249 Millionaires 249 Millionaires
I find this Reuters headline, "Get elected to Congress and get rich," fairly silly. Like many of the wealthiest Americans (the report doesn't factor in the recent economic slowdow...
Mar 14, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Howard Metzenbaum: The Last Ferocious Liberal Howard Metzenbaum: The Last Ferocious Liberal
When the Democratic Party was being remade in the 1980s and early 1990s as the second party of Wall Street, Howard Metzenbaum fought to defend the liberal values of Franklin Roose...
Mar 14, 2008 / John Nichols
Who’s Illegal? How Immigration Defines the ’08 Election Who’s Illegal? How Immigration Defines the ’08 Election
Conservative efforts to demonize undocumented immigrants have only energized a new generation of immigrant rights leaders.
Mar 13, 2008 / The Nation
Moving Pictures: Book Reveals Incarcerated Youth Art Moving Pictures: Book Reveals Incarcerated Youth Art
A generation of incarcerated Bay Area youth seizes the pen.
Mar 13, 2008 / The Nation
Daydreaming and I’m Thinking of You Daydreaming and I’m Thinking of You
This week's episode of Citizen Kang: The Congresswoman's chief of staff gets shot at and Kang lets her mind wander into dangerous territory.
Mar 13, 2008 / Feature / Gary Phillips
Reviving Vietnam War Tactics Reviving Vietnam War Tactics
One of Gen. Petraeus's top advisors advocates a return to the global Phoenix program used during the Vietnam War.
Mar 13, 2008 / Feature / Tom Hayden
Dueling Human Rights Reports Dueling Human Rights Reports
Every year, the U.S.-China exchange of human rights reports is one of my favorite events to observe. Not only does it invariably produce some amusing bureaucratic sniping, but of ...
Mar 13, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Un Lio Bestial Un Lio Bestial
In his poetry Roberto Bolaño gave himself over to the subversive, to antiheroes, ballad and saga.
Mar 13, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Forrest Gander
Windows Into the Night Windows Into the Night
The collected nonfiction of Roberto Bolaño is a treasure trove filled with straw and dust, jewels and gold.
Mar 13, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Marcela Valdes
A Garden of Monsters A Garden of Monsters
The imaginary fascists in Roberto Bolaño's ironic encyclopedia Nazi Literature in the Americas bear a complex relationship to reality.
Mar 13, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Carmen Boullosa