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Mitt Romney’s Bailout Bonanza

How Mitt and Ann made millions—and Mitt’s hedge fund donors made billions—from the auto-industry rescue that he condemned.

Greg Palast

Mr. Singer and Mr. Ryan

Greg Palast

Election 2012 and the Missing Millennials

Young voters gave Obama a decisive win in 2008. Four years later, the love affair is on the rocks.

Zoë Carpenter

Hershey’s Charity for Children Became GOP Slush Fund

A new attorney general in Pennsylvania could launch a real investigation into the diversion of charitable resources to luxury golf and Republican politics.

F. Frederic Fouad

The NYPD Caught on Tape

While Mayor Bloomberg and Ray Kelly defend stop-and-frisk, a damning video is fueling the fight for police accountability in New York City.

The Editors

Walmart Workers Walk Out

In the latest action against the union-busting low-wage retailer, labor organizers may have finally found a strategy that works.

Liza Featherstone

Noted

Bill Baker and Evan Leatherwood on Romney's assault on PBS; Christie Thompson on juveniles in solitary confinement

Various Contributors

The Election Protection Coalition Gears Up for Battle

It will be resisting not only voter-suppression laws in key swing states but also harassment from the Tea Party group True the Vote.

Ari Berman

Why Should the Left Support Obama?

I wish, just once, an endorsement of a Democratic presidential candidate would mull over some serious structural issues that are at stake.

Doug Henwood

A Simple Guide to Every Single Republican Tax Proposal

Calvin Trillin

All the (Political) World’s a Stage

After the first presidential debate, the media follow-up focused almost exclusively on its theatrics and the implications for the “horse race.”

Eric Alterman

What Difference Would Obama’s Re-Election Make to Black Americans?

The impact of an Obama presidency is better answered by partisanship than race—but race still matters.

Melissa Harris-Perry

After the Euphoria: On the Arab Uprisings

What are the new rules of the political game in the Middle East? Nobody knows, but Marc Lynch’s The Arab Uprising is a useful guide.

Patrick Cockburn

What Goes With What: On Richard Tuttle

Richard Tuttle’s sculpture seems to proclaim “No spirit but in things.”

 

Barry Schwabsky

Madrigal

Charles North

Uninvisible: On Dorothy B. Hughes

In The Expendable Man, the story of an innocent under suspicion is given a racial twist.

Charles Taylor

Breather

Charles North

Letters

The Corporate Court, the Chicago teachers’ strike, No Child Left Behind…

Our Readers

Puzzle No. 3257

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

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto