Letters Letters
Bill Moyers hits it out of the park, Rita Dove writes and Jeremy Bass replies, Wangari Maathai was missed, comments about our look
Dec 6, 2011 / Our Readers and Jeremy Bass
The Competition Pandemic The Competition Pandemic
HIGH SCHOOL FINALIST: The demise of society will be the result of an insidious disease.
Dec 6, 2011 / Stephanie Weiner
Balance: A Crisis of Information and Democracy Balance: A Crisis of Information and Democracy
COLLEGE FINALIST: In the service of maintaining what passes as "balance," journalists strip news of both truth and controversy.
Dec 6, 2011 / Melanie Muller
In Osawatomie, Obama Embraces New Populist Moment In Osawatomie, Obama Embraces New Populist Moment
The president’s big speech in Kansas today reflected the extent to which Occupy Wall Street has changed the country’s political conversation.
Dec 6, 2011 / Ari Berman
Playing With Fire: Obama’s Risky Oil Threat to China Playing With Fire: Obama’s Risky Oil Threat to China
From now on, the primary focus of American military strategy will not be counterterrorism, but the containment of an economically booming China— at whatever risk or cost.
Dec 6, 2011 / Michael T. Klare
It’s Accountability Time for Banks and Wall Street It’s Accountability Time for Banks and Wall Street
The bailouts were worse than we thought.
Dec 6, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Scott Sherman: Is the Renovation of New York’s Public Library Modernization or Cultural Damage? Scott Sherman: Is the Renovation of New York’s Public Library Modernization or Cultural Damage?
Will the new president's mega-million-dollar makeover of the main library scare off scholars and leave the branches begging?
Dec 6, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Press Room
Paul Ryan’s Undeserved Awards Paul Ryan’s Undeserved Awards
Politico naming Paul Ryan “Health Care Policymaker of the Year” is as ludicrous as deficit hawk groups giving him a “fiscal responsibility” award.
Dec 6, 2011 / Ari Berman
The Postal Service Plots Its Own Demise The Postal Service Plots Its Own Demise
Cuts in service, shuttering facilities and mass layoffs will hurt workers, communities, the USPS and the economy.
Dec 6, 2011 / John Nichols
Digging for Democracy Digging for Democracy
COLLEGE FINALIST: The range of options that my generation has to choose from has been whittled to a handful of bad ones. I am coming of age not in the land of the free, but in...
Dec 6, 2011 / Zoë Carpenter