Chicken Wire and Telephone Calls: On Robert Caro’s LBJ Chicken Wire and Telephone Calls: On Robert Caro’s LBJ
In The Passage of Power, Robert Caro shows that LBJ’s brilliance as a politician lay not in his idealism but his opportunism.
Nov 20, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Meaney
Worker Group Alleges Walmart ‘Told Store-Level Management to Threaten Workers’ About Strikes Worker Group Alleges Walmart ‘Told Store-Level Management to Threaten Workers’ About Strikes
As Black Friday approaches, workers report “captive audience” meetings designed to discourage strikes.
Nov 20, 2012 / Josh Eidelson
Hidden Bird Hidden Bird
Song birds enter the morning the pre-dawn before the fires, you know, when the night floats away like vapor on a lake, or like kisses in the woods. Songs that even creation might not remember. Continuous, threaded, as if a cherry pit were stuck in the throat to produce the trumpet of the branches. So varies, yet never, changing through all the days, since reptiles fell to earth. I give up the reason for the sound I give up the creature of sound and the creator of the creatures and of us and of dawn and air and of vacuum and human inhumanity. I give up the song. I give up the place
Nov 20, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Joseph Ceravolo
I’m Nobody, Who Are You? On Zadie Smith’s ‘NW’ I’m Nobody, Who Are You? On Zadie Smith’s ‘NW’
If you get to the top, only to find that the voice hounding you with charges of inauthenticity is your own, what then?
Nov 20, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Alexandra Schwartz
Puzzle No. 3262 Puzzle No. 3262
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Nov 20, 2012 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Harvard Students Vote 72 Percent Support for Fossil Fuel Divestment Harvard Students Vote 72 Percent Support for Fossil Fuel Divestment
The vote made Harvard College the first school in the nation to pass a student referendum in support of fossil fuel divestment.
Nov 20, 2012 / StudentNation / Alli Welton
It’s Time to End the War on Drugs It’s Time to End the War on Drugs
The trillion-dollar crusade isn’t making America drug-free—it’s making us the world's most incarcerated population.
Nov 20, 2012 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Occupy Walmart: Workers Plan Black Friday Protests Occupy Walmart: Workers Plan Black Friday Protests
Occupy Wall Street is showing solidarity with striking Walmart workers.
Nov 20, 2012 / Allison Kilkenny
Supertormenta Sandy: ¿El shock del Pueblo? Supertormenta Sandy: ¿El shock del Pueblo?
Cuando escribí La doctrina del shock estaba documentando crímenes del pasado. La buena noticia es que se trata de un crimen en desarrollo: todavía podemos detenerlo. Aseg...
Nov 20, 2012 / Naomi Klein