End Student Debt!
Total debt now exceeds $1 trillion. We should write off existing debt and make public college free.
Print Magazine
May 21, 2012 Issue
Cover art by: Cover design by Milton Glaser Incorporated
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Editorial
Dial M for Murdoch
British investigations reveal the shocking extent of his shady tactics. Can we really believe he hasn’t used the same methods here?
Is Walmart Losing Its Bipartisan Luster?
In the wake of the Mexican bribery scandal, liberals who had been wooed by the giant retailer are having second thoughts.
Column
Women: Occupy the Left
Why is it so hard to understand that women's rights are an economic issue?
Letters
Letters
Feedback on the April 23 issue: praise for Elizabeth Warren, Jonathan Schell and Katniss Everdeen, and an Italian lesson for Barry Schwabsky.
Feature
Mitt Romney’s Neocon War Cabinet
Judging by his advisers, Romney would embrace Bush’s unilateral interventionism and massive military budgets.
Roger Williams, America’s First Rebel
The founder of Providence was the first to see that religious freedom, and separation of church and state, was intimately connected with political freedom.
Books & the Arts
Empty and Full: On Stanley Whitney and Jacqueline Humphries
When is a little more than enough in a painting?
Democracy and Education: On Andrew Delbanco
In College, Andrew Delbanco explains the reversal of the postwar project of democratic expansion in higher education.
All in the Family: On Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank’s Pity the Billionaire is confused about the connection between the Tea Party and conservative cultural populism.
