Books and Ideas

5 Years Later, ‘Lean In’ Seems Like a Relic from Another Time

5 Years Later, ‘Lean In’ Seems Like a Relic from Another Time 5 Years Later, ‘Lean In’ Seems Like a Relic from Another Time

Sheryl Sandberg preached fitting into the power structure. Instead, women are challenging it.

Mar 21, 2018 / Helaine Olen

Today’s Life and War

Today’s Life and War Today’s Life and War

From above, there are no souls, only bodies, but they are seen as hollow forms, moving the way atoms do in the universe — ​unseen.

Mar 21, 2018 / Dunya Mikhail

Selma and the Unfulfilled Promise of Civil Rights

Selma and the Unfulfilled Promise of Civil Rights Selma and the Unfulfilled Promise of Civil Rights

The city’s 20th-century history not only marked a high point in the civil-rights movement; it also captures why America needs more than sporadic intervention if it is to uproot the...

Mar 21, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Elias Rodriques

A New Picture of Karl Marx

A New Picture of Karl Marx A New Picture of Karl Marx

Any movie about Marx raises questions about its means of production. But maybe it’s time for a good, relatively mainstream film about anticapitalists.

Mar 19, 2018 / Annie Julia Wyman

student walkout capitol

How to Organize to Win How to Organize to Win

Rebuilding the democratic infrastructure is too important to leave up to the consultocracy.

Mar 16, 2018 / Marshall Ganz

Gary Cohn

Gary Cohn, Populist Gary Cohn, Populist

His goal was to make an adjustment in taxes That feathered the nest of the Goldmans and Sachses. His mission accomplished, his White House tour ends With many more millions for him…

Mar 15, 2018 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

Grotesque, Primeval Behemoth Thoroughly Enjoying Trump Chaos Grotesque, Primeval Behemoth Thoroughly Enjoying Trump Chaos

It’s hungry for more.

Mar 14, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow

John Ashbery’s Day Job

John Ashbery’s Day Job John Ashbery’s Day Job

The poet as art critic.

Mar 14, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Shirley Chisholm

Shirley Chisholm Deserves a Great Big Statue Honoring Her in the Capitol Shirley Chisholm Deserves a Great Big Statue Honoring Her in the Capitol

Kamala Harris and Yvette Clarke have a bill that would do just that.

Mar 9, 2018 / John Nichols

Encountering Ghosts in Family Photos, Historical Dolls, and ‘Black Panther’ Encountering Ghosts in Family Photos, Historical Dolls, and ‘Black Panther’

Mythmaking can connect the past to the present, and reveal a promised future.

Mar 9, 2018 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

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