May 23, 2011

In the Magazine

Cover: Cover design by Milton Glaser Incorporated

Browse Selections From Recent Years

2013

Jun 10

Title: June 10-17, 2013
Jun 03

Title: June 3, 2013
May 27

Title: May 27, 2013
May 20

Title: May 20, 2013
May 13

Title: May 13, 2013
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Title: May 6, 2013
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Title: April 29, 2013
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Title: April 22, 2013
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Title: April 15, 2013
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Title: April 8, 2013
Apr 01

Title: April 1, 2013
Mar 25

Title: March 25, 2013
Mar 11

Title: March 11-18, 2013
Mar 04

Title: March 4, 2013
Feb 25

Title: February 25, 2013
Feb 18

Title: February 18, 2013
Feb 11

Title: February 11, 2013
Feb 04

Title: February 4, 2013
Jan 28

Title: January 28, 2013
Jan 21

Title: January 21, 2013
Jan 07

Title: January 7-14, 2013

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2003

Dawn Paley on drug cartels in Mexico, Barry Schwabsky on modernism, and a poem by Karen Solie

Letters

Our Readers

After Osama bin Laden

The purpose of terrorism is to provoke an irrational response that makes a nation less secure and less free. In the wake of 9/11, America became that place. Can we change course?

The Editors

After Osama bin Laden's Death, an End to 'Bad Guys'

It's time to banish our dangerously-simplified us-versus-them mentality and recognize the world as it is: shot through with suffering and complexity.

Christopher Hayes

Noted.

Jeff Biggers on student protests in Arizona, John Nichols on Canada's New Democratic Party, and Kate Murphy on FAIR's twenty-fifth anniversary.

Osama's Assassins

Meet the Special Operations unit that killed Osama bin Laden.

Jeremy Scahill

Deadline Poet

Osama bin Laden Has Been Killed

Calvin Trillin

Diary of a Mad Law Professor

Gender Trouble

Transgender people face assaults that run the gamut from physical to emotional. It's past time to resolve our society's discomfort with those outside the gender binary.

Patricia J. Williams

The Liberal Media

Bin Gotten

The killing of Osama bin Laden was a just and necessary undertaking, but it should not be an occasion for joy.

Eric Alterman

Egypt After Mubarak

On campuses, in syndicates and even inside the Muslim Brotherhood—the revolution lives on.

Paul Amar

From Two Breadwinners to One

Middle-class dreams have been deferred as the recession shrinks the two-income family.

Louis Uchitelle

Off the Map in Mexico

In the wake of a militarized drug war, the power of cartels is more pervasive than ever.

Dawn Paley

Can Sandy Pope Revive the Teamsters?

Concessionary contracts and lingering corruption have sapped the once-mighty union.

Ari Paul

Book

Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education

The exploitation of contingent labor, a shrinking middle class, administrative elephantiasis: the turmoil in academia is a microcosm of American society as a whole.

William Deresiewicz

Ode

Karen Solie

Art

Margins of Modernism: A New Historicism in Art

In the paintings of Silke Otto-Knapp and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, there's an unending entanglement, and dialogue, between the present and the past.

Barry Schwabsky

Puzzle No. 1631

This puzzle originally appeared in the May 8, 1976, issue.

Frank W. Lewis