What Americans Should Do After Charlie Hebdo What Americans Should Do After Charlie Hebdo
We must resist the push to increase surveillance and repeat the foreign policy mistakes of the past.
Jan 14, 2015 / The Editors
Against Easy Stories Against Easy Stories
Facile explanations for the massacre must be resisted.
Jan 14, 2015 / Laila Lalami
Theater of the Absurd Theater of the Absurd
In the wake of the Paris attacks, moral idiots play their predictable roles.
Jan 14, 2015 / Column / Eric Alterman
Paris Attacks Will Bolster the Right-Wing Front National Paris Attacks Will Bolster the Right-Wing Front National
The sad irony of terrorism is that it sparks a backlash against the very groups it seeks to champion.
Jan 14, 2015 / Column / Gary Younge
Runnabee Reunion Runnabee Reunion
So Huckabee may run, and so may Mitt. And Rick Santorum has expressed disdain For rivals who could take the cuckoo vote. Who’s at the door? Could that be Herman Cain?
Jan 14, 2015 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Poor Guatemalans Are Taking On North American Mining Companies—and Have the Bullet Wounds to Prove It Poor Guatemalans Are Taking On North American Mining Companies—and Have the Bullet Wounds to Prove It
As nonviolent protests have spread throughout the country, the right-wing government and the mines’ security operations have responded with force.
Jan 14, 2015 / Jimmy Tobias
GOP Mega-Donor Sheldon Adelson Funds Mysterious Anti-Iran Pressure Group GOP Mega-Donor Sheldon Adelson Funds Mysterious Anti-Iran Pressure Group
United Against Nuclear Iran collected nearly one-third of its 2013 revenue from the Las Vegas–based casino magnate.
Jan 14, 2015 / Eli Clifton
When It Comes to the GOP’s Race Problem, Scalise Is Just a Sideshow When It Comes to the GOP’s Race Problem, Scalise Is Just a Sideshow
Is it really surprising that a figurehead of the party that seeks to deny healthcare to huge numbers of people of color, deport as many immigrants as possible, and strip away the r...
Jan 14, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter
January 14, 2011: President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali Flees Tunisia, Marking the First Victory of the Arab Spring January 14, 2011: President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali Flees Tunisia, Marking the First Victory of the Arab Spring
In the winter of 2011, a revolution begins across the Arab world when Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali resigns following protests against government abuse and corruption....
Jan 14, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
The Lower Depths The Lower Depths
Damián Szifron’s Wild Tales is a carnival of melancholy, melodrama and the polymorphously perverse.
Jan 14, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans