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

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

Why I Heart King Abdullah

He was an old-school monarch who made America feel good about itself again.

Katha Pollitt

Romney, Not Finding Donor Support, Decides Not to Run

Calvin Trillin

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

Letters

Actions speak louder; progress and poverty; learning from Teachout; don’t be fooled

Our Readers, Eric Alterman and William Greider

Puzzle No. 3354

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

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto