Hoaxville USA Hoaxville USA
Ah, the dog days of autumn, when the media are full of hoaxes because nothing much else is going on. Last Thursday, the Heene family of Colorado gave us a homemade version of the ...
Oct 21, 2009 / Leslie Savan
Puzzle No. 3190 Puzzle No. 3190
ACROSS
1 Setting out, and putting on the scales what keeps things steady. (8,6)
Oct 21, 2009 / Frank W. Lewis
Low-Income Students Need your Help! UPDATED Low-Income Students Need your Help! UPDATED
The school year is well underway, and most of you know how savage the budget cuts have been. Excellent teachers who care about their students –yes, they exist! --are struggli...
Oct 21, 2009 / Katha Pollitt
Letters Letters
Deadline Poet Hits Bull's-Eye
Upper Marlboro, Md.
Oct 21, 2009 / Our Readers and Barry Schwabsky
More OutrAIGe More OutrAIGe
Nightmare on Wall Street continues--come March 2010, AIG plans on upping the bonuses for its Financial Products division to nearly $200 million, bringing the total to $426 million ...
Oct 21, 2009 / Feature / Greg Kaufmann
Can We Turn Pain to Power in the Congo? Can We Turn Pain to Power in the Congo?
More than 5 million have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and violence against women is so common that it's been called femicide-genocide. What can we here in the U...
Oct 21, 2009 / GRITtv
The Right Goes Viral The Right Goes Viral
A new site lets you rate teachers, review textbooks and "raise awareness about America’s slide to communism."
Oct 21, 2009 / StudentNation / Francis Reynolds
Memo to Hillary: Friends Don’t Let Friends ♥ Fascists Memo to Hillary: Friends Don’t Let Friends ♥ Fascists
How much should it matter to Americans that David Cameron, who will probably become the Prime Minister of Britain in May, recently took his party out of the main center-right group...
Oct 21, 2009 / D.D. Guttenplan
Zooming In on the Year’s Biggest Hoax Zooming In on the Year’s Biggest Hoax
If we could get one of the banking lobbyists to float a duct-taped flying saucer balloon, Wolf Blitzer might cover the real hoax.
Oct 21, 2009 / Column / Robert Scheer