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Photos of movement, leaders, Ti-Grace Atkinson, Betty Friedan, Marlene Dixon
Unreal Choices: On The Feminine Mystique (Books & Arts, Feminism, Books and Ideas, Gender Issues, Cultural Criticism and Analysis, Non-fiction)

For Betty Friedan, feminism was humanism: a question of growth, maturation and identity.

Julia M. Klein
Neighborhood (Books & Arts, Poetry)
Judith Harris
Photo of George Saunders
The Strange Arcane: On George Saunders (Books & Arts, Class, Books and Ideas, Fiction, Humor, Literature)

In the short stories of Tenth of December, the impression of chaos belies a careful design.

Aaron Thier
Picture of a copy of G.L. Bernini’s Louis XIV Equestrian
Shelf Life (Books & Arts, Biography, Fine Art, Shelf Life, Books and the Arts)
Barry Schwabsky
The Quarrels of Others: On Anti-Semitism (Books & Arts, Religion, History, Non-fiction)

With Anti-Judaism, David Nirenberg has recast the debate about the origins and nature of anti-Semitism in Western thought.

R.I. Moore
Kim Jong-un, Dictator of North Korea and BFF of Dennis Rodman, Threatens to Use Nuclear Weapons Against the United States (Humor)
Calvin Trillin
The Rehabilitation of Elliott Abrams (Foreign Policy, History)
Eric Alterman
Greece Ongoing Crisis Picture
No Exit? Greece's Ongoing Crisis (Books & Arts, Books and Ideas, Disaster Capitalism, Economics, Economic Development, Economic Policy, History, Non-fiction, Economy)

How do Greece’s economists and writers explain its social predicament?

Mark Mazower
What Did Clausen See (Poems)
Grzegorz Wróblewski
Armenian genocide demonstration picture
Two Rights and A Wrong: On Taner Akçam (Books & Arts, Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing, History, Non-fiction, World)

A historian’s view of why political demands, past and present, have weighed on Turkish debates about the Armenian genocide.

Holly Case

Blogs

Gay Baiting Gore Vidal: Politics in 1960
Jon Wiener

During his Congressional run in 1960, the late writer and Nation contributor fired back at a less-than-friendly newspaper publisher.

October 8, 2012
Ralph Nader, 'Lone Ranger,' Rides Again
William Greider

Nader’s The Seventeen Solutions is a subversive primer that should be read in every high school civics class.

October 4, 2012
Dear Hanna Rosin: I'm Doing Fine! Love, the Patriarchy
Bryce Covert

The End of Men’s prediction of an American matriarchy fails to define what that would actually entail.

October 2, 2012
Bob Dylan’s 'Tempest': A Q&A with Greil Marcus
Jon Wiener

The long-time Dylan historian sounds off on the Bard’s thirty-fifth studio album.

October 2, 2012
White House Cover-Up: When Truman Censored the First Hollywood Movie on the Atomic Bomb
Greg Mitchell

Sixty-seven years later, a look at one of the great, unknown tales of Hollywood "censorship."

September 27, 2012
Brooklyn Book Festival, 2012
Peter Rothberg

This Sunday's Brooklyn Book Festival is one of the country's most celebrated celebrations of books, reading and independent publishing.

September 19, 2012
Beyond Obama: Could a True Socialist Actually Gain Power in America? How One Almost Did
Greg Mitchell

Here’s how it almost once happened here.

September 15, 2012
'Poem about My Rights': Todd Akin, Meet June Jordan
Laura Flanders

Todd Akin, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan all have me thinking of June Jordan’s great “Poem about My Rights.”

August 22, 2012
What’s Ahead in the 'Voting Wars'? Certainly Not Peace
Voting Rights Watch

A conversation with election law expert Richard Hasen on the true scope of voter fraud, the power of the ACORN myth and John Roberts’s scary interest in the Voting Rights Act.

 

August 17, 2012
Bill Moyers: For Campaign Cash, TV Gives Back Nothing
Laura Flanders

The campaign season earns local television stations enormous sums of money. What should they give back?

August 14, 2012
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