How Online Learning Companies Bought America’s Schools

Under the banner of high-tech progress, corporate lobbyists have rammed through legislation privatizing K-12 education across the country.

Lee Fang

Why Europe Needs a New Deal

After months of political upheaval and chaos in the bond markets, few investors believe austerity programs are a route to growth and debt reduction.

Andy Robinson

Will Egypt’s Arab Spring Turn Into an Arab Nightmare?

On the eve of elections, those who once united in defiance of the Mubarak regime have fragmented into antagonistic camps.

Omneya El Naggar

You Cannot Evict an Idea

Bloomberg's raid on Occupy Wall Street was, above all, a cowardly act. But Occupy will live on with or without Liberty Square.

the Editors

The Keystone Victory

The moment couldn't have been more ripe for a real advance in the fight against climate change.

Mark Hertsgaard

Police Surveillance in the Digital Age: 24/7, Without a Warrant

That's what the Obama administration is arguing for, in a crucial case now before the Supreme Court.

David Cole

Noted.

Jessica Weisberg on Russell Pearce and the GOP and Jonah Engle on the fight to end the War on Drugs.

Various Contributors

Newt’s Surge

Calvin Trillin

Penn State’s Patriarchal Pastimes

There is a message here about masculine privilege.

Katha Pollitt

Herman Cain: What Hi-Tech Lynching?

More than two weeks after the GOP candidate was accused of sexual harassment, Republican men still support him.

Melissa Harris-Perry

Hemispheric Disturbances: On Michael Gazzaniga

If our brains act according to the causal laws governing all matter, in what sense can we be said to be free?

Cathy Gere

Blue Ridge: Streams Are Roaring

Merrill Gilfillan

Shelf Life

José Luis Guerín’s In the City of Sylvia, Tanya Hamilton’s Night Catches Us, Martin Scorsese’s New York, New York.

Akiva Gottlieb

Restless in Oslo: On Ida Ekblad and Edvard Munch

An obscure dissatisfaction, a sense that no formal solution works for long, is shared by the art of Ida Ekblad and Edvard Munch.

Barry Schwabsky

Starting out in Seattle: On Jonathan Raban

Jonathan Raban has made a persona out of the self that feels nowhere at home.

Vivian Gornick

Letters

Our Readers and Ari Berman

Puzzle No. 3216

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto