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Women: Occupy the Left

Women: Occupy the Left Women: Occupy the Left

Why is it so hard to understand that women's rights are an economic issue?

May 2, 2012 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Mitt Romney’s Neocon War Cabinet

Mitt Romney’s Neocon War Cabinet Mitt Romney’s Neocon War Cabinet

Judging by his advisers, Romney would embrace Bush’s unilateral interventionism and massive military budgets.

May 2, 2012 / Feature / Ari Berman

Breivik’s Monstrous Dream—and Why It Failed

Breivik’s Monstrous Dream—and Why It Failed Breivik’s Monstrous Dream—and Why It Failed

As his trial unfolds, Norway exorcises some of its xenophobic demons.

May 2, 2012 / Feature / Moustafa Bayoumi

Roger Williams, America’s First Rebel

Roger Williams, America’s First Rebel Roger Williams, America’s First Rebel

The founder of Providence was the first to see that religious freedom, and separation of church and state, was intimately connected with political freedom.  

May 2, 2012 / Feature / John M. Barry

Empty and Full: On Stanley Whitney and Jacqueline Humphries

Empty and Full: On Stanley Whitney and Jacqueline Humphries Empty and Full: On Stanley Whitney and Jacqueline Humphries

When is a little more than enough in a painting?

May 2, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Democracy and Education: On Andrew Delbanco

Democracy and Education: On Andrew Delbanco Democracy and Education: On Andrew Delbanco

In College, Andrew Delbanco explains the reversal of the postwar project of democratic expansion in higher education.

May 2, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Richard Wolin

Leviticus Again Leviticus Again

   “And his issue is unclean,” 15:3   He is human and so will be humbled He is flesh and so will fail He is bone and so will be broken He is blood and so will bleed He has cheated and so will be changed He has deceived and so will be drained He has mocked and so will be muddied He is hollow and so will howl He has sullied and so will sadden He is nothing and so will be nought He is pain and so will perish He is emission and so will be missed He is water and so will weep He is cavernous and so will cry He is dross and so will disgust He is a carcass and so will be cast He has soured and so will stink He is rank and so will retch He is a worm and so will writhe He is corruption and will be betrayed He came forth, and so he will fade         Palestine, sixth century CE       (translated from the Hebrew by Peter Cole)

May 2, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Yannai

All in the Family: On Thomas Frank All in the Family: On Thomas Frank

Thomas Frank’s Pity the Billionaire is confused about the connection between the Tea Party and conservative cultural populism.

May 2, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Steve Fraser

NFL Player Junior Seau Takes His Own Life NFL Player Junior Seau Takes His Own Life

Junior Seau is the NFL’s second suicide in less than two weeks.

May 2, 2012 / Dave Zirin

The Recovery Is Really Good at Creating Bad Jobs The Recovery Is Really Good at Creating Bad Jobs

An economic rebound means little to workers forced into precarious work.

May 2, 2012 / Bryce Covert

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