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Will Obama the Constitutional Lawyer Please Stand Up?

There are many measures the president could take to restore civil liberties—if he wanted to.

David K. Shipler

Yes, He Can: Twenty Ways Obama Can Use Executive Power to Push a Progressive Agenda

From Cuba to climate change to criminal justice, progressives must push the president to act—and forge a better future.

The Editors

Readers Respond: How Should Obama Flex His Executive Muscle?

Nation readers provided good ideas—and a bit of wariness—when asked how Obamas should use his presidential authority.

The Editors

Old, Female and Homeless

Life on San Francisco’s streets for women over 50 is filled with hardships, small and large.

Rose Aguilar

Obama’s Shout-Out to Freedom

In his second inaugural address, the president stood for collective action, solidarity, social justice. Now let’s make him act on it.

The Editors

Government Persecution, From Aaron Swartz to Bradley Manning

The Justice Department has been ruthless in targeting those who bring hidden information into the public realm. 

Chase Madar

Noted

Robert Dreyfuss on peace and the inaugural address, Dan Wakefield on inaugural poet Richard Blanco, James Cersonsky and Alec Luhn on student movements, the editors on Jeremy Scahill’s Dirty Wars and John Palattella on William Deresiewicz’s Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

Various Contributors

Google’s Monopoly on the News

Left undiscussed in the FTC’s investigation is the search giant’s ability to limit what we all read.  

William F. Baker

A Message From Americans to France

Calvin Trillin

The ‘Sully’-ing of American Journalism

Andrew Sullivan garners much attention for his bold moves as a blogger. But what about the quality of his judgments?

Eric Alterman

From Seneca Falls to Selma to Stonewall

President Obama’s symbolic recognition of minorities isn’t a substitute for policy, but it does matter.

Melissa Harris-Perry

Magna Carter

Every musical note has life in it. For six decades the composer Elliott Carter imagined that life precisely.

David Schiff

Shelf Life

Shawn Francis Peters’s The Catonsville Nine.

Mark Oppenheimer

Hotel Artists

How working in hotels led Henri Matisse and Ian Wallace to rediscover the intoxicating purity of light.

Barry Schwabsky

Crazy, Stupid, Guns

Moussa Touré’s La Pirogue, Ruben Fleischer’s Gangster Squad

Stuart Klawans

Letters

Newtown, Connecticut…

Our Readers

Puzzle No. 3269

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

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto