Who’s Paying the Pro-War Pundits? Who’s Paying the Pro-War Pundits?

Talking heads like former General Jack Keane are all over the news media fanning fears of IS. Shouldn’t the public know about their links to Pentagon contractors?

Sep 16, 2014 / Lee Fang

Comix Nation Comix Nation

Sep 16, 2014 / Tom Tomorrow

Snapshot: A Hard Rain in a Changing Climate Snapshot: A Hard Rain in a Changing Climate

Residents of Indian-administered Kashmir struggle against a strong current after incessant rains inundated the region, causing the worst flooding in decades. The floods have caused over 500 deaths, and over 500,000 people have needed to be rescued. Another 75,000 people are still waiting to be rescued a week after the flooding began.

Sep 16, 2014 / Dar Yasin

Climate Change Is a People’s Shock Climate Change Is a People’s Shock

What if, instead of accepting a future of climate catastrophe and private profits, we decide to change everything?

Sep 16, 2014 / Naomi Klein

Whatever Happened to Gun Control? Whatever Happened to Gun Control?

The Newtown tragedy was supposed to change everything about gun politics. Why it didn’t—and how reformers might still win.

Sep 16, 2014 / George Zornick

What Is India? What Is India?

Why India’s boom years have been a bust.

Sep 16, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Siddhartha Deb

Gordimer’s Way Gordimer’s Way

The Nobel laureate’s short stories are her lasting legacy to the literary world.

Sep 16, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Tony Eprile

Shelf Life Shelf Life

The secret history of invisible ink.

Sep 16, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Peter C. Baker

Ghosting Around Ghosting Around

In the stories of Kjell Askildsen, all that the men want is to be unseen.

Sep 16, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Thier

Letters Letters

Bread, not bombs… too big to jail… feed the world? first end poverty… patriotic heresy…

Sep 16, 2014 / Our Readers