The United States Didn’t Just Help Topple Allende—We Trained the Economists, Too The United States Didn’t Just Help Topple Allende—We Trained the Economists, Too
A new documentary, Chicago Boys, looks at the Chilean economists who brought neoliberalism from the halls of Chicago to the policies of Latin America.
Nov 16, 2015 / Greg Grandin
Hillary Clinton’s Best Asset Is Also Her Greatest Liability Hillary Clinton’s Best Asset Is Also Her Greatest Liability
Her answers at the Des Moines debate revealed a fluency with complicated global challenges. But can Democrats forgive her Iraq vote?
Nov 16, 2015 / Joan Walsh
The University of North Carolina’s New President Should Scare Anyone Who Cares About Higher Ed The University of North Carolina’s New President Should Scare Anyone Who Cares About Higher Ed
Margaret Spellings is a Karl Rove protégé who calls students “customers,” and now she’s in charge of the state’s prestigious public university system.
Nov 16, 2015 / StudentNation / Zoë Carpenter
November 16, 1938: Dr. Albert Hofmann Synthesizes LSD for the First Time November 16, 1938: Dr. Albert Hofmann Synthesizes LSD for the First Time
“Ultimately, either you have or haven't taken a trip yourself.”
Nov 16, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
‘Ne Vous Laissez Pas Manipuler’ AKA #StayWoke ‘Ne Vous Laissez Pas Manipuler’ AKA #StayWoke
To “stay woke” in the aftermath of the Paris attacks is an act of conscious resistance against an ugly tide.
Nov 15, 2015 / Dave Zirin
To Defeat ISIS, We Must Call Both Western and Muslim Leaders to Account To Defeat ISIS, We Must Call Both Western and Muslim Leaders to Account
And that includes the Saudi kings whose funding of Wahhabi doctrine gave rise to the scourge of Islamic extremism.
Nov 15, 2015 / Laila Lalami
France Should Stop Listening to Saudi Arabia on Syria France Should Stop Listening to Saudi Arabia on Syria
ISIS is the most urgent threat to the West stemming from the Syrian war and must be destroyed. Assad’s murderous dictatorship can be dealt with next.
Nov 15, 2015 / Juan Cole
The Second Democratic Debate Was a Great Night for Republicans The Second Democratic Debate Was a Great Night for Republicans
The “I’m not that much of a Socialist compared to Eisenhower” debate reminded America of the GOP that was.
Nov 15, 2015 / John Nichols
November 15, 1959: The Clutter Family Is Murdered in Holcomb, Kansas, Later the Subject of Truman Capote’s ‘In Cold Blood’ November 15, 1959: The Clutter Family Is Murdered in Holcomb, Kansas, Later the Subject of Truman Capote’s ‘In Cold Blood’
“It turns out that what we are really witnessing is a kind of morality play: the conversion of Truman Capote.”
Nov 15, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
Why Does Ta-Nehisi Coates Say Less Than He Knows? Why Does Ta-Nehisi Coates Say Less Than He Knows?
The journalist’s best-selling memoir offers eloquent testimony to the vulnerability of black life, but it surrenders too much to despair.
Nov 15, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Jesse McCarthy