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Beyond Austerity

Deficit mania is built on a series of destructive neoliberal myths.

William Mitchell

Sound Bites for a Sick Britain

David Cameron’s coalition is prescribing the economic policy equivalent of leeches.

Aditya Chakrabortty

Cutbacks Come to Liverpool

The government is making life immeasurably harder for some of the country’s poorest people.

Jennifer O’Mahony

Remembering the Triangle Fire

After 100 years, the tragedy still inspires outrage and grief. Why does it have a hold on us?

Joshua Freeman

The Next Big Housing Crisis?

Second-lien debt could be a greater threat to bank solvency than the subprime disaster of 2008.

Alex Ulam

We Are All Wisconsinites Now

How can the pro-worker movement born in the streets of Madison be nurtured into a national force?

The Editors

Noted.

John Nichols on the smear campaign against NPR, Kate Murphy on fairly taxing the richest Americans and Molly O’Toole on southern Arizona’s  movement for secession—from Arizona

Various Contributors

Libya and the Dilemma of Intervention

No-fly zones have, at best, a mixed record as a form of humanitarian intervention, and instituting one over Libya will do little to halt Qaddafi’s military advantages.

The Editors

Hiroshima to Fukushima

The problem with mankind wielding nuclear power isn’t about backup generators or safety rules—it’s our essential human fallibility.

Jonathan Schell

A Warning From Japan

The message out of Fukushima is clear: our own fleet of leaky old nuclear plants should be decommissioned now.

Christian Parenti

From Chernobyl to Fukushima: What Will It Take?

There are no effective “safeguards” against nuclear disasters, and Japan’s crisis is only the latest display of the overwhelming risks involved in splitting atoms for energy.

Alexander Cockburn

A Bare-Bones Analysis of Tim Pawlenty’s Candidacy

Calvin Trillin

Hiroshima to Fukushima

The problem with mankind wielding nuclear power isn’t about backup generators or safety rules—it’s our essential human fallibility.

Jonathan Schell

Remembering the Triangle Fire

After 100 years, the tragedy still inspires outrage and grief. Why does it have a hold on us?

Joshua Freeman

My Monster, My Self: On Nicholas Carr and William Powers

With our tiny screens and cellphones, we have become prosthetic gods, the whole world in our handhelds. Are we not also monsters?

Gary Greenberg

A Minor Exception: On W.C. Minor and Noah Webster

The career of W.C. Minor is a reminder that the legacy of Yale’s lexicographers is no less noteworthy than that of its deconstructionists.

Joshua Kendall

As If: On Barbie Zelizer

Most journalists think that words are more important than images. Barbie Zelizer thinks they are wrong.

Victor Navasky

Letters

Our Readers and Charles Taylor

Puzzle No. 1624

From the March 20, 1976, issue. Be sure to vote in our contest to pick the new Nation puzzle­meister!

Frank W. Lewis