Lullaby: Susan Stewart’s Red Rover Lullaby: Susan Stewart’s Red Rover
In language stark and plain as hymns, Susan Stewart explores our insatiable desire to find meaning in remembrance.
Oct 29, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Sarah Palin’s Bubble Deflates Just as Her Clothing Bills Arrive Sarah Palin’s Bubble Deflates Just as Her Clothing Bills Arrive
All dressed up with no place to go.
Oct 29, 2008 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Letters Letters
China's Confucian Revival
Dent, Minn.
Oct 29, 2008 / Our Readers, Daniel Lazare, and Orville Schell
Manifesto Manifesto
after Breton When I dream, I vote. Exercise my rights as citizen of the dream state to terra-form the future. Work to abolish the most abject poverty of all-- that of knowing only one world. Activists, lovers-- don't just entwine your bodies, but also dreams. When you sleep together, go all the way!
Oct 29, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Elaine Equi
Olbermann Comment: Sarah Palin Is a Socialist Olbermann Comment: Sarah Palin Is a Socialist
Palin is accusing Obama of advocating socialism even though she supports collective wealth sharing in her home state of Alaska.
Oct 29, 2008 / Countdown
India’s Persecuted Christians India’s Persecuted Christians
Members of India's poorest classes who converted to Christianity to escape the caste system, now find themselves the targets of brutal persecution by Hindu nationalists.
Oct 29, 2008 / Feature / Barbara Crossette
Seismic Shifts in the Political Landscape Seismic Shifts in the Political Landscape
There's clearly a new political landscape forming in the U.S. That's what the polls are telling us. It's not just that the first major-party black candidate for President is lead...
Oct 29, 2008 / TomDispatch
McCain’s Taxing Logic McCain’s Taxing Logic
Even his core supporters get it: Someone's got to pay for this mess, and better those who got rich off the stock market theft than the rest of us.
Oct 29, 2008 / Column / Robert Scheer
Meeting Myself in Bucks County Meeting Myself in Bucks County
Knocking on doors for Obama, a native son discovers how things have changed.
Oct 28, 2008 / Feature / Robert S. Eshelman
McCain’s Bermuda Triangle McCain’s Bermuda Triangle
Just months after the Keating Five scandal, John McCain hosted a family reunion at a Bermuda Navy base--on the taxpayer's dime.
Oct 28, 2008 / Feature / Ross Tuttle