Cuomo Fails Public Schools
While progressives protest the budget-slashing of Tea Party governors like Wisconsin's Scott Walker, are Democrats like New York's Andrew Cuomo getting a free pass?
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September 26, 2011 Issue
Cover art by: Cover photo by Rick Rowley, design by Milton Glaser Incorporated
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Editorial
Go Big, Mr. President
Four things Obama can push in his speech tonight to get America back on track.
Column
Secrets of the Keystone XL Pipeline
Our country has no need for the Keystone pipeline extension.
The Poor: Still Here, Still Poor
We keep hearing about how the recession wounded the middle class. But the poor are hurting much worse.
Letters
Visions and Revisions: On T.S. Eliot
Two volumes of T.S. Eliot's letters elucidate how the momentous achievements of his art were determined by moments of awful daring.
Letters
Words as weapons, austerity in the eurozone, Francis Perkins, stop the foreclosures
Feature
Trapped on the European Fringe
Caught in debt, being fed the poison of austerity, the victims of Europe’s crisis seek a path out.
Books & the Arts
Visions and Revisions: On T.S. Eliot
Two volumes of T.S. Eliot's letters elucidate how the momentous achievements of his art were determined by moments of awful daring.
Uncertainty and Anxiety: On Khrushchev’s Thaw
Why did different segments of the Soviet population experience Khrushchev’s reforms in radically different ways?
Shelf Life: On Socrates
Bettany Hughes's biography of Socrates is a book that Socrates himself, on a mean day, would have torn to shreds.
Break Their Hearts: On Chris Bachelder
In his novel Abbott Awaits, Chris Bachelder employs his comic wackiness to great effect.
