As Beltway pundits were captivated by Woodward’s whining over an imaginary threat, the Obama administration was delivering on its real threats to Manning.
Section 5 is as necessary today as it was in 1965, when Alabama state troopers beat freedom marchers in Selma.
Roane Carey on the Supreme Court and surveillance, John Nichols on the FCC and dark money, Catherine Defontaine on same-sex marriage in France, the editors on Jeremy Scahill’s Donald Windham–Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize
It’s because they are so beholden to their big-money contributors that they can’t fight the GOP even on issues that they know have overwhelming public support.
Feminists were quick—too quick—to question the Facebook COO's motives for writing Lean In, her self-help manifesto.
As the US withdrawal looms, women’s rights advocates plan to carry on their fierce, lonely fight.
The government says he is a terrorist. But his conversations with undercover police tell a different story.
How many dysfunctional election cycles are we going to endure before we accept the necessity of this reform?
The heat is on big banks and CEOs as labor and community activists band together.
The soul-destroying weariness in A.B. Yehoshua’s stories seems as old as time itself—and unique to contemporary Israel.
Even when painting is abstract, it never ceases to be concerned with decoration.
Frustrated, stubborn, committed to bad science, was Louis Agassiz anything other than a laughingstock?
Robert Burley’s The Disappearance of Darkness, Harvey Wang’s From Darkroom to Daylight.
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.


