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Bruce Springsteen’s Political Voice

He began his career singing about cars and girls before moving on to empty factories and abandoned quarries—and now, with Wrecking Ball, the depredations of Wall Street.

Eric Alterman

The Federal Reserve Turns Left

It’s now the only governing institution that understands the depths of the economic crisis.

William Greider

Can ‘Caring Across Generations’ Change the World?

A new campaign unites caregivers and care-receivers with a revolutionary vision.

Laura Flanders

The Age of American Shadow Power

Covert operations have now assumed a dominant—and destructive—role in US foreign policy.

Juan Cole

Willy Loman’s Secret

Death of a Salesman speaks to our time on the failure of competitive capitalism.

Lee Siegel

The GOP Tries to Woman Up

It is a painfully awkward dance for a party more accustomed to trampling on women’s rights.

The Editors

Why the Supreme Court Matters

A GOP win in November would move the most conservative bench in history even further to the right.

Ari Berman

Noted

George Zornick scrutinizes Obama’s stance on campaign finance reform, Laura Bolt reports on the Supreme Court’s strip-search ruling and the editors congratulate John Nichols on winning the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism.

Various Contributors

The True Horror of the ‘Florence’ Decision

The Supreme Court—as well as the Obama administration—upholds the right of the world’s biggest jailer to strip everyone who comes into its grasp.

JoAnn Wypijewski

The Republican National Committee Selects a Campaign Slogan

Calvin Trillin

The Fight for American Liberalism

If their fortunes are ever to revive, liberals must find a way to recapture FDR’s militant and optimistic spirit.

Eric Alterman

What Do We See in Obama?

As in a Rorschach test, people see in him what they want to see. Why don’t we look at his record?

Gary Younge

Bruce Springsteen’s Political Voice

He began his career singing about cars and girls before moving on to empty factories and abandoned quarries—and now, with Wrecking Ball, the depredations of Wall Street.

Eric Alterman

The Age of American Shadow Power

Covert operations have now assumed a dominant—and destructive—role in US foreign policy.

Juan Cole

Willy Loman’s Secret

Death of a Salesman speaks to our time on the failure of competitive capitalism.

Lee Siegel

Among the Tufted Canes: Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry

Geoffrey Brock’s anthology of twentieth-century Italian poetry offers the risk of a counter-eloquence.

James Longenbach

Five Poems

Adrienne Rich, 1929–2012

Adrienne Rich

Shelf Life

Norman Davies’s Vanished Kingdoms.

Thomas Meaney

Unmanageable Realities: On César Aira

Varamo is the latest novel-in-translation from Argentina’s slipperiest living writer.

Marcela Valdes

Letters

Feedback on the April 2 Occupy USA issue and Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Rediscovering Poverty.”

Our Readers and Barbara Ehrenreich

Puzzle No. 3235

Keep up with Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto