Feminist Mothers, Flapper Daughters? Feminist Mothers, Flapper Daughters?
Young feminists aren't disdaining the movement, they're claiming it—but they want a bigger place in it.
Sep 30, 2010 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Fighting for Change, Longing for the Sea Fighting for Change, Longing for the Sea
Predictable Democratic losses in November aren't what we should fear. The real danger is in a political environment unable to build even the most tenuous bridges across partisan di...
Sep 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Melissa Harris-Perry
Linda McMahon’s Body Count Linda McMahon’s Body Count
Linda McMahon says she is running for the US Senate from Connecticut because she wants to "put people first." Those people clearly don't include the people who made ...
Sep 30, 2010 / Dave Zirin
Hands Off Social Security Hands Off Social Security
A White House deficit commission is reportedly considering deep benefit cuts for Social Security. We can and must address our deficit without punishing America’s workers, se...
Sep 30, 2010 / Sen. Bernie Sanders
Europe Marches; Brussels Stands Still Europe Marches; Brussels Stands Still
Europe's workers march against austerity, but no government will challenge the new neoliberal orthodoxy.
Sep 30, 2010 / Maria Margaronis
Sex and the GOP Sex and the GOP
The Republican Party is hard-selling its hot Mama Grizzlies. But it's mostly men—not women—who are buying.
Sep 30, 2010 / Feature / Betsy Reed
Democrats: Remember the Ladies! Democrats: Remember the Ladies!
The party's reluctance to capitalize on its feminist successes makes it look scared—and weak.
Sep 30, 2010 / Feature / Rebecca Traister
A Man of Enthusiasms: On Ben Sonnenberg A Man of Enthusiasms: On Ben Sonnenberg
Remembering Ben Sonnenberg (1936–2010)—writer, publisher, boulevardier—and his quarterly, Grand Street.
Sep 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Maria Margaronis
Ink Ink
I am the Angel of Death. I have come to confess.
Sep 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Jesse Nathan
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Alice Notley's Reason and Other Women; Andrew Joron's Trance Archive; Aaron Kunin's The Sore Throat and Other Poems.
Sep 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Steve Evans