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
Newman Nation Newman Nation
The Nation bids farewell to one of its greatest friends--actor and activist Paul Newman.
Oct 1, 2008 / Edward Sorel
New England New England
In New England the equipmental quality of equipment was discovered, the cleaning lady was deported, ants invade the attic and this is sad. There is no Bronx River Expressway there are single beds and shutters and rafters and a flash of lightning in the sky. There are thoughts like Old World, New World, Bank Vault and Whale. Happiness is a battering ram of one if by land two if by tiptoe, three if by a haunted house intrepid in its scholars, o'wearied in its deep.
Oct 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Lisa Jarnot