Olympic Dreams and Nightmares Olympic Dreams and Nightmares
In the best of all possible worlds, 8-8-08 will be the luckiest of dates for China, as the Olympic Games put the country on display. Or it could become a real nightmare.
Jul 26, 2007 / Feature / Jeffrey Wasserstrom
It’s Easier to Insure Pets Than Kids It’s Easier to Insure Pets Than Kids
Americans will spend $9.8 billion on pet healthcare this year. Why is the President so insistent that we can't provide health coverage to poor children?
Jul 26, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich
Who’s the Victim in the Case of Michael Vick? Who’s the Victim in the Case of Michael Vick?
Michael Vick has a 10-year contract with the Atlanta Falcons for $130 million. His skill at running, kicking and throwing a football has won him the admiration of millions ...
Jul 26, 2007 / Katha Pollitt
Stuff Happens Stuff Happens
Reviews of No End in Sight, The Devil Came on Horseback, The Sugar Curtain and Sunshine.
Jul 26, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Lives of Others The Lives of Others
Lois Gordon's new biography of Nancy Cunard brings the legendary heiress and activist back to life.
Jul 26, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Carla Kaplan
I’m Not the Man I Used to Be I’m Not the Man I Used to Be
The reasons for Günter Grass's silence about his membership in the Waffen SS remain safely hidden in his new memoir.
Jul 26, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Andreas Huyssen
The Missing Class The Missing Class
Sociologist Katherine Newman talks about the "near poor," that vast pool of workers who are neither officially destitute nor comfortably working-class.
Jul 26, 2007 / Feature / Eyal Press
A Grassroots Social Forum A Grassroots Social Forum
For 10,000 grassroots organizers at the first US Social Forum in Atlanta, the orations were secular and the pulpit was political.
Jul 26, 2007 / Feature / Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
All Rupert, All the Time All Rupert, All the Time
Will Rupert Murdoch's play to own and operate the Wall Street Journal have a silver lining for liberals?
Jul 26, 2007 / Column / Eric Alterman
On the Latest Washington Scandal On the Latest Washington Scandal
David Vitter, caught in the act.
Jul 26, 2007 / Column / Calvin Trillin