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Backward, Christian Soldiers

Zealots are trying to turn the military into a religious army. Mikey Weinstein is fighting back.

Stephen Glain

The Kids Are All Right

As a mentoring program shows, the arc of a child’s life can be altered by a single stable adult.

David Kirp

How Bloomberg Does Business

The mayor’s company created a “coalition” to promote its interests in the Comcast-NBC merger, proving itself an agile peddler of influence in Washington.

Aram Roston

For Democracy in Egypt

Will Obama follow Washington tradition by undermining the protests in the name of “stability”? Or will he practices what he preaches and stand with protesters?

The Editors

Fighting for Liberation in Tahrir Square

Protesters in Egypt all agree on one thing: Mubarak must go.

Anand Gopal

Noted.

John Nichols on the AOL/Huffington Post merger, Ari Berman on the Democratic Leadership Council’s demise and Riddhi Shah on invisible government benefits

Various Contributors

Discomfited by Democracy

The uprising in Egypt is a rare opportunity to support democracy without imperialism. Will Obama take the chance?

Chris Hayes

The ‘Hero’ of the War on Terror

Congressman Peter King’s dark fantasies about American Muslims are intruding on reality.

Michelle Goldberg

Dishonoring Reagan

The former president set in motion a sizable slice of the fantasies destroying America.

Alexander Cockburn

It Takes a Village, Not a Tiger

Whether you’re a tiger mother, a soccer mom, a helicopter parent or something else, if you’re not in poverty, then your kids will probably end up okay.

Katha Pollitt

Donald Rumsfeld’s Memoir

Calvin Trillin

Dishonoring Reagan

The former president set in motion a sizable slice of the fantasies destroying America.

Alexander Cockburn

The Dying Swan: On Jennifer Homans

Jennifer Homans thinks ballet is dying, its masters dead and gone. But ballet, which exists in time and leaves no record, is always dying.

Marina Harss

Crooked Sticks: On Utopianism

At the utopian community of Fruitlands, vegetables were not only eaten. They were also imitated.

Brenda Wineapple

Amazement in Reverse: On Martin Creed and Gabriel Orozco

Martin Creed and Gabriel Orozco reduce the artistic gesture to the smallest effective intervention into reality.

Barry Schwabsky

Turning Oil Into Water

After a plan to tow icebergs from Antarctica ran aground, the Saudis used their oil wealth to build desalination plants for watering their desert kingdom.

Frederick Deknatel

Letters

Our Readers and Dan Kaufman

Puzzle No. 1621

This puzzle originally appeared in the February 28, 2011

Frank W. Lewis