Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal Caught in Iranian Power Struggle? Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal Caught in Iranian Power Struggle?
Despite President Ahmadinejad's claim that the hikers will be freed shortly, the Iranian judiciary is balking.
Sep 14, 2011 / Richard Kim
Elizabeth Warren Runs Against a DC That’s ‘Rigged for Big Corporations’ Elizabeth Warren Runs Against a DC That’s ‘Rigged for Big Corporations’
The consumer advocate's pitch-perfect populist message is exactly what Democrats need to say—and hear—in 2012.
Sep 14, 2011 / John Nichols
Elizabeth Warren Runs Against a DC That’s “Rigged for Big Corporations” Elizabeth Warren Runs Against a DC That’s “Rigged for Big Corporations”
The consumer advocate's pitch-perfect populist message is exactly what Democrats need to say -- and hear -- in 2012.
Sep 14, 2011 / John Nichols
The Pointless Republican Victory in New York’s 9th The Pointless Republican Victory in New York’s 9th
Pundits see the race as a bad omen for Obama, but Democrat David Weprin’s loss may well have turned on Israel politics.
Sep 14, 2011 / Ben Adler
Letters Letters
The power of community; CCP on voter ID; welcome, sluts!
Sep 14, 2011 / Our Readers and John Nichols
Puzzle No. 3207 Puzzle No. 3207
ACROSS 1 Polish a cow’s utterances to create menu item (7,5) 10 Menu item (burp!) tosses slurs all over the place (8,7) 11 Speaker placing conjunction beside conjunction (6) 12 Running back through Utah, pat one celebratory monument (8) 14 Menu item requires money from a folder? (6,5) 17 and 23 Speak of naïveté, so to speak (2,1,5) 18 See 24 19 Towhead, on shifting front to back, to whip up menu item (6,5) 22 You in stockings? That’s pretty steamy (8) 24 and 18 After musical note, avant-garde tune incorporated composition by J.S. Bach (6,2,1) 27 Menu item makes vice and immorality smart and cool, so they say (10,5) 28 “Love Me Tender”: off-key menu item (6,6) DOWN 2 Say, you have… you will… uh… something hanging down the back of your throat (5) 3 Wrapped in foil, his synthetic substance with health benefits (4,3) 4 Primarily, lay (or lie) lazily! (4) 5 Garbage was there, outside (5) 6 Rising star gulps, overstressed and on edge (7) 7 Auto sails around town near the Golden Gate Bridge (9) 8 Leopold, to name one, is flowering (6) 9 Like complicated math, it can take your breath away (6) 13 At first, student can read (4) 15 Tobacco-stained coin, bent with prongs (9) 16 Assert a German car takes in oxygen (4) 18 Chat distractedly in Iowa, where some Ivy Leaguers can be found (6) 19 Asian ballad: “Sea Whispers” (7) 20 “Liveliness”: in Italy, what describes a baked good (7) 21 A vital developing nation (6) 23 See 17 25 Useful and necessary for playing “QUIZ” in Scrabble (5) 26 Going up and down, it’s the same guy (4) ACROSS 1 INCAS + E 4 COAL + ES(C)E (see anag.) 9 anag. 11 T + ANGLED 12 hidden 13 COMP[l]ETE 14 L + ARK 15 T(OIL)ETRIES (Trieste anag.) 18 anag. 21 ST(A)Y 22 STA(N)DEE (seated anag.) 24 anag. 27 hidden 28 LEG ENDS 29 (F/W)IND (W/F)ARM 30 FR + OWNS DOWN 1 anag. 2 anag. 3 S + CRAM 5 anag. 6 anag. 7 S + OLVE (love anag.) 8 END(L)ES + SLY (dense anag.) 10 CELL + O 14 LAST + STRAW (warts rev.) 16 IN TH(E) K + NOW (think anag.) 17 TR(AD)E-OFF (effort anag.) 19 [st]ATELIER 20 E(QUA)L 23 [c]ALVIN 25 C(I + G)AR 26 R + USES
Sep 14, 2011 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Gratitude and Forbearance: On Christopher Lasch Gratitude and Forbearance: On Christopher Lasch
Christopher Lasch and his quest for the moral resources of the next New Deal.
Sep 14, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Norman Birnbaum
Soft Sells: On Liberal Internationalism Soft Sells: On Liberal Internationalism
Why does John Ikenberry think the sorrows of liberal internationalism are temporary?
Sep 14, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn
Treatment Treatment
The relationship between a handsome young broker and a lovely young curator is in trouble. Before they can marry, he must come to tolerate, then feel guarded affection for a good natured buffoon who populates dioramas with stuffed mouse couples in period dress, then for an assortment of others, some less likeable, who also take passionate interest in an activity that generates no profit
Sep 14, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Rae Armantrout
Agents of Destruction Agents of Destruction
Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion, Göran Hugo Olsson’s Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975, Tate Taylor’s The Help
Sep 14, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans