Could the Pentagon Be Responsible for Your Death? Could the Pentagon Be Responsible for Your Death?
A look at a potentially shocking Pentagon program to influence jihadis online that Congress should investigate fast.
Aug 11, 2011 / Tom Engelhardt
Cut, Cap and Balance Cut, Cap and Balance
(A Republican version of “Brush Up Your Shakespeare,” from Kiss Me, Kate) Cut, cap and balance. Just turn off the tap. Cut, cap and balance. Shut that purse up with a snap. Let’s cut wasteful programs in bunches— Like research and poor kids’ school lunches. All life is not really a fed affair, So let’s take a scalpel to Medicare. ’Cause if rich people pay less in taxes We’ll still whip that Evil old Axis. All citizens will be in clover If we just heed the teaching of Grover. Cut, cap and balance. Balance, cut and cap.
Aug 10, 2011 / Column / Calvin Trillin
John Nichols: Wisconsin May Now Have a Pro-Labor Senate Majority John Nichols: Wisconsin May Now Have a Pro-Labor Senate Majority
John Nichols explains why last night's recall elections in Wisconsin were a victory for progressives.
Aug 10, 2011 / Press Room
A 24/7 Spotlight on Murdoch A 24/7 Spotlight on Murdoch
We need to regain and sustain that momentum If we are to have an independent, fearless and incorruptible media, we have to investigate the Murdochization of our media and politics ...
Aug 10, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
F*** the Environment! F*** the Environment!
Thomas Lennon, Ben Garant, Cathy Shim, Ed Asner & Mindy Sterling offer a modest, sensible solution for your environmental concerns.
Aug 10, 2011 / Peter Rothberg
Europe’s Turn to the Right Europe’s Turn to the Right
What is the link between the Norway killer’s actions and the ideas he espoused?
Aug 10, 2011 / Feature / Ian Buruma
As Go Unions, So Goes the Middle Class As Go Unions, So Goes the Middle Class
The fate of America’s unions and the fate of our middle class are inextricably intertwined.
Aug 10, 2011 / Press Room
Can Teachers Alone Overcome Poverty? Steven Brill Thinks So Can Teachers Alone Overcome Poverty? Steven Brill Thinks So
The journalist blames teachers unions, not economic inequality, for students’ failure to achieve.
Aug 10, 2011 / Feature / Dana Goldstein
A New Kind of Southern Strategy A New Kind of Southern Strategy
The threat of Arizona-style laws has strengthened pro-immigrant coalitions in unlikely places.
Aug 10, 2011 / Feature / Susan Eaton
Rethinking Politics in the Classroom Rethinking Politics in the Classroom
We need a mandatory course in every high school that looks at society through the lens of ethics and morality, rather than efficiency and productivity.
Aug 10, 2011 / Feature / Daniel Judt