Calvin Trillin
Take our mayor, please.
Calvin Trillin
Take our mayor, please.
Frank W. Lewis
Our Readers, William Greider & James Longenbach
Liza Featherstone As the cost of college hits the stratosphere, students are organizing to bring it down to earth.
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Several new histories trace Cuba's exotic and reviled place in the American political imagination.
The Editors
In a slipping economy, the debt burden for students is crippling. Obama's modest but elegant plan is a step in the right direction.
The Colbert Report Ice Cream and puppies don't travel well to Iraq but Stephen Colbert does on his week-long USO broadcast.
Kameelah Rasheed Instead of magic role models we need long-term education investment.
Eliseo Diego
Shelley Smithson Navajos say "No!" as the return of uranium mining threatens to despoil their lands and health.
Alexander Cockburn
Connecting the dots between North Korea and the United States.
Juan Cole In the wake of a charismatic speech, it's clear that a substantial majority of the world's 1.5 billion Muslims are rooting for him.
YouTube In this teaser for his upcoming new film, Michael Moore asks us to please help our fellow (corporate) Americans.
Geoffrey Dobbins You voted. Now what? Willis hopes more musically inclined activists will consider community development as a career option.
Michael Pertschuk
Bolstered by Congressional support, the FTC flexes its muscles.
Maurice Isserman A hundred ways of looking at Che Guevara.
Katha Pollitt The abortion provider and hero knew enough to trust women. The same can't be said for the male pundits who are dominating the debate.
The Editors
An oil giant settles in human rights lawsuit; Virginia's Mr. Anonymous wins primary; American reporters convicted in North Korea; Doris Shaffer remembered.
Brave New Films We're on the verge of a huge victory for the antiwar movement. We are just three votes short of defeating the war supplemental bill in Congress.
Maria Margaronis
In the European parliamentary elections, the center-right has won at the expense of social democrats.
Neve Gordon Pushed by Obama to dismantle illegal settlements, Netanyahu manipulates the media to show Israel will end up in a civil war if the White House stands firm.
Dave Zirin Michael Vick and Maurice Clarett deserve a second chance to play in the NFL--not because they are innocent, but because the system itself is so profoundly guilty.
Ange Mlinko Is the history of English really the history of adult learners of a second language?
GRIT TV What role can the federal government play in diminishing hate crimes and attacks on immigrants?
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Michael T. Klare For the first time, the US Energy Department has conceded that peak oil is the new norm.
Dave Zirin Protests in Iran have little in common with soccer riots, contrary to what Ahmadinejad would have us believe. They are far more serious--and more diverse.
MSNBC The Nation's Ari Melber on how the media has fused real-time lifestyle coverage with the star power of a true celebrity politician.
Jordan Stancil What's behind the recent success of Hungary's right-wing political party?
Robert Scheer Unveiling new proposals to regulate Wall Street, Geithner and Summers now condemn the shenanigans they once abetted and celebrated.
Laila Lalami Governor Schwarzenegger's proposed budget cuts would be an unmitigated disaster for California's public universities.
Kelly Hearn The recent coal ash spill in Tennessee reveals the toxic fallacy that states should regulate industrial waste.
Frederika Randall Silvio Berlusconi's meeting with Barack Obama today comes at a time when Italy's reckless ruler's grip on power may be slipping.
Tom Engelhardt Barack Obama may turn out to be the best pure politician we've seen since Ronald Reagan, but he's also head honcho for the globe's single great garrison state that lives off war and the preparations for future war.
Tom Hayden With the election of Mauricio Funes, El Salvador has its first elected progressive government in 188 years. How will it face the nation's many challenges?
Jacqueline Stevens You don't need to go to Iran or North Korea to find secret courts. Try attending a US immigration hearing.
John Dugard There is now sufficient evidence to charge Israel with war crimes for its actions in Gaza. Why is Obama silent?