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Cuomo vs. Cuomo

Can he make New York the “progressive capital of the nation”—by empowering Republicans?

Eric Alterman

Are Memphis Prosecutors Trying to Send an Innocent Man Back to Death Row?

Witnesses say they saw Timothy McKinney shoot an off-duty police officer in 1997. But their stories have changed—and the DA’s office has been caught hiding evidence in death penalty trials.

Liliana Segura

Meet the New Left: Small-Business Owners

Surveys demonstrate remarkably progressive attitudes on everything from taxation to regulation to the environment.

William Greider

How to Fight Corporate Welfare

We need a Chamber of Progress, made up of all the green and progressive businesses, to fight the predator state that subsidizes large corporations.

Jamie Raskin

Will California’s Cap and Trade Be Fair?

Allowing polluters to trade carbon could keep poor Californians breathing unhealthy air.

Madeline Ostrander

The American Legacy in Iraq

On the tenth anniversary of the US invasion, the country is mired in a permanent crisis of sectarian violence, pervasive corruption and broken infrastructure.

Patrick Cockburn

New Pope, Old Papacy

There is nothing in Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio’s record to suggest that he will reform the Catholic Church.

Norman Birnbaum

Noted

Max Strasser reports on the Robin Hood Tax in the UK and Andrew Bard Epstein on the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign, and the editors congratulate Chris Hayes

Various Contributors

LA’s Homeless Vets

It seems unbelievable, but land dedicated to the VA for housing veterans has been denied to them—and LA has more homeless vets than any city in America.

Jon Wiener

‘Gideon v. Wainwright’, Fifty Years Later

In its historic decision, the Supreme Court ruled that poor people have a right to a lawyer. But today, our system of indigent defense is shameful.

Stephen B. Bright and Sia M. Sanneh

What the UN Owes Haiti

Despite the fact that its "peacekeepers" brought cholera to Haiti, the UN is refusing to fund obvious solutions.

Isabeau Doucet

One Issue That Seems to Be Getting Bipartisan Support in the Senate

Calvin Trillin

Kimani Gray: Guilty Until Proven Innocent

News stories that followed the NYPD’s killing of a 16-year-old Brooklyn boy show how we criminalize people based on race and geography.

Patricia J. Williams

Unreal Choices: On The Feminine Mystique

For Betty Friedan, feminism was humanism: a question of growth, maturation and identity.

Julia M. Klein

Neighborhood

Judith Harris

The Strange Arcane: On George Saunders

In the short stories of Tenth of December, the impression of chaos belies a careful design.

Aaron Thier

Shelf Life

Barry Schwabsky

The Quarrels of Others: On Anti-Semitism

With Anti-Judaism, David Nirenberg has recast the debate about the origins and nature of anti-Semitism in Western thought.

R.I. Moore

Exchange: Does America Stand for Drones?

Our Readers and David Cole

Puzzle No. 3276

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

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto