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Regulations Are Killed, and Kids Die

Under pressure, the Obama administration withdrew rules barring young laborers from dangerous work—a decision with grave consequences for several families.

Mariya Strauss

Why Are Children Working in American Tobacco Fields?

Young farm workers are falling ill from “green tobacco sickness” while the industry denies it and government lets it happen.

Gabriel Thompson

JFK: ‘The Light of All His Lost Days’

Wendell Berry

Mistakes Were Made

Tom Tomorrow

The Progressive Electoral Wave of 2013

The big story this November is a cross-country rejection of austerity and inequality and support for social justice.

The Editors

Child Labor in the USA

The country must find the political will to end this national disgrace.

The Editors

Time to End the Spying Game

Americans are justifiably upset about the NSA’s sweeping domestic surveillance. But we should be just as concerned about spying on foreigners.

David Cole

‘We Had One Enemy; Now We Have Three’—A Conversation With Malalai Joya of Afghanistan

US forces used the plight of Afghan women to justify war—but twelve years later, women are still suffering.

Dani McClain

Village People

Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s Double Down entertains, but its contempt for liberalism shows on almost every page.

Eric Alterman

The Myth of the Child-Stealing Roma

Europe’s panic is about race and class, not child abduction.

Gary Younge

Rand Paul Plagiarism Revealed

Calvin Trillin

The Man Who Knew Almost Everything

Inside the great social historian Eric Hobsbawm there was an aesthete waiting to come out.

Ramachandra Guha

Behind the Storm

Was World War I the outcome of elite machinations?

Tara Zahra

Roman Holidays

Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty; Alexander Sokurov’s Faust; Wladyslaw Pasikowski’s Aftermath

Stuart Klawans

Puzzle No. 3303

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

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto