Battleground 2012: Can Obama Win North Carolina Again? Battleground 2012: Can Obama Win North Carolina Again?
In this crucial swing state, organizers are betting that a strong grassroots ground game can defeat Romney’s Super PAC cash.
Aug 8, 2012 / Feature / Ari Berman
‘President Romney’? ‘President Romney’?
Those two words conjure up a world in which one thing is certain: there will be chaos.
Aug 8, 2012 / Feature / Eric Alterman
How to Launch a Mass Movement for Economic Justice How to Launch a Mass Movement for Economic Justice
Progressive leaders are rolling out a bold plan to push Washington off the austerity path. But can they deliver?
Aug 8, 2012 / Feature / William Greider
Paul Ryan? Seriously? Paul Ryan? Seriously?
Could Mitt Romney really be foolish enough to pick as his running mate a bailout-backing, budget-busting hypocrite whose fiscal fantasies threaten Medicare, Medicaid and Socia...
Aug 8, 2012 / John Nichols
Ohio Early Voting Cutbacks Disenfranchise Minority Voters Ohio Early Voting Cutbacks Disenfranchise Minority Voters
The state's Republicans are limited early voting hours in pro-Obama counties while expanding them in GOP strongholds.
Aug 8, 2012 / Ari Berman
Activists Bring Protest to Saks Fifth Avenue, Yo Soy 132 Does Not Endorse Event Activists Bring Protest to Saks Fifth Avenue, Yo Soy 132 Does Not Endorse Event
Activists bring anti-monopolization protest to Saks Fifth Avenue, Yo Soy 132 does not endorse event.
Aug 8, 2012 / Allison Kilkenny
Can Mike Huckabee Reinvent Conservative Talk Radio? Can Mike Huckabee Reinvent Conservative Talk Radio?
Right-wingers turn to talk radio to stoke their anger. What will they make of the kinder, softer voice of staunch conservatism?
Aug 8, 2012 / Ben Adler
Fatherland: On Héctor Abad Faciolince Fatherland: On Héctor Abad Faciolince
Oblivion re-creates the life of one of the many innocent victims of the Colombian conflict.
Aug 8, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Jorge Volpi
From ‘The Split’ From ‘The Split’
Had you entered the thicket in darkness, had the brambles been swiping your face as you passed, had you been mid-life, not in haze but in crisis, had you no other lens but damage to gaze through, had you—thwacked by branches—entered your true love as your true love cried out with her palm on your face, her heel on the small of your back in the darkness, you might have removed the mask from your visage, the glass from the casement, the scythe from your fist. * We were just two drunk kids parallel parking in the dark, you saying, Are you the one with the low down? Under the burnt-out street lamp us kids. Heron coasted by the house, trailing those long legs. No, never tasted heron meat. Dawn: through the Lincoln Tunnel the mammals and their metal, headlighting 42nd Street. By the way, you weren’t born in Omaha. You said your wife changed her clothes at the wedding site because it was too cold in the car. I heard your anecdote, I learned what was an event to you.
Aug 8, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Susan Wheeler
The Reaches of Stringency: On Philip Larkin The Reaches of Stringency: On Philip Larkin
Self-congratulation, deceptions and the art of failure.
Aug 8, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Michael Wood