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Stealing the Constitution

Inside the right’s campaign to hijack our country’s founding text—and how to fight back.

Garrett Epps

Confronting the Climate Cranks

It’s time to take on those who are sabotaging our response to the climate crisis—face to face.

Mark Hertsgaard

Obama: Triangulation 2.0?

In year three, will Obama heed the lessons of Clinton or Reagan?

Ari Berman

Healthcare Reality Check

The repeal bill won’t survive the Senate. But the real danger is piece-by-piece gutting of the Affordable Care Act’s consumer protections.

The Editors

Glenn Beck Targets Frances Fox Piven

In Beck’s twisted telling, it is activists like Piven—not the militias of the right—who threaten Americans’ safety.

The Editors

Noted.

Robert Dreyfuss on the Cuban embargo, John Nichols on the new RNC chair

Various Contributors

Comcast/NBC Merger Takes Media Consolidation to the Next Level

It’s past time for open hearings and a coherent policy on media ownership in the digital age.

Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols

Tunisia Rising

The revolution is far from over.

Laila Lalami

Guantánamos Here at Home

Bradley Manning is not the only person in the US held in pretrial solitary confinement. For many facing terrorism charges, it has become standard procedure.

Sally Eberhardt and Jeanne Theoharis

A Short Analysis of Sarah Palin’s Video Speech on the Tucson Shootings

What’s uppermost on her mind.

Calvin Trillin

A ‘Worm’ in the Neocons’ Plan to Bomb Iran?

A computer virus foiling Iran’s nuclear plans should delight those spoiling for an attack. Does it?

Eric Alterman

Obama: Triangulation 2.0?

In year three, will Obama heed the lessons of Clinton or Reagan?

Ari Berman

Library Man: On Claude Lévi-Strauss

With a sharp eye for cultural patterns and a keen feel for the shape of a story, Claude Lévi-Strauss was a poet in the laboratory of anthropology.

Thomas Meaney

Sonnet of Exemplary Sentences From the Chapter Pertaining to the Nature of Pronouns in Emile Benveniste’s ‘Problems in General Linguistics’ (Paris 1966)

Anne Carson

Dorothy Wordsworth

Jennifer Chang

Perfect-Bound: On Elizabeth Hardwick

Elizabeth Hardwick found New York’s jittery impermanence and inchoate density to be an obstacle for the fiction writer.

James Marcus

An Atlas of Reckonings

The horrors of The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database arise through the cumulative weight of its abstract pieces of information.

Robin Einhorn

Letters

Our Readers and Tracy Velázquez

Puzzle No. 1618

This puzzle originally appeared in the February 7, 1976, issue.

Frank W. Lewis