After the Midterms: Time to Fight Back

Opposing bad policy and bad compromises isn’t enough. We need new thinking and new approaches.

The Editors

Why Is Cuomo Leaving Wall Street Cash on the Table?

A little-known tax is already on the books.

Lenore Palladino and Sean McElwee

Can Big Government Solve the Mysteries of Autism and Alzheimer’s Disease?

Why we need Obama’s BRAIN Initiative.

Cori Bargmann

Snapshot: The End of Ebola

Thanks to Nigeria’s robust response to the Ebola crisis, the country is now free of the virus. Drawing on lessons from polio outbreaks, health workers made 18,000 visits to check the temperature of 898 people who may have come in contact with Nigeria’s first Ebola patient. Here, a teacher checks the temperature of a student in Lagos. Read More

Akintunde Akinleye

Congrats, Pro-Lifers, You Won! Now I Have Just a Few Questions for You

What would your abortion compromise look like? What will you do for pregnant women who can’t afford a child? And more.

Katha Pollitt

The Ebola Quarantine Isn’t Just Stupid—It’s Deadly

Of all the panicked and irrational reactions to Ebola, the outrageous treatment of volunteers like Kaci Hickox and Ryan Boyko is the most dangerous.

Richard Kim

By the Way

Calvin Trillin

Calculators and Butterflies

Italo Calvino’s Complete Cosmicomics thrives on the tension between ideas and art.

Aaron Thier

Letters

War on whistleblowers… outsourcing pollution…

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