February 23, 2015 Issue

Feature

Elizabeth Warren Insists She’s Not Running for President. These Activists Are Trying to Change Her Mind.

But would a Warren campaign help—or hurt—the causes she cares most about?
George Zornick
Loving the Puget Sound to Death

Four decades after the passage of the Clean Water Act, regulators haven’t kept up with the pollution pressure that growing populations put on America’s shorelines.
Madeline Ostrander
How Rory Kennedy’s ‘Last Days in Vietnam’ Distorts History

This Oscar-nominated doc is all about well-meaning Americans—with nothing about the indiscriminate US firepower that destroyed much of the country.

Nick Turse

Editorial

How Mitt Got Bushwhacked in the GOP’s ‘Establishment Primary’

The Bush Machine plays for keeps—and this time, they hauled out the heavy artillery to shoot down Romney.

John Nichols
The Oil Price Collapse Is Not Just Another Bust Cycle

This time, it could be long-lasting—with dramatic consequences for the climate, the economy and the global balance of power.
Michael T. Klare
Why Did It Take 10 Years to Publish the Diary of a Guantánamo Detainee?

An interview with Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s attorney and his editor.
Jon Wiener
Comix Nation

Jen Sorensen
Snapshot: Forcing Out the Islamic State

Rodi Said
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Books & the Arts

How Rory Kennedy’s ‘Last Days in Vietnam’ Distorts History

This Oscar-nominated doc is all about well-meaning Americans—with nothing about the indiscriminate US firepower that destroyed much of the country.

Nick Turse
Camus Redux

Today, Albert Camus is still alive but changed, thanks to the art of David Oelhoffen and Kamel Daoud.

Alice Kaplan
To Be (Charlie) or Not to Be (Charlie)?

Killing is not creating, and drawing is not killing. Charlie has the right to draw.
Kamel Daoud
Evangelical Boilerplate

Billy Graham’s innocuous blend of showmanship and salvation.
Molly Worthen
Fortune’s Son

Why the line from Barry Goldwater to Ted Cruz runs over Nelson Rockefeller.

Michael O’Donnell
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