Climate Roulette Climate Roulette
A frightening new climate change study says the United States must quit carbon within ten years.
Oct 7, 2009 / Mark Hertsgaard
Help Wanted Help Wanted
Benefits extensions and retraining are not sufficient to address the staggering level of unemployment now facing Americans.
Oct 7, 2009 / The Editors
Noted. Noted.
On healthcare, Representative Grayson lands a punch; momentum against "don't ask, don't tell"; Obama goes weak on press freedom; Greece votes socialist as Europe trends right.
Oct 7, 2009 / The Editors
What Whoopi Goldberg (‘Not a Rape-Rape’), Harvey Weinstein (‘So-Called Crime’) et al. Are Saying in Their Outrage Over the Arrest of Roman Polanski What Whoopi Goldberg (‘Not a Rape-Rape’), Harvey Weinstein (‘So-Called Crime’) et al. Are Saying in Their Outrage Over the Arrest of Roman Polanski
He's been punished for this lapse--exiled for decades from LA!
Oct 7, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Obama Trapped Behind Wall of Mideast Containment Obama Trapped Behind Wall of Mideast Containment
Why the Obama administration's efforts to achieve a Middle East peace between the Israelis and Palestinians are inextricably linked to its efforts to bring Iran to heel.
Oct 7, 2009 / Feature / Ira Chernus
End the War End the War
This post was researched and co-written by Fernanda Diaz. (Click here to skip to a guide to antiwar protest activities this week.) The 9th year of the war in Afghanistan begins ...
Oct 7, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Time to Raise Pell! Time to Raise Pell!
Young people urge their Senators to support cutting wasteful subsidies to student loan companies, and to invest at least $40 billion in the Pell grant program.
Oct 7, 2009 / StudentNation / The Nation
Thin Shangdu Thin Shangdu
The millipede of furious minds who concocts all steel sternumed glass, imagines the heart of what they make, all ruse & rooms of ruby ventricled chandeliers. Along the rear of this vertical frontier: tents & oil spilt ponds, a jungle of bloomers hangs on tiers of stocking string. An opera singer, once in tiger's masque, keens which echoes deep in the well of his welder's mask. A young boy dreams of mums.
Oct 7, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Cathy Park Hong
Russian Journalists Still Under Threat Russian Journalists Still Under Threat
Three years after the assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politikovskaya, impunity reigns.
Oct 7, 2009 / Feature / Adam Federman