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
A Bronx Tale A Bronx Tale
From Providence to Los Angeles and even the Bronx, urban rivers that were polluted and even paved over are being restored.
Jul 26, 2007 / Tracy Tullis
Dangerous Privilege Dangerous Privilege
We need a law to define and limit the President's claim of executive privilege, and should set a process for Congress to overcome it.
Jul 26, 2007 / Aziz Huq
Impeachable Offenses Impeachable Offenses
The burgeoning movement to impeach Bush and Cheney is a rational response at a time when 80 percent of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction.
Jul 26, 2007 / John Nichols
Harry Potter and the Half-Baked Epic Harry Potter and the Half-Baked Epic
The last book in J.K. Rowling's saga is marked by throwaway references to a post-9/11 world and derivative insights that never add up to a coherent moral vision.
Jul 26, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Lakshmi Chaudhry