The GOP Tries to Woman Up
It is a painfully awkward dance for a party more accustomed to trampling on women’s rights.
Print Magazine
April 30, 2012 Issue
Cover art by: Cover photo by Reuters/Carlo Allegri, design by Milton Glaser Incorporated
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Editorial
Why the Supreme Court Matters
A GOP win in November would move the most conservative bench in history even further to the right.
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.
Column
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.
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?
Letters
Letters
Feedback on the April 2 Occupy USA issue and Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Rediscovering Poverty.”
Feature
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 ...
The Federal Reserve Turns Left
It’s now the only governing institution that understands the depths of the economic crisis.
Can ‘Caring Across Generations’ Change the World?
A new campaign unites caregivers and care-receivers with a revolutionary vision.
The Age of American Shadow Power
Covert operations have now assumed a dominant—and destructive—role in US foreign policy.
Willy Loman’s Secret
Death of a Salesman speaks to our time on the failure of competitive capitalism.
Books & the Arts
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 ...
The Age of American Shadow Power
Covert operations have now assumed a dominant—and destructive—role in US foreign policy.
Willy Loman’s Secret
Death of a Salesman speaks to our time on the failure of competitive capitalism.
Among the Tufted Canes: Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry
Geoffrey Brock’s anthology of twentieth-century Italian poetry offers the risk of a counter-eloquence.
Unmanageable Realities: On César Aira
Varamo is the latest novel-in-translation from Argentina’s slipperiest living writer.
