Bombing Hasn’t Worked. Bombing Won’t Work. And Yet, We Will Bomb Bombing Hasn’t Worked. Bombing Won’t Work. And Yet, We Will Bomb
The UK is grasping again for an old, failed tactic, thanks to the nationalist impulse to act fast after Paris.
Dec 3, 2015 / Column / Gary Younge
Does It Matter if the Justice Department Calls Anti-Abortion Violence ‘Domestic Terrorism’? Does It Matter if the Justice Department Calls Anti-Abortion Violence ‘Domestic Terrorism’?
Pro-choice groups are pressing the Obama administration to ratchet up its response to a surge in attacks and threats to abortion providers.
Dec 3, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter
Start Making Sense: Naomi Klein on the Necessity of the Climate Protests in Paris Start Making Sense: Naomi Klein on the Necessity of the Climate Protests in Paris
On this week’s podcast, Naomi Klein on the Shock Doctrine and the Paris climate protests, Katha Pollitt on Europe’s refugee crisis, Eric Foner on Woodrow Wilson’s racism, and Joan ...
Dec 3, 2015 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Dropout Remorse Dropout Remorse
So what was so bad about Walker? Was Perry that god-awful slow? And though Bobby Jindal Could see his polls dwindle, Just why did he give up and go? Yes, once I disdained all these…
Dec 3, 2015 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Happy Birthday, ‘National Review’! Too Bad You Haven’t Grown Any Wiser With Age. Happy Birthday, ‘National Review’! Too Bad You Haven’t Grown Any Wiser With Age.
The GOP’s reliable source of awful ideas celebrates 60 years of being wrong.
Dec 3, 2015 / Column / Eric Alterman
Asking for a Friend: I’m in Love With a Republican—What Do I Do? Asking for a Friend: I’m in Love With a Republican—What Do I Do?
Liza answers a reader in love, and another who wants to blow up the system that screwed him over.
Dec 3, 2015 / Liza Featherstone
An Opera of Permanent Catastrophe, and of Hope An Opera of Permanent Catastrophe, and of Hope
A new production of Alban Berg’s Lulu reveals the explosive powers still manifest in modern art.
Dec 3, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Peter E. Gordon
Puzzle No. 3383 Puzzle No. 3383
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Lead the way to overcome depression? (3,4) 5 Detroit athlete, gaining height, gets increasingly tense (7) 9 With…
Dec 3, 2015 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
What Happens to the Right of Public Assembly in the Absence of Public Space? What Happens to the Right of Public Assembly in the Absence of Public Space?
The mentality of traffic engineering cripples mass transit, and free speech, in New York City.
Dec 3, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Michael Sorkin
Rocky Without Reaganism Rocky Without Reaganism
Creed offers a surprisingly daring depiction of the Rocky universe as seen from the other side of the tracks.
Dec 3, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans