Obama’s Crackdown on Whistleblowers

The NSA Four reveal how a toxic mix of cronyism and fraud blinded the agency before 9/11.

Tim Shorrock

The Right Leans In

Media-savvy conservative think tanks take aim and fire at progressive power bases in the states.

Lee Fang

Wayne LaPierre Is Winning

Deride the NRA's spokesman all you want, but his group is close to gutting gun control legislation in Congress.

the Editors

Rape—Still No Joke

Decades of work to change rape laws has done little to change culture.

Jessica Valenti

Noted

Aura Bogado on the police killing of Manuel Diaz, Hamilton Fish on Iraq veteran Tomas Young, Robert Dreyfuss on “Obama's General” versus drones, the editors on New York City’s stop-and-frisk trial

Various Contributors

The Dark Side of DNA Evidence

Collecting DNA upon arrest can identify the guilty and exonerate the innocent. But it also amounts to an expanding racial dragnet.

Jason Silverstein

Republican Brawl

Calvin Trillin

The Passion and Eloquence of Anthony Lewis

For more than three decades, he was perhaps the most prominent establishment voice for the antiwar, human rights and civil rights movements.

Eric Alterman

What Difference Will Same-Sex Marriage Make?

Sooner or later, marriage equality will win. What happens to marriage then?

Melissa Harris-Perry

Made in the USA? Letter From London

Books about London in its Olympic year and after see Americanization eroding the city’s gift for democratic gradualism.

Leo Robson

Shelf Life

Paul Hoover’s second edition of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology.

Ange Mlinko

Man in the Middle: On Philip Glass

Philip Glass’s new opera, The Perfect American, is a mix of bluster and inspiration.

Jonathan Blitzer

Letters

Our Readers and James W. Loewen

Puzzle No. 3277

And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto