What Soccer Says About Us What Soccer Says About Us
What can the World Cup teach us about national identity and belonging?
Jun 30, 2010 / Column / Gary Younge
BP BP
(Sung by Representative Joe Barton, to the tune of "Blue Moon") BP, you've been so badly defamed— By shakedown artists so robbed, by petty bureaucrats blamed. BP, I'm sorry they've been so strict on These damages. You've been picked on, Without a case to convict on. But pay no mind to all these overreactions, For memories of this one more spill Will fade, like all your other infractions, And once again we'll shout, "Drill, baby, drill!" BP, you've been so badly defamed, The public's been so inflamed. BP, I'm truly ashamed.
Jun 24, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
A Disaster That Could Change Everything A Disaster That Could Change Everything
Will the BP spill prove to be Judgment Day for the decades of growing corporate rule over government?
Jun 24, 2010 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Women on Top? Women on Top?
Is our society on the verge of becoming a matriarchy? In your dreams.
Jun 24, 2010 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Right-Wing Women Win Big in Primary Voting Right-Wing Women Win Big in Primary Voting
Have they kicked through the glass ceiling?
Jun 17, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Semaphore Semaphore
Sure, some Americans use their flag in poor taste. But should they be prevented from doing so?
Jun 16, 2010 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
‘Cutthroat’ Crybabies ‘Cutthroat’ Crybabies
The White House press corps is entirely focused on what happens inside the White House. While that's not irrelevant, it's not what's really important.
Jun 16, 2010 / Column / Eric Alterman
Abraham Lincoln, Meet Client #9 Abraham Lincoln, Meet Client #9
Americans sacrifice to pay for a militarized, increasingly unequal society. Is it any wonder that people respond to calls for selflessness with defensiveness and cynicism?
Jun 9, 2010 / Column / Katha Pollitt
You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught
Despite conservative attempts to whitewash what they learn in school, young Americans are a diverse and tolerant bunch—and they know it.
Jun 9, 2010 / Column / Melissa Harris-Perry