Beyond Bayonets and Battleships Beyond Bayonets and Battleships
The future of US global power is in space warfare.
Nov 8, 2012 / Alfred W. McCoy
Paul Ryan and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Election Day Paul Ryan and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Election Day
The presidential ticket he was on did not just lose nationally, it lost his hometown and his home county and his homestate.
Nov 8, 2012 / John Nichols
Letters Letters
Teachable moment; lizard brains’ll getcha every time; good deficits, bad deficits; industrial diet; the debates next time
Nov 8, 2012 / Our Readers
A Progressive Surge A Progressive Surge
The “rising American electorate” carried Obama and a strong slate of Democrats to victory.
Nov 8, 2012 / The Editors
Noted Noted
Allison Kilkenny on Occupy Sandy, Michael Tracey on voting after the hurricane, Betsy Reed on New Hampshire's Maggie Hassan, Sasha Abramsky on the end of “three strikes&r...
Nov 8, 2012 / Various Contributors
Superstorm Sandy—a People’s Shock? Superstorm Sandy—a People’s Shock?
The recovery could be an opportunity to realign our relationship with the natural world.
Nov 8, 2012 / Naomi Klein
Democracy Democracy
(A Patriotic Hymn for Republicans) Despite the fact that incidents of in-person voter fraud in the United States are exceedingly rare, the GOP has used the issue to tighten election laws around the country. —News reports American children are all taught in school That voting’s democracy’s most vital tool. But in the wrong hands all that voting can bring A little too much of a very good thing. Yes, too many voters of darker complexion Can cause the wrong person to win an election. And college kids mostly are just in a phase That makes them left wing and supportive of gays. To us, each of them is a dangerous blighter Whose voting should wait till he’s older and whiter. So we put in laws we have reason to think Will mean that the strength of these voters will shrink. We shorten the hours, and ask for a lot Of picture IDs—more than anyone’s got. Their votes aren’t the votes that the framers intended. We only regret that the poll tax has ended. The voting we need in this land of the free Is voting by people with whom we agree.
Nov 8, 2012 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The You’re-on-Your-Own Society The You’re-on-Your-Own Society
In this election, the deepest division was over whether we are all in this together.
Nov 8, 2012 / Column / Katha Pollitt
If We Ignore Climate Change, We’re All on a Sinking Ship If We Ignore Climate Change, We’re All on a Sinking Ship
If there was ever a response to Mitt Romney’s smug RNC laugh line about climate change—or to Obama’s failure to address it—Hurricane Sandy delivered.
Nov 8, 2012 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Eve Ensler Rising Eve Ensler Rising
With a new play, Emotional Creature, and big plans for V-Day 2013, the activist playwright reaches for new heights.
Nov 8, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Laura Flanders