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Amid economic stagnation, polls show increasing skepticism about the competence of German elites. Can a resurgent Green Party bring political renewal?

The CIA and me and other adventures in American sports.

By concealing for a near-lifetime that he had served in the Waffen SS, literary giant Günter Grass treated himself with an indulgence he did not hesitate to deem a moral defect in others. And for that, we are all losers.

This article was adapted from The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear (Basic Books, www.theimpossible.org).

Parts of this essay also appeared in You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, in On History and on www.zmag.org.

One of the greatest paradoxes of the modern era is the relationship between science and rationalism.

Suddenly the sky is dark with chickens coming home to roost, and bedtime
reading is Thucydides' account of the disastrous Athenian siege of
Syracuse.

Research assistance provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute.