Culture

Obama and Wanda Sykes Bring the Laughs Obama and Wanda Sykes Bring the Laughs

The president and comedian Wanda Sykes laugh off some of the recent Republican attacks at the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner

May 11, 2009 / Think Progress

Geithner’s Stressless Stress Tests Geithner’s Stressless Stress Tests

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner reveals the results of the banks' written exams. All nineteen banks passed...the pass/pass test

May 11, 2009 / Saturday Night Live

Reagan Wins: The Hollow Man Reagan Wins: The Hollow Man

Like a veteran door-to-door salesman, Ronald Reagan is a huckster, only instead of vacuum cleaners, he peddles fear--so successfully that he is now president of the United States.

May 6, 2009 / Richard Lingeman

Grace Under Pressure in Harrisburg Grace Under Pressure in Harrisburg

Residents near the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor meet the fallout threat with uncommon grace and even humor.

May 6, 2009 / Feature / Ira D. Rosen

Into the Wardrobe: C.S. Lewis’s Narnia Into the Wardrobe: C.S. Lewis’s Narnia

Laura Miller's study of C.S. Lewis falls short of providing a coherent theory of Narnia's magic.

May 6, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Jordan Davis

Red Harvest: The KGB in America Red Harvest: The KGB in America

A new book on cold war espionage falsely accuses I.F. Stone of being a paid Soviet agent.

May 6, 2009 / Books & the Arts / D.D. Guttenplan

The Going The Going

The cloth edge of certainty has shredded down to this: God and love are real, but very far away. If I go to Istanbul, will I return? That is not one of the permitted questions. When I go to Istanbul, how will I bear to return? I could slip into the small streets that lead away from the souk, then run east to the high plain and the Caucasus-- It's all alone, the returning, the going. The cloth, a soft holland whose blocks of blue and lemon once cheered me in a skirt, now dries dishes. God and love are very far away, farther even than the mountains in the east.

May 6, 2009 / Books & the Arts / April Bernard

WWII: The United States and the War WWII: The United States and the War

World War II breaks out in Europe, but The Nation (getting it wrong) says it presents no threat to the US, and we will not join the fighting.

May 5, 2009 / Feature / Oswald Garrison Villard

Lessons From the Titanic Lessons From the Titanic

The terrible tragedy of the Titanic was entirely preventable.

May 5, 2009 / The Editors

The End of Herbert Hoover The End of Herbert Hoover

Franklin Roosevelt is elected on the promise of a new deal, something the country needs desperately.

May 5, 2009 / The Editors

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