The Unfathomable Cuts in Housing Aid The Unfathomable Cuts in Housing Aid
Ignoring the signs of dire need, the government is slashing its housing budget.
Dec 14, 2011 / Feature / Patrick Markee
Medicaid in Crisis Medicaid in Crisis
The insurance program is facing its toughest challenges just as the health reform law is poised to expand eligibility for millions of Americans.
Dec 14, 2011 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky
Hard Knocks in the Bronx Hard Knocks in the Bronx
Meet Ginnina Slowe, resident of the nation’s poorest urban county, where poverty is expensive—especially when you try to get out of it.
Dec 14, 2011 / Feature / Kai Wright
A Proud, Angry Poor A Proud, Angry Poor
What the Occupy movement could do for poor people—and vice versa.
Dec 14, 2011 / Feature / Frances Fox Piven
Obama Gets Occupied Obama Gets Occupied
The president has started talking like a populist. It took the Occupy movement to make him do it.
Dec 14, 2011 / The Editors
Durban: Where the Climate Deniers-in-Chief Ran the Show Durban: Where the Climate Deniers-in-Chief Ran the Show
Thanks to a new and frightening breed of climate denier, our chances of avoiding catastrophe just got worse.
Dec 14, 2011 / Mark Hertsgaard
Noted. Noted.
Katrina vanden Heuvel on Andrew Cuomo and OWS, Collier Meyerson on the abuse of Muslim prisoners, Alexandra Tempus on ethical holiday shopping, and boycott Lowe’s!
Dec 14, 2011 / Various Contributors
Showdown in the Eurozone Showdown in the Eurozone
The strange thing about last week’s Brussels compact is that it is irrelevant to the task at hand—avoiding collapse of the euro.
Dec 14, 2011 / Andy Robinson
Letters Letters
On Naomi Klein, Ariel Dorfman, Gary Younge, Louis Uchitelle, Mary Robinson
Dec 14, 2011 / Our Readers
Puzzle No. 3220 Puzzle No. 3220
ACROSS 1 and 12 Part of home stereo system for politician (7,2,3,5) 5 Militant, not unlike a street vendor? (7) 9 Intense book about a lion: Wild (9) 10 Ballerinas penetrate housing for Quaker? (5) 11 Music for two called morning moisture moist (4) 12 See 1 across 14 Preeminent and prudish: Gore (6) 16 In a chatroom, silent types attract about 1,000 heartless rogues (7) 17 and 22 Single piece of furniture’s hookup (3,5,5) 18 Greens lead around alternative (7) 19 Eviscerate study to check method (6) 22 See 17 across 23 Joke following student’s first slide (4) 26 Mimicking a knock from the engine (5) 27 Copper in ring corroded figure… (9) 28 …even inside overdue baby’s clothes (7) 29 Tech pioneer: “I know A-Z, but in a different order” (7) DOWN 1 Accelerate return of young dogs to captivate Sandra (5,2) 2 Call forth the First Lady, securing permission (5) 3 Fabric displayed by Greek nitwit (4) 4 Second round urn? (6) 5 Greeting involves Haitian leader in Port-au-Prince, the scene of misery (8) 6 Watchfulness you and I agreed to maintain at that point (7,3) 7 Careless urchin, unrefined and not without love (9) 8 Nerdish tangle impedes… (7) 13 …engineer that grew it, allowing neither 4 nor 21 (10) 15 Amid wandering, tiny trace of ethical courage and honesty (9) 17 The Spanish cat’s smell wafts up—that’s a deterrent (8) 18 What you might do on bumping into a donkey: duck! (7) 20 Between Tuesday and Thursday, recognize Wednesday comes in like a lamb (7) 21 Revenue from news, mostly meager (6) 24 Sikh, a kinsman, sports brown cloth (5) 25 Hum with Neil’s partner (4) ACROSS 1 RABBI + TEARS 6 2 defs. 10 2 defs. 11 anag. 12 “let’s” 13 AVO[w] + I + DANCE 14 anag. 15 B + EAGLE 18 S(ED)ANS 19 I + R(ON)ING 21 O(VERB)ITES (toes I anag.) 23 anag. 25 rev. 26 RE + VEREN(C)E (veneer anag.) 27 NAT + O 28 G(HOSTS)TORY DOWN 1 rev. 2 anag. 3 IN + VESTMENT + BANK 4 EMU + LATE + D 5 RAT(I) ON 7 P(R)AWN 8 anag. 9 pun 14 LA(STONE)IN 16 GL IS S AND O 17 MISS + IVES 20 ST + ARCH 22 [s]EXIST 24 REED + Y (deer rev.)
Dec 14, 2011 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto