How the GOP Is Resegregating the South

Republicans are using the redistricting process to undermine minority voting power and ensure their party's dominance.

Ari Berman

Transpartisan Politics on the Plains

The Keystone fight showed ordinary Nebraskans their power. Will their unlikely alliance stick?

Madeline Ostrander

Why Did an Asylum Seeker to the US End Up in a Liberian Prison?

The US policy of criminalizing undocumented immigrants has led innocent deportees to be jailed and maligned in their home countries.

Deepa Fernandes and Abdulai Bah

Why Redistricting Threatens Democracy

It eliminates competition and guarantees incumbent power.

John Nichols

Newt vs. Mitt

How can it be that a party with nearly limitless financial resources has such paltry human resources?

Betsy Reed

Noted.

David Cole on the Supreme Court’s surprising defense of privacy, Umar Farooq on a student victory against a juvenile jail, Robert Dreyfuss on the legacy of the Haditha Massacre

Various Contributors

Global Business Elite Go Marxist at Davos!

Not really. But debates on rising inequality are now de rigueur at the World Economic Forum.

Andy Robinson

Adelson

Calvin Trillin

Sure, Apple Could Build the iPhone Here

Steve Jobs told Obama that Apple manufacturing jobs are never coming back to the US. Really?

Alexander Cockburn

Obama Stands Up to Bishops. Finally.

Shouldn't it be obvious that birth control coverage is about women's health, not “religious freedom”?

Katha Pollitt

The Future Is Not What It Used to Be: On ‘El País’

El País, Público and Spain’s Second Transition.

Jonathan Blitzer

Lucas’s Tuskegee Experiment

George Lucas’s Red Tails, Agnieszka Holland’s In Darkness.

Stuart Klawans

Letters

From the grassy knoll; democracy is coming to town; phenotype in the pea patch; acclaim suduko frenzy without you, I hear

Our Readers and Charles Taylor

Puzzle No. 3226

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto