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The fourth annual winner of the Puffin/Nation Prize for 2004 is author and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich, a longtime contributor to this magazine, as well as to other periodicals on the

Professor Paul Samuelson’s Economics: An Introductory Analysis has been the bestselling college economics textbook for more than fifty years.

Attorney General John Ashcroft has never been one to hide his anger under a bushel.

However Ukraine’s crisis is resolved, it is clear that interference by Russia and the United States has been massive. Viktor Yanukovich, the current Prime Minister, was Moscow’s favorite.

Politics doesn’t grant any long mourning periods. Democrats have to shake off the postelection blues–now–and begin agitating among themselves to create a very different party.

If it had been even a primitive nuclear weapon that hit the World Trade Center three years ago, hundreds of thousands of people would have died instead of fewer than 3,000, and the free society w

How long did it take Republicans to write their thank-you note to the Christian right? About five minutes.

No alien penetration or treachery of double agents has ever done nearly as much damage to the CIA as the infighting consequent upon the arrival of each new director, charged by his White House ma

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I’ve never had a strong appetite for travel literature.

Michelangelo and Ulysses came home from the war with knapsacks bulging, bearing the reward for hardships suffered and inflicted. “We promised you the world,” the soldiers boasted to their wives.

In American Dream, his masterful new book about welfare reform, Jason DeParle brings together two groups of people who rarely seem to meet: welfare policy-makers and welfare recipients.

After the Kinsey Report but before the first Penthouse Forum, John Updike wrote, “He kneels in a kind of sickness between her spread legs.

As war threatened Europe in the 1930s, a physicist turned to a psychiatrist to help understand the impending violence.