WikiLeaks: The Latin America Files

As Ecuador grants asylum to Julian Assange, here is a closer look at Cablegate in Latin America.

Peter Kornbluh

How WikiLeaks Revitalized Brazil’s Media

Cablegate did not just reveal secrets, it inspired a new culture of investigative journalism.

Natalia Viana

WikiLeaks and the War on Drugs

Cablegate revealed just how far the US goes to drive Mexico’s counternarcotics operations.

Blanche Petrich Moreno

WikiLeaks Colombia: Gossip and Counterinsurgency

From trivial matters to border tension with Hugo Chávez, Cablegate was a mixed bag of revelations for Colombians.

Carlos Eduardo Huertas

Latin America After Cablegate: What Changed?

A discussion on the WikiLeaks legacy, from Argentina to Peru.

Peter Kornbluh, Gustavo Gorriti, Santiago O’Donnell and Francisca Skoknic

Feel the Burn: Making the 2012 Heat Wave Matter

This scorching summer could be a global warming landmark—if we demand climate action from our leaders.

Mark Hertsgaard

Alexander Cockburn: He Beat the Devil

The Nation’s longest-running columnist was a witty, brilliant, coruscating presence in our pages for almost thirty years.

Victor Navasky

Noted

John Nichols on Romney’s Libor pals, George Zornick on Colorado’s gun laws, Michael Z. Youhana on WikiLeaks in Guatemala and Zoë Schlanger on tar sands.

Various Contributors

Remembering Alex

For what the ancients called avarice and iniquity, Alex’s hate was pure. No writer had a deadlier sting against the corruptions of empire.

JoAnn Wypijewski

Mitt Romney’s Tax Returns

Calvin Trillin

Let’s Just Say It: The Republicans AND the Media Are the Problem

No wonder the public remains so misinformed, as bigfoot pundits not only whitewash Republican extremism but paint Obama’s soggy centrism in false hues as its ideological equivalent.

Eric Alterman

With Aurora, Another Mass Killing Shocks America. Why?

James Holmes’s rampage was horrifying, but it was not unfathomable.

Gary Younge

For Real: Torture America Style

Institutionalized torture says not look what we can do, but look what we disown, what only the bad apples among us require.

Peter C. Baker

Living With Disjunction: Manifesta 9 and Documenta 13

Steeped in anthropology and art history, this summer’s big shows are occasions for talk instead of exploring art that reaches the unsaid.

Barry Schwabsky

Subterranean Blues: On ExxonMobil

Moral indignation is no longer enough to combat the power of Big Oil.

Kim Phillips-Fein

Shelf Life

Louis Malle’s Vanya on 42nd Street; Vera Farmiga’s Higher Ground; John Cassavetes’s Too Late Blues

Akiva Gottlieb

Letters

Why elites fail

Our Readers

Puzzle No. 3247

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Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto