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Feature
Kabuki Democracy—and How to Fix It
Obama’s election was not the game changer progressives hoped for. For that, we need to remake our democracy’s rules.
Eric Alterman
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The End of New Deal Liberalism
When the Democratic Party fails to use government’s extensive powers to reverse economic disorder, it must be the end of the line for the governing ideology inherited from Roosevelt, Truman and Johnson.
William Greider
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Former CIA Asset Luis Posada Goes to Trial
The Cuban exile has a long record of terror, but his trial, starting today, is on lesser charges.
Peter Kornbluh
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Editorial
Clampdown in Hungary
The right-wing nationalist government has defunded and harassed the influential theater community and passed a harsh new media censorship law, threatening the country’s fragile democratic institutions.
Alisa Solomon
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Dwight Eisenhower & ‘The Nation’
The Nation was central to Eisenhower’s understanding of the military-industrial complex.
James Ledbetter
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Today’s Color Line
America may have a black president—but very few other African-Americans have been elected to political office.
Eric Foner
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Noted.
John Nichols on filibuster reform; Ari Berman on Obama’s new chief of staff, Bill Daley.
Various Contributors
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Hope in 2011
The arc of history bends towards justice, but it will not bend by itself.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Column
The New Congress and the Coming Class War
Conservatives today talk up all kinds of values, but they’re all subordinated to a single goal: class warfare.
Eric Alterman
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The Right Wing Reboots Segregation
If Republicans had their way, citizenship in America would become pay-to-play.
Patricia J. Williams
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The Message Other Mayors Got From How Newark’s Corey Booker Came Out of the Great Storm
It was the ultimate photo-op.
Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Dwight Eisenhower & ‘The Nation’
The Nation was central to Eisenhower’s understanding of the military-industrial complex.
James Ledbetter
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Today’s Color Line
America may have a black president—but very few other African-Americans have been elected to political office.
Eric Foner
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Hope in 2011
The arc of history bends towards justice, but it will not bend by itself.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Trakt Marks: On Ian Frazier’s Siberia
Like Siberia itself, Ian Frazier’s Travels in Siberia seems simply to drift off into the distance.
Elaine Blair
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A Secret Archive: On the Mexican Suitcase
The 4,500 images in the recently discovered Mexican Suitcase deepen our understanding of photojournalism as well as the complexities of the Spanish Civil War.
Dan Kaufman
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The Year in Movies
The highlights of 2010 included Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer, Jeff Malmberg’s Marwencol and the twenty-fifth-anniversary rerelease of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah.
Stuart Klawans
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