German Party Politics: Color Them Blurry German Party Politics: Color Them Blurry
Leftist parties in Germany offer a range of choices but no cohesive challenge to the right.
Oct 14, 2009 / Column / Katha Pollitt
A Gift From the Ramparts of Capital… A Gift From the Ramparts of Capital…
People shouldn't take Peace Prizes too seriously except under those rare circumstances when a prize committee somewhere gets it right.
Oct 14, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Alexander Cockburn
Limbaugh’s Many Hats and Excuses Limbaugh’s Many Hats and Excuses
If there's one thing the last two weeks have proved it's that it doesn't matter whether you're a politician, journalist, or a media pundit, when it comes to personal indiscretions ...
Oct 14, 2009 / Leslie Savan
ICE Program Under Fire ICE Program Under Fire
287(g), the Department of Homeland Security program that empowers local police, like notorious Sheriff Joe Arpaio, to detain undocumented immigrants, is under scrutiny.
Oct 14, 2009 / Feature / Jessica Weisberg
Right On, ‘Right On’! Right On, ‘Right On’!
Guatemala City
Oct 14, 2009 / Kim Phillips-Fein and Our Readers
My Response to Rush: It’s the Racism, Stupid My Response to Rush: It’s the Racism, Stupid
The real reason Limbaugh is losing his cool is that his dream of owning an NFL franchise is going up in smoke.
Oct 14, 2009 / Column / Dave Zirin
Aubade Aubade
Cell tower beacon a red boutonniere-- Sanankoroba on the hook w/ Senanque-- & flourishing thru this gunite, perishing world: a freesia fitted w/ aerofoils that turn in the wind & turn the wind to kilowatt-hours to power the flower forth--
Oct 14, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Zawacki
The Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue (Excerpt) The Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue (Excerpt)
If I sat next to you, spoke only to you, you would feel the warmth of my breath. As our shoulders touched you would shift, and I would know your movement as response. This is a world and we are in it. And still, as if this matters, I worry that you can't see me; I worry that you will go on without me in mind--even as our shoulders continue to touch, even as you carry my voice in your ear. At times I've wished for a structure to lean on, a landmark that's larger than the life around us, something that would govern us all. Maybe I want this because we almost had it. In truth, I was almost our Capital City. Did you know the longest total solar eclipse that will occur in the 21st century was experienced most fully this summer in Shanghai, in a city. China's most populated city. For six minutes and thirty-nine seconds, as the moon passed directly between the earth and the sun, for all those bodies all was darkness. I know how that feels. But daylight is the great extravagance. In the end I know this is true--even if I fall again and again into my private realities--because despite everything I am built out of lives.
Oct 14, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Claudia Rankine
Three Possible Explanations From the Nobel Committee Three Possible Explanations From the Nobel Committee
They have some justifying to do.
Oct 14, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Puzzle No. 3189 Puzzle No. 3189
ACROSS
1 and 11 Fools around with noises that the watch makes. Piffle! (12)
Oct 14, 2009 / Frank W. Lewis