Remembering Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth Remembering Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth
The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, a giant of the civil rights movement known for his decades of work in support of desegregation, died Wednesday in Birmingham, Alabama.
Oct 5, 2011 / Peter Rothberg
Occupy America Occupy America
As Occupy Wall Street spreads, more than 115 parallel occupations have cropped up in cities around the world. Is this the beginning of something new?
Oct 5, 2011 / The Editors
Occupying Wall Street, Building a Movement Occupying Wall Street, Building a Movement
The OWS phenomenon has inspired millions. If it links up with the slow, difficult work of movement-building, it can bring about systemic change.
Oct 5, 2011 / Peter Dreier
Noted. Noted.
Ari Berman on the GOP voting laws, Robert Gangi on NYPD drug arrests, Alia Malek on the Irvine 11 and Peter Rothberg on Wangari Maathai
Oct 5, 2011 / Various Contributors
The UK’s Labour Party Finds Its Voice The UK’s Labour Party Finds Its Voice
Ed Miliband has began to nudge his party in a new direction—a left populism that just might challenge Britain’s real rulers, in corporate boardrooms and in Parliament.
Oct 5, 2011 / D.D. Guttenplan
Should Obama Face a Challenge in the Democratic Primary? Should Obama Face a Challenge in the Democratic Primary?
Facing a primary challenger might force Obama to embrace progressive ideals—and he can’t win 2012 if he doesn’t.
Oct 5, 2011 / Feature / John Nichols
Can Marine Le Pen Win in France? Can Marine Le Pen Win in France?
The new leader of the National Front has risen in the polls by borrowing arguments from the left. But critics worry: has she turned against her father’s bigotry, or merely ma...
Oct 5, 2011 / Feature / Agnès Catherine Poirier
The Wrong Moral Revolution: On Michael Barnett The Wrong Moral Revolution: On Michael Barnett
To see humanitarianism everywhere is not to see it at all.
Oct 5, 2011 / Books & the Arts / David Rieff
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Jean-Patrick Manchette’s Fatale, Binyavanga Wainaina’s One Day I Will Write About This Place, Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s The History of Costaguana
Oct 5, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Alexandra Schwartz
Getting to Denmark: On Francis Fukuyama Getting to Denmark: On Francis Fukuyama
The Origins of Political Order, a work of total world history, pits the old Fukuyama against the new.
Oct 5, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Meaney