Looking at Maps Looking at Maps
If they’d had writing in time, Cuba could have been Crete, watery source of the Minoans and thus the Greeks. What’s lost? A possible us growing like new foliage out of stony ground, emerging? Last voice, first, a whole world calling— awful, inaudible—into the unstoppable loud (roaring!) hurricane-force sea wind.
Mar 30, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Elizabeth Arnold
Bring the No-Fly Zone Home to Arizona Bring the No-Fly Zone Home to Arizona
Could Obama and his supporters take a break from celebrating so-called no-fly zones—and take a look at what’s happening in Arizona?
Mar 30, 2011 / Laura Flanders
Readjustments: On ‘Win Win,’ ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ and ‘My Perestroika’ Readjustments: On ‘Win Win,’ ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ and ‘My Perestroika’
Is it a good thing that film—not the audiovisual materials that exist everywhere but movies, projected in public spaces— has stopped being central to American life?
Mar 30, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Jimmy Carter: Lift Trade Embargo Against Cuba Jimmy Carter: Lift Trade Embargo Against Cuba
The former US president calls for open travel for US citizens and freedom for Alan Gross and the Cuban Five.
Mar 30, 2011 / Peter Kornbluh
Donald Trump Demands That Obama Show His Birth Certificate Donald Trump Demands That Obama Show His Birth Certificate
All White House hopefuls we forewarn: You’ll have to prove that you were born. Before Trump hits the state of granite, He’ll have to tell us all the planet Upon which he was born and reared— Where loudmouths reign and hair is weird.
Mar 30, 2011 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Nation Conversations: Betsy Reed and Jeremy Scahill on Unrest in Yemen Nation Conversations: Betsy Reed and Jeremy Scahill on Unrest in Yemen
Is the US supplying a dictator with arms and training to suppress the Yemeni people?
Mar 30, 2011 / The Nation
Christian Parenti: The Nuclear ‘Sacrifice Zone’ in Japan Christian Parenti: The Nuclear ‘Sacrifice Zone’ in Japan
In Japan, fears about nuclear fallout have only been getting worse as disaster cleanup crews struggle with radioactive water leaking out of the Fukushima plant.
Mar 30, 2011 / MSNBC
The Dangerous US Game in Yemen The Dangerous US Game in Yemen
If President Saleh falls, the US will have lost a pliant partner in its “global war on terror.”
Mar 30, 2011 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
Jim Messina, Obama’s Enforcer Jim Messina, Obama’s Enforcer
The president's re-election campaign manager has alienated grassroots constituencies.
Mar 30, 2011 / Feature / Ari Berman
Naoto Kan and the End of ‘Japan Inc.’ Naoto Kan and the End of ‘Japan Inc.’
Criticism of the government’s response to the catastrophe has obscured major political changes.
Mar 30, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Tim Shorrock