Culture

Lesson Learned Lesson Learned

Just pay your taxes.

Feb 10, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Angry America and the Bailout Angry America and the Bailout

As the bailout state goes into overdrive, popular anger at the lords of Wall Street is raging. In 1929, that anger was harnessed to result in huge change. Is the same change possib...

Feb 10, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Steve Fraser

Reid and Pelosi Get Spoofed Reid and Pelosi Get Spoofed

Fred Armisen and Kristen Wiig play Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, while making the point that the Democrats are the ones in charge.

Feb 9, 2009 / Saturday Night Live

Slide Show: Waltz With Bashir, Part 2 Slide Show: Waltz With Bashir, Part 2

Images from the graphic novel about the 1982 Lebanon War.

Feb 6, 2009 / Photo Essay / The Nation

‘Retire Bush’ Contest Winner ‘Retire Bush’ Contest Winner

The prize, an original drawing by Edward Sorel, is awarded to Kristen Wack. Here is what she thinks Bush should do in retirement, along with some other ideas.

Feb 4, 2009 / The Editors

Mail Matters Mail Matters

Will the Obama administration reaffirm the civic mandate of the Postal Service that was damaged during the Bush years?

Feb 4, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Richard R. John

Crash Landings: Paul Krugman’s Depression Economics Crash Landings: Paul Krugman’s Depression Economics

Reviewing Paul Krugman's visionary book The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008.

Feb 4, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Bernard Avishai

Happy Thoughts!: The Poetry of Kevin Davies Happy Thoughts!: The Poetry of Kevin Davies

Poet Kevin Davies asks: are you better off than you were 13,000 years ago?

Feb 4, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Jordan Davis

Waste Management Waste Management

Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah, plus The Class and Coraline.

Feb 4, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Dust in a Word Dust in a Word

We go in and out of doors that's who we are next question? What rules? I never understood just what or what not The plan is the mind whose hand how far And so more than you know than you'll ever

Feb 4, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Clark Coolidge

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