April 4, 2011 Issue

Cover art by: Cover photo by Reuters, design by Milton Glaser Incorporated

Feature

Beyond Austerity

Deficit mania is built on a series of destructive neoliberal myths.
William Mitchell
Sound Bites for a Sick Britain

David Cameron’s coalition is prescribing the economic policy equivalent of leeches.
Aditya Chakrabortty
Cutbacks Come to Liverpool

The government is making life immeasurably harder for some of the country’s poorest people.
Jennifer O’Mahony
Remembering the Triangle Fire

After 100 years, the tragedy still inspires outrage and grief. Why does it have a hold on us?
Joshua Freeman
The Next Big Housing Crisis?

Second-lien debt could be a greater threat to bank solvency than the subprime disaster of 2008.
Alex Ulam

Editorial

We Are All Wisconsinites Now

How can the pro-worker movement born in the streets of Madison be nurtured into a national force?
The Editors
Noted.

John Nichols on the smear campaign against NPR, Kate Murphy on fairly taxing the richest Americans and Molly O’Toole on southern Arizona’s movement for secession—from Arizona
Various Contributors
Libya and the Dilemma of Intervention

No-fly zones have, at best, a mixed record as a form of humanitarian intervention, and instituting one over Libya will do little to halt Qaddafi’s military advantages.
The Editors
Hiroshima to Fukushima

The problem with mankind wielding nuclear power isn’t about backup generators or safety rules—it’s our essential human fallibility.
Jonathan Schell
A Warning From Japan

The message out of Fukushima is clear: our own fleet of leaky old nuclear plants should be decommissioned now.
Christian Parenti
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Books & the Arts

Hiroshima to Fukushima

The problem with mankind wielding nuclear power isn’t about backup generators or safety rules—it’s our essential human fallibility.
Jonathan Schell
Remembering the Triangle Fire

After 100 years, the tragedy still inspires outrage and grief. Why does it have a hold on us?
Joshua Freeman
My Monster, My Self: On Nicholas Carr and William Powers

With our tiny screens and cellphones, we have become prosthetic gods, the whole world in our handhelds. Are we not also monsters?
Gary Greenberg
A Minor Exception: On W.C. Minor and Noah Webster

The career of W.C. Minor is a reminder that the legacy of Yale’s lexicographers is no less noteworthy than that of its deconstructionists.
Joshua Kendall
As If: On Barbie Zelizer

Most journalists think that words are more important than images. Barbie Zelizer thinks they are wrong.
Victor Navasky
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