Lab Test: Who Profits From Scientific Research? Lab Test: Who Profits From Scientific Research?
Does the profit motive distort and degrade the unpredictable path of scientific discovery?
Feb 26, 2009 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz
Opening the Files on Bush’s Secrets Opening the Files on Bush’s Secrets
Freedom of Information wish list: What did Treasury do with the TARP money? Who authorized torture? Plus, warrantless wiretap targets, FEMA's Katrina records and White House e-mail...
Feb 26, 2009 / Feature / Jon Wiener
Tibetan Exiles: ‘We Shall Overcome’ Tibetan Exiles: ‘We Shall Overcome’
Activists take inspiration from Rosa Parks, Gandhi and the Ruckus Society.
Surfers vs. the Superferry Surfers vs. the Superferry
How grassroots activists in Hawaii threw a wrench into plans for an environmentally hazardous superferry.
Feb 26, 2009 / Feature / Jerry Mander and Koohan Paik
A Global Green Deal A Global Green Deal
America must step up and lead an international campaign to curb emissions. Done properly, it will green the planet and our wallets.
Feb 26, 2009 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard
The Future of Social Security The Future of Social Security
New York City
Feb 25, 2009 / William Greider and Our Readers
Pundits Say Washington Must Instill Confidence Pundits Say Washington Must Instill Confidence
It's something money can't buy.
Feb 25, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin
That This That This
That this book is a history of a shadow that is a shadow of me mystically one in another Another another to subserve __ Day is a type when visible objects change then put on form but the anti-type That thing not shadowed __ Is light anything like this stray pencil commonplace copy as to one aberrant onward-gliding mystery __ A secular arrietta variation Grass angels perish in this harmonic collision because non-being cannot be "this" __ Not spirit not space finite Not infinite to those fixed-- That this millstone as such Quiet which side on which-- __ That a solitary person bears witness to law in the ark to an altar of snow and every age or century for a day is __ Is one mind put into another in us unknown to ourselves by going about among trees and fields in moonlight or in a garden to ease distance to fetch home spiritual things __
Feb 25, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Susan Howe
Puzzle No. 3160 Puzzle No. 3160
ACROSS
1 Evidently something like the puma pounces--but such are not legitimate occasions of inaction. (7,7)
Feb 25, 2009 / Frank W. Lewis
The Draft Sirota Campaign Begins The Draft Sirota Campaign Begins
There's been some pretty awesome grassroots mobilization around MSNBC's 10pm time slot, with Facebook groups devoted both to Sam Seder and Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks. Today Chr...
Feb 25, 2009 / Chris Hayes