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Bill de Blasio Is Just Getting Started

Bill de Blasio Is Just Getting Started Bill de Blasio Is Just Getting Started

The former activist and New York public advocate discusses his first year as mayor.

Jan 7, 2015 / Feature / Eric Alterman

America’s Workplaces Are Hostile to Families

America’s Workplaces Are Hostile to Families America’s Workplaces Are Hostile to Families

To fix social problems, we need to stop looking to marriage, and start creating more equitable public policy.

Jan 7, 2015 / Michelle Chen

How Unstable Is the Saudi Petro-Kingdom?

How Unstable Is the Saudi Petro-Kingdom? How Unstable Is the Saudi Petro-Kingdom?

From plummeting petroleum prices to political unrest, it has been decades since the fortunes of the kingdom were so much in doubt.

Jan 7, 2015 / Juan Cole

Edward Brooke and the Republican Party That Might Have Been

Edward Brooke and the Republican Party That Might Have Been Edward Brooke and the Republican Party That Might Have Been

The late senator, who was once considered a vice presidential prospect, tried to prevent the GOP’s lurch to the right.

Jan 7, 2015 / John Nichols

January 7, 1999: The Impeachment Trial of Bill Clinton Begins

January 7, 1999: The Impeachment Trial of Bill Clinton Begins January 7, 1999: The Impeachment Trial of Bill Clinton Begins

In The Nation Jonathan Schell laid to rest any comparisons between Clinton’s crimes, such as they were, and those of Richard Nixon.

Jan 7, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac

We’ll Need an Economic Program to Make #BlackLivesMatter. Here Are Three Ideas.

We’ll Need an Economic Program to Make #BlackLivesMatter. Here Are Three Ideas. We’ll Need an Economic Program to Make #BlackLivesMatter. Here Are Three Ideas.

In a country that has always used race to justify inequality, ending police brutality is just the start.

Jan 7, 2015 / Feature / Jesse A. Myerson and Mychal Denzel Smith

Do You Think Products Made in China Should Be Called ‘US Exports’?

Do You Think Products Made in China Should Be Called ‘US Exports’? Do You Think Products Made in China Should Be Called ‘US Exports’?

If not, we must stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership before it does more damage to our country.

Jan 7, 2015 / Feature / William Greider

Faith and Suspicion: On Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Lila’

Faith and Suspicion: On Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Lila’ Faith and Suspicion: On Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Lila’

The novelist offers an elegant answer to the question, “What is it to be human?”

Jan 7, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Roxana Robinson

A Conversation With Marilynne Robinson

A Conversation With Marilynne Robinson A Conversation With Marilynne Robinson

The novelist talks about liberalism, the language of fiction, and the humanism of John Calvin.

Jan 7, 2015 / Books & the Arts / The Nation

Gunboy Gunboy

killing the child said became like drinking water clean or clean enough though one says that one is part of everything there is a conflict there is a resistance involved this for that that life for this a finger to the lips or to the trigger the revolver is vulgar in the boy’s hands decorated with beads the weapon turns over like a word on the tongue bella bellum the war of all against all the beauty of all against all to emerge from emergency form out of force equal to all those bodies bathed in that free water

Jan 7, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Beth Bachmann

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