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How the Creative Response of Artists and Activists Can Transform the World

It's the antidote to the consumerism and cynicism that define our culture.

Antonino D’Ambrosio

Unacknowledged Legislators?

Artists can open a space of possibility in politics, but their role is problematic—and not always positive.

Hari Kunzru

Resistance Through Poetry

It’s how I came to understand that the world—and all oppression—is connected.

Staceyann Chin

Jail Guitar Doors

By providing free instruments, we use music to help rehabilitate prison inmates.

Billy Bragg

The Creative Electoral Response

I refused to run a negative campaign for New York City Council, focusing instead on community and democratic empowerment.

Yetta Kurland

Reflections on Mortality From a Land of Ice and Snow

There is something eerily disquieting about Antarctica, where humanity isn’t capable of enduring long.

DJ Spooky

How the Study of History Can Contribute to Global Citizenship

We can truly know only that which we have made: human history.

Stanislao G. Pugliese

Homage to a Creative Elder

My Tante Rezia was a patron of the arts, one of those silent supporters that every family, every artist, has and needs but rarely acknowledges.

Edwidge Danticat

Letter From Haiti: Life in the Ruins

Three years after the earthquake, 350,000 are still living in refugee camps, while millions in aid money is lavished on a tourist hotel.

Amy Wilentz

An Alternative to Austerity

In the looming debt-ceiling fight, progressives must make the case for protecting social programs, raising revenues and cutting the Pentagon budget.

The Editors

Why Has Obama Pardoned So Few Prisoners?

Cases like that of Weldon Angelos, who was given a fifty-five-year sentence for selling marijuana, cry out for mercy. But calls for clemency have fallen on deaf ears.

Sasha Abramsky

Noted

Christie Thompson on the Wilmington Ten, Greg Mitchell on Al Jazeera America, Aura Bogado on Idle No More, John Nichols on Gerda Lerner

Various Contributors

The Triumph of the Far Right in Israel

The upcoming Knesset elections mark the culmination of settler dominance over the country's politics.

Noam Sheizaf

The Nomination of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense

Calvin Trillin

Hooray for Hagel

Rarely has the McCarthyite smear of “anti-Semitism” been revealed to be so empty as in the case of Obama’s DoD nominee.

Eric Alterman

Suffer the Children

Gary Younge

How the Creative Response of Artists and Activists Can Transform the World

It's the antidote to the consumerism and cynicism that define our culture.

Antonino D’Ambrosio

Unacknowledged Legislators?

Artists can open a space of possibility in politics, but their role is problematic—and not always positive.

Hari Kunzru

Resistance Through Poetry

It’s how I came to understand that the world—and all oppression—is connected.

Staceyann Chin

Jail Guitar Doors

By providing free instruments, we use music to help rehabilitate prison inmates.

Billy Bragg

How the Study of History Can Contribute to Global Citizenship

We can truly know only that which we have made: human history.

Stanislao G. Pugliese

Homage to a Creative Elder

My Tante Rezia was a patron of the arts, one of those silent supporters that every family, every artist, has and needs but rarely acknowledges.

Edwidge Danticat

Irritable Reachings: On John Keats

A new biography of John Keats is no match for Keats’s poetic inventions.

James Longenbach

No Man Is an Island: Fiction, Trauma, War

How Argentine fiction about the Malvinas War conspires in a trick of perspective.

Jonathan Blitzer

Waltz Unchained

Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained; Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse

Stuart Klawans

Letters

“Financial, economic, military and political” inertia, fracking, National Socialism, Henry James, the Battle in Seattle

Our Readers and Leo Robson

Puzzle No. 3267

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

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto