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Eve Ensler Rising

With a new play, Emotional Creature, and big plans for V-Day 2013, the activist playwright reaches for new heights.

Laura Flanders

Can the Federal Reserve Help Prevent a Second Recession?

Chairman Ben Bernanke, who’s been sounding the alarm, is attacked constantly by the right. He and his allies need support from a mostly silent left.

William Greider

Speak Out to the Federal Reserve!

Progressives falsely assume this mysterious institution is impervious to public pressure. We need to make our voices heard.

William Greider

How to Build a Grassroots Power Base

Social movements must bring the creative energy of protest culture to electoral campaigns.

Norman Solomon

Noted

Allison Kilkenny on Occupy Sandy, Michael Tracey on voting after the hurricane, Betsy Reed on New Hampshire's Maggie Hassan, Sasha Abramsky on the end of “three strikes” in California

Various Contributors

Superstorm Sandy—a People’s Shock?

The recovery could be an opportunity to realign our relationship with the natural world.

Naomi Klein

A Progressive Surge

The “rising American electorate” carried Obama and a strong slate of Democrats to victory.

The Editors

Democracy

Calvin Trillin

The You’re-on-Your-Own Society

In this election, the deepest division was over whether we are all in this together. 

Katha Pollitt

If We Ignore Climate Change, We’re All on a Sinking Ship

If there was ever a response to Mitt Romney’s smug RNC laugh line about climate change—or to Obama’s failure to address it—Hurricane Sandy delivered.

Patricia J. Williams

Eve Ensler Rising

With a new play, Emotional Creature, and big plans for V-Day 2013, the activist playwright reaches for new heights.

Laura Flanders

Can the Federal Reserve Help Prevent a Second Recession?

Chairman Ben Bernanke, who’s been sounding the alarm, is attacked constantly by the right. He and his allies need support from a mostly silent left.

William Greider

A Peculiar Revolt: On Marcus Rediker’s ‘The Amistad Rebellion’

Public sympathies and political outcomes over the Amistad Africans drifted in opposite directions.

Nicholas Guyatt

Totalitarianism, Famine and Us

Have histories of famines caused by totalitarianism become a distraction to the new politics of hunger?

Samuel Moyn

Transmigrations

Tom Tykwer and Lana and Andy Wachowski’s Cloud Atlas, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s The Law in These Parts.

Stuart Klawans

Letters

Teachable moment; lizard brains’ll getcha every time; good deficits, bad deficits; industrial diet; the debates next time

Our Readers

Puzzle No. 3260

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

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto