2005 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 2005 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Anne Winters's The Displaced of Capital, winner of the 2005 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, is a reflective, documentary and visionary volume of poetry inspired by the city of New Yo...
Dec 15, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Robert Pinsky
Middlemarch Middlemarch
The GOP is an object of popular loathing, yet prospects seem dim for ousting it from power. Three new books explain why: Off Center explores the GOP's genius for subverting the mec...
Dec 15, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Eyal Press
A Year of Sweet Victories A Year of Sweet Victories
Among the sweetest victories of 2005: Social Security reform has been blocked, pressure to withdraw from Iraq is growing and progressive activists are making progress on local, sta...
Dec 15, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Sam Graham-Felsen
The Ney Scandal Grows The Ney Scandal Grows
As Justice Department investigators follow the cash flow from lobbyist Jack Abramoff's influence-peddling scandal, the evidence mounts against Ohio Republican Congressman Bob Ney. ...
Dec 15, 2005 / Ari Berman
Gene McCarthy Gene McCarthy
Eugene McCarthy was a pure original, a great and good man, whose fundamental historical achievement was to be the standard-bearer for a moral and philosophical campaign against the...
Dec 15, 2005 / Books & the Arts / George McGovern
New Orleans Blues New Orleans Blues
If New Orleans is to reclaim its greatness, the scope of the solution must match the scope of the problem. The city could become the nation's classroom by re-engineering levees, re...
Dec 15, 2005 / The Editors
The War and the Elections The War and the Elections
The Iraq debate will be a central issue of the 2006 Congressional elections, and there is reason to believe antiwar candidates will prevail. The first step in that process is to en...
Dec 15, 2005 / The Editors
Left to Die Left to Die
If a society is measured by the treatment of its prisoners, we are in deeper trouble in New Orleans than we realize. The biggest prison crisis since Attica is now unfolding in the ...
Dec 15, 2005 / Feature / Billy Sothern
Katrina Lives Katrina Lives
The nation might believe it has moved on from Katrina, from the name so childish and somehow slightly foreign, not Sherry or Ann or Margaret. Moved on from the scenes of dark-s...
Dec 15, 2005 / Feature / Susan Straight
In the Shadow of Disaster In the Shadow of Disaster
Faced with the challenge of rebuilding, New Orleans seems stuck in the mud--not just mired in the muck caking the city but also trapped by centuries of policy mistakes, especially ...
Dec 15, 2005 / Feature / Ari Kelman