How Prepared Are We for the Next Great Flu Breakout? How Prepared Are We for the Next Great Flu Breakout?
Why we're losing the war against influenza.
Jul 15, 2010 / John M. Barry
Switzerland’s Polanski Protection Program Switzerland’s Polanski Protection Program
I'd like to get away with a crime, too. How great a writer do I have to be to have the Swiss government protect me?
Jul 15, 2010 / Katha Pollitt
Fifty Years Ago, Democrats Finally Embraced ‘The Rights of Man’—Committing Unequivocally to Civil and Economic Rights Fifty Years Ago, Democrats Finally Embraced ‘The Rights of Man’—Committing Unequivocally to Civil and Economic Rights
Kennedy declared that " 'The Rights of Man'—the civil and economic rights essential to the human dignity of all men—are indeed our goal and are indeed our first pr...
Jul 15, 2010 / John Nichols
Move Your BIG Money Move Your BIG Money
New York City union leaders are threatening to move their pensions to alternative financial institutions if big banks continue to just say no to Obama's mortgage modification progr...
Jul 15, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
How to Survive the Crisis (Organize!) How to Survive the Crisis (Organize!)
At the US Social Forum, activists discuss how to meet basic needs—and take on the system.
Jul 15, 2010 / Feature / Ben Ehrenreich
The Trouble With Amazon The Trouble With Amazon
It's big, cheap and convenient. But does the online bookseller really serve readers' interests?
Jul 15, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Colin Robinson
Grisly Mamas Grisly Mamas
Conservative housewives have the same desire for power and respect that liberal women do. No wonder women comprise half of the Tea Party movement.
Jul 14, 2010 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Katrina Is Not a Metaphor Katrina Is Not a Metaphor
When we reduce the devastating hurricane to fiction—even really good fiction—we risk making it little more than a trope.
Jul 14, 2010 / Column / Melissa Harris-Perry
From Black to Black From Black to Black
Traveling along the Danube into the heart of the new Europe.
Jul 14, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Dimiter Kenarov
Indivisible Indivisible
The unit of measure united in the particulars inevitably leads to divisions; part of medium is to be indivisible, so divines the medium. He says, "I am neutral. I am neutrino & pass through objects to stay objective. I limit myself to experiments involving infinity—that is, unlimited license to be licentious: does it matter to murder matter? And is it murder to dissect what matters—how will I discover what is murder or what is matter? As a matter of fact, the uptilt creates a steep plane interrupting the plain, a stratum revealed as part of many strata united and thus dividable. As a stratospheric shower, particles aggregate into one granite unit. Is wave action just another wave to that which is indivisible?"
Jul 14, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Marcella Durand