Ronald Reagan Superstar Ronald Reagan Superstar
Reagan proved that deficits don't matter—and truth doesn't either.
Feb 17, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Selling History Short in Mississippi Selling History Short in Mississippi
Why is Haley Barbour so eager to turn Mississippi into a civil rights tourist attraction?
Feb 17, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Gary Younge
Where Hunger Goes: On the Green Revolution Where Hunger Goes: On the Green Revolution
Nick Cullather’s The Hungry World teaches us that US agricultural assistance in Asia during the cold war was a Green Counterrevolution.
Feb 17, 2011 / Books & the Arts / David Rieff
Spring Spring
Larvae harden into adults, into the complexity of distinct anatomy— windowed wings, legs like stitches—tossing off the sodden blanket of the soft body, their innocence lisping over the pig, oomphs and fizzes forming a transcript of triumphs, but what does it mean to win, out here? Spring’s raffle: who will live, who’ll become distressed and wish for a place to climb in. I’m watching the air fill with the born-again, resting on the corpse of the rotted oak. Tomorrow I’ll drag it, chain-sawed to thick tablets, into the woods. No tragedy to watch it go. The insects have broken from that burrow into warm air. Snow has melted from bark and pooled. With nowhere to turn.
Feb 17, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Paula Bohince
Being in the World: On James Miller Being in the World: On James Miller
With Examined Lives, James Miller offers a serious and readable study of the relationship between philosophy and life conduct.
Feb 17, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Richard Wolin
Live Tweeting the Wisconsin Protests Live Tweeting the Wisconsin Protests
On-the-ground updates from Wisconsin protesters.
Feb 17, 2011 / The Nation
Katrina vanden Heuvel: To Create Jobs, We Need Spending Katrina vanden Heuvel: To Create Jobs, We Need Spending
When there are 25 million people out of work, underemployed, seeking work, Katrina vanden Heuvel says, nobody should be talking about cutting vital services to the most vulnera...
Feb 17, 2011 / Press Room
Arab Uprisings: What the February 20 Protests Tell Us About Morocco Arab Uprisings: What the February 20 Protests Tell Us About Morocco
Morocco, long considered one of the most stable Arab countries, is not immune to the unrest sweeping the region.
Feb 17, 2011 / Laila Lalami
ON WISCONSIN: Live Reports From Ground Zero for Labor Rights ON WISCONSIN: Live Reports From Ground Zero for Labor Rights
LIVE reports from Wisconsin, where the governor is seeking to end collective bargaining, and tens of thousands of union members and their allies are rallying in opposition.
Feb 17, 2011 / John Nichols
If Only Washington Had a Brain If Only Washington Had a Brain
There’s a perfectly obvious path toward that Republican goal of $100 billion in cuts: change our thinking about making war.
Feb 17, 2011 / Tom Engelhardt