Comments of the Week: November 11, 2011 Comments of the Week: November 11, 2011
Each week we post a weekly run-down of the best of our reader comments with the hopes of highlighting some of your most valuable insights and encouraging more peopl...
Nov 14, 2011 / Sarah Arnold
Herman Cain and the Politics of Eyeliner Herman Cain and the Politics of Eyeliner
In the right’s cosmology of cosmetics, a woman is damned if she wears makeup and damned if she doesn’t.
Nov 14, 2011 / Leslie Savan
Feminism and the 99 Percent Feminism and the 99 Percent
Takeaways from a discussion on gender and the Occupy movement at Syracuse University.
Nov 14, 2011 / StudentNation / Krystie Yandoli
The World Joe Paterno Made The World Joe Paterno Made
At Penn State, self-pity reigns.
Nov 14, 2011 / Dave Zirin
Will Clarence Thomas Recuse Himself From Obamacare Case? Will Clarence Thomas Recuse Himself From Obamacare Case?
The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the health care reform law—renewing concerns about Thomas's conflict of interest.
Nov 14, 2011 / George Zornick
Occupy Cal Stands Its Ground Occupy Cal Stands Its Ground
A Berkeley undergraduate rebuts and rebukes the University of California Chancellor's criticism of Occupy Cal.
Nov 14, 2011 / StudentNation / Margaret Zhou
A Memoir of Glasnost A Memoir of Glasnost
Twenty years after the end of the Soviet Union, reflections on glasnost's fate.
Nov 14, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Ari Berman: Karl Rove’s Attack on Elizabeth Warren Backfired Ari Berman: Karl Rove’s Attack on Elizabeth Warren Backfired
Karl Rove’s ad is a vicious attack on Warren full of distorted images of the Occupy movement protesters and ungrounded claims.
Nov 14, 2011 / Press Room
The Passing of the Postwar Era The Passing of the Postwar Era
A major redistribution of global power is underway and arrangements that once hugely benefited the American people are coming undone.
Nov 14, 2011 / Andrew J. Bacevich
The GOP Candidates Are Confused on Afghanistan The GOP Candidates Are Confused on Afghanistan
Debate in South Carolina serves up little hawkishness, lots of know-nothingism.
Nov 14, 2011 / Bob Dreyfuss