How to Save the Democratic Party

The time has come for a showdown between the reformist and accommodationist wings of the party.

L.R. Runner

How to Save the Democratic Party: Replies

We need to intensify the engagement of grassroots Democrats with progressive ideals.

Various Contributors

‘The Limits to Growth’: A Book That Launched a Movement

This mega-bestseller has been attacked repeatedly since its publication forty years ago, but its warnings about the climate were alarmingly prescient. 

Christian Parenti

It’s Time to Fix the Filibuster!

Senate Dems should restore the practice to its proper function: as a tool for public dissent, rather than unchecked, covert obstruction.

the Editors

Latinos Are Ready to Fight Climate Change—Are Green Groups Ready for Them?

Latinos—along with other minorities and youth—are the strongest supporters of action against climate change. It’s time mainstream enviros got the message.

Mark Hertsgaard

Noted

Allison Kilkenny on protesting the “fiscal cliff,” Liliana Segura on Ben Jealous and the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship, Liz Webster on a new Innocence Project for women, Robert Dreyfuss on the military’s targeting of Afghan kids, and the editors on a labor prize for John Nichols.

Various Contributors

Our Student Prizewinners

We are delighted to announce the winners of The Nation’s seventh annual Student Writing Contest, Andrew Gambrione and Tess Saperstein.

the Editors

Go to Your Womb, Ross Douthat

The New York Times columnist is so obsessed with women’s fertility, it’s too bad he can’t get pregnant himself.

Katha Pollitt

A More Imperfect Union: On the European Central Bank

How a central bank created to exist apart from politics got drawn into bitter political arguments.

Henry Farrell

A Dash for It: On Lisa Cohen

The unconventional story of three women and their unconventional lives in the early twentieth century.

Ruth Scurr

Glamour Suits

Sam Mendez’s Skyfall, David O. Russell’s Silver Lining Playbook, Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina, Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone, Katheryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty.

Stuart Klawans

Back

Joseph Donahue

Shelf Life

Breaking the Silence’s Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers’ Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000–2010.

Eyal Press

Exchange

Flood insurance: build an ark

Our Readers and Naomi Klein

Puzzle No. 3264

And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto