Can Sandy Pope Revive the Teamsters? Can Sandy Pope Revive the Teamsters?
Concessionary contracts and lingering corruption have sapped the once-mighty union.
Detroit: Place and Space to Begin Anew Detroit: Place and Space to Begin Anew
Detroit stands as a symbol of the destruction deindustrialization left in its wake, but new initiatives in the Midwestern city have made it a leader in sustainable living, and have...
May 4, 2011 / Grace Lee Boggs
CNBC Hypes Bogus US Debt Rating CNBC Hypes Bogus US Debt Rating
CNBC reports that a ratings agency downgraded America's debt to "C"—without disclosing that a CNBC anchor recently owned the agency.
May 4, 2011 / Mark Ames
Nation Conversations: Grace Lee Boggs on the Moment for Revolution Nation Conversations: Grace Lee Boggs on the Moment for Revolution
The legendary activist says that a revolutionary transformation of our society is not only possible, but necessary.
May 4, 2011 / The Nation
With bin Laden Dead, Will We Keep Trying to Kill Our Way to Peace? With bin Laden Dead, Will We Keep Trying to Kill Our Way to Peace?
Our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have not helped our national security, Jeremy Scahill says, and the US is actually giving people in Afghanistan a reason to want to fight Ameri...
May 4, 2011 / Press Room
Pakistan’s K Street Connections Pakistan’s K Street Connections
Pakistan's lobbyists in Washington will have a tough time answering questions about the country's possible role in sheltering Osama bin Laden.
May 4, 2011 / Ari Berman
With bin Laden Dead, Will We Keep Trying to Kill Our Way to Peace? With bin Laden Dead, Will We Keep Trying to Kill Our Way to Peace?
Our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have not helped our national security, Jeremy Scahill says, and the US is actually giving people in Afghanistan a reason to want to fight America...
May 4, 2011 / The Ed Show
Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education
The exploitation of contingent labor, a shrinking middle class, administrative elephantiasis: the turmoil in academia is a microcosm of American society as a whole.
May 4, 2011 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz
Ode Ode
Blue jay vocalizes a clash on the color wheel, tulip heads removed one by one with a golf wedge. It’s something in the frequency. Expectations are high. There’s a reason they call it the nervous system. Someone in bed at 11 AM impersonates an empty house. Dear god. The sharpener’s dragged his cart from the shed. His bell rings out of the twelfth century to a neighborhood traumatizing its food with dull knives. A hammer creeps to the edge of a reno and peers over. Inching up its pole, a tentative flag. What is the source? Oh spring, my heart is in my mouth.
May 4, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Karen Solie
Margins of Modernism: A New Historicism in Art Margins of Modernism: A New Historicism in Art
In the paintings of Silke Otto-Knapp and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, there's an unending entanglement, and dialogue, between the present and the past.
May 4, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky