Abortion Clinic Living Next Door to Mississippi’s Last Abortion Clinic
Regardless of politics, nobody wants to wake up to the sound of “baby killers!”
Feb 5, 2013 / Nona Willis Aronowitz
Torture and Taboo: On Elaine Scarry Torture and Taboo: On Elaine Scarry
How the work of a literary critic became the proxy for our preoccupation with the horrors of torture.
Feb 5, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn
Making Strange: On Victor Shklovsky Making Strange: On Victor Shklovsky
A Russian novelist’s fight, in life and art, to see the world afresh in all its cruelty and splendor.
Feb 5, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Ben Ehrenreich
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger’s Jews and Words.
Feb 5, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Laura Brahm
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Does Obama Really Shoot Skeet? Who Cares? Katrina vanden Heuvel: Does Obama Really Shoot Skeet? Who Cares?
As the Washington media gleefully covers the skeet shooting photo, real issues like joblessness get left left by the wayside.
Feb 5, 2013 / Press Room
Why Don’t White-Collar Criminals Get Equal Time? Why Don’t White-Collar Criminals Get Equal Time?
The Justice Department is suing Standard & Poor’s. But why isn’t anyone going to jail?
Feb 5, 2013 / William Greider