Politics

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

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