China’s Quest for Moral Authority China’s Quest for Moral Authority
China is booming, but slouches toward the moral authority needed to inspire a modern, open and prosperous state. Does Confucius hold the key?
Oct 1, 2008 / Feature / Orville Schell
Justice, Bush-Style Justice, Bush-Style
GOP loyalists have taken over the Justice Department and retooled the civil rights division as a political weapon.
Oct 1, 2008 / Feature / Andrew Gumbel
Paul Newman Paul Newman
He was funny, he was thoughtful, he was committed and, in the end, he was a friend, period.
Oct 1, 2008 / Victor Navasky
Looking Backward Looking Backward
As America's second Gilded Age fissions around us, we can sense the zeitgeist shift. Are we staring into the abyss of 1929 or heading for a new New Deal?
Oct 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Steve Fraser
Democracy Inaction Democracy Inaction
Nothing brings left and right together like a Big Government intervention on behalf of Big Money.
Oct 1, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Noted. Noted.
D.D. Guttenplan on British politics, Nancy Kranich on Banned Books Week
Oct 1, 2008 / The Editors
Born-Again Democracy Born-Again Democracy
Congress must take control of the failed financial system until a new president can legislate a more permanent and equitable solution.
Oct 1, 2008 / William Greider
Reality Bites Reality Bites
That McCain and Palin actually have a shot at the White House gives one pause contemplating the future of this country.
Oct 1, 2008 / Column / Eric Alterman
From Gorbachev to Putin From Gorbachev to Putin
Five authors provide differing views of the post-glasnost era and of the failed promise of democratic reform in Russia.
Oct 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert V. Daniels
No Exit: Laurence Tribe and ‘The Invisible Constitution’ No Exit: Laurence Tribe and ‘The Invisible Constitution’
Laurence Tribe's new book asks us to consider the "invisible" web of ideas that have grown around the text of the Constitution. But who's to say what it contains?
Oct 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare