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Can Podemos Win in Spain?

Just a year after its founding, it’s the country’s leading party.

Sebastiaan Faber and Bécquer Seguín

The Movement to Put a Church in Every School Is Growing

How evangelicals are taking advantage of publicly funded spaces.

Katherine Stewart

The Republican Governors Thank You for Your Donation

Your retirement account is bankrolling politicians to whom you’d never dream of sending a check.

Jamie Raskin

This Is the Key to Recovering Black Wealth in America

America’s giant wealth disparity is driven by a history of racist redlining.

Mike Konczal and Bryce Covert

Snapshot: The Aftermath

Remy de la Mauviniere

What Americans Should Do After Charlie Hebdo

We must resist the push to increase surveillance and repeat the foreign policy mistakes of the past.

The Editors

Against Easy Stories

Facile explanations for the massacre must be resisted.

Laila Lalami

Theater of the Absurd

In the wake of the Paris attacks, moral idiots play their predictable roles.

Eric Alterman

Paris Attacks Will Bolster the Right-Wing Front National

The sad irony of terrorism is that it sparks a backlash against the very groups it seeks to champion.

Gary Younge

Runnabee Reunion

Calvin Trillin

The Lower Depths

Damián Szifron’s Wild Tales is a carnival of melancholy, melodrama and the polymorphously perverse.

Stuart Klawans

Inoculation as Metaphor

Eula Biss’s On Immunity is a slipshod book full of brilliant moments.

Hannah Gold

Speed Kills

Has digital technology destroyed leisure?

Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

Less Is More

The dense details in Berlin’s memorial museums overwhelm the stories they try to tell.

Julia M. Klein

Letters

Mutualize Uber?… what a mensch!… too broad a brush… make ’em care!… nobody does it better…

Our Readers and Barry Schwabsky

Puzzle No. 3351

And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog,Word Salad

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto