Obama’s Kill List: Silence Is Not an Option
Liberals raised a ruckus over Bush’s abuses. Let’s hold this president to the same standard.
Print Magazine
June 25, 2012 Issue
Cover art by: Cover illustration by Mirko Ilic, design by Milton Glaser Incorporated
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Editorial
Chris Hayes and ‘Heroes’
The MSNBC host and Nation editor at large has always been a thoughtful and fair journalist. That includes how he conducted himself in the controversy around his Memoria...
The Lessons of Wisconsin
The depressing defeat of the recall suggests that “money power” cannot be easily thwarted, even by determined “people power.”
Noted
Jacob Remes on the student strikes in Quebec; plus, a well-deserved prize for Katha Pollitt
A Crisis of Spirit in the Age of ‘Colbert’
The values of the market have come to permeate every aspect of our society.
Column
How Our Genetic Maps Are Being Sold to the Highest Bidder
People who give DNA samples—and big bucks—to companies in exchange for information on their potential medical risks are handing over more than saliva.
Show Us the Money
A web of right-wing groups bankrolled by billionaires dominates our politics. Our media shouldn’t let them remain in the shadows.
Letters
Feature
Why Elites Fail
They’re hyper-educated, ambitious and well rewarded. So why are our elites so incompetent?
A Politics for the 99 Percent
Progressives must take the fall election seriously, even as they challenge the limits of the debate.
Egypt at War With Itself
On the eve of the presidential runoff, a once-molten political landscape has hardened into a handful of rival camps.
Books & the Arts
A Crisis of Spirit in the Age of ‘Colbert’
The values of the market have come to permeate every aspect of our society.
The Higher Bealism: The Moral Limits of Markets
Why are moral and political thinkers failing to engage with the true, dispiriting scale of market sovereignty?
Ghosts and Machines: On Anne Tyler and Peter Carey
The Beginner’s Goodbye, The Chemistry of Tears and the burden of inheritance.
