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The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century

The radical ideas of one generation become the common sense of the next. Here, Peter Dreier honors the people who moved progressive ideas in America from the marginal to the mainstream.

Peter Dreier

WikiLeaks and Hacktivist Culture

WikiLeaks is not the one-off creation of a solitary genius, and with or without Julian Assange, it is not going away.

Peter Ludlow

Blackwater’s Black Ops

Internal documents reveal the firm’s clandestine work for multinationals and governments.

Jeremy Scahill

The Teapot Tempest

Democratic candidates can’t just campaign by fear-mongering on the Tea Party. A populist message that emphasizes job creation will speak to Dems and independents who put Obama in the White House.

The Editors

Think, Prey, Vote

The scariest Republicans are not necessarily tea-stained—and other lessons to keep in mind as Election 2010 roars in.

John Nichols

Noted.

Teresa Stack remembers our colleague Gene Case; Esther Kaplan reports on Sarah Shourd’s return home from Iran.

Various Contributors

Labour’s Fraternal Struggle

No candidate for Labour Party leader has offered a challenge to the dominant view of Britain as a society living beyond its means, with the market setting the terms for what’s possible.

D.D. Guttenplan and Maria Margaronis

The Soros Syndrome

George Soros’s gift of $100 million to Human Rights Watch doesn’t come without strings attached.

Alexander Cockburn

Franzenfreude, Continued

Literary taste-making can’t be the one place in America where gendered expectations play no role.

Katha Pollitt

A Summary of What the ‘New York Times’ Discovered About John Boehner’s Ties to Corporate Lobbyists

It really couldn’t be plainer.

Calvin Trillin

A Wink and a Con: On W.L. Gresham

In Nightmare Alley, whoever you are, you can always depend on the cruelty of strangers.

Charles Taylor

Midst

Rae Armantrout

Unsettled: The Great Plains

The myths and misconceptions that distort the beauty and problems of the Plains.

Charles Petersen

A Matter of Memory: On Ingo Schulze

The unvarnished fiction of One More Story explores Germany’s papered-over past.

Noah Isenberg

Letters to the Editor

Our Readers

Puzzle No. 1601

This puzzle originally appeared in the October 4, 1975, issue.

Frank W. Lewis