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The Search for BP’s Oil

As the gulf is declared “safe,” scientists look deep in the sea for evidence of lasting damage. Plus, watch a video from Klein’s investigation.

Naomi Klein

Debating ‘Citizens United’

Was the Supreme Court’s infamous decision a desecration, or only what the Constitution requires? A First Amendment scholar and civil liberties advocate debate.

Floyd Abrams and Burt Neuborne

Russ Feingold Speaks Out

The former senator talks about money and politics, connecting with voters in the age of mass media and his future in public life.

John Nichols

Tragedy in Arizona

The shootings underscore that a strong social compact is the only real route to safety.

The Editors

Noted.

John Nichols on Tom DeLay, Isabel Macdonald on donor aid to Haiti

Various Contributors

Green Energy Opponents Are the Real Job Killers

The American economy needs a clean tech transformation.

David Fenton

US: Wrong on Honduras

Obama’s Honduras policy is already dangerous. And with Republicans in control of the House, it may get worse.

Dana Frank

Could a Serbian Heart Have Saved Richard Holbrooke?

The diplomat was spared the annoyance of seeing one of his best-known political creations accused of supervising the killing of captives in order to slice out their organs for transplants.

Alexander Cockburn

Jared Loughner’s Glock: Weapon of Mass Destruction

Has it really come to this: an uphill battle to ban a gun that has no purpose except to kill thirty-three people before anyone can stop you?

Katha Pollitt

House Republicans Plan Symbolic Repeal Vote on the Healthcare Law

"We’ll show the poor."

Calvin Trillin

Empty Rooms: On Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss’s Great House swings from the evocative to the overcharged.

Alexandra Schwartz

Literature and Exile

Books are the only homeland of the true writer, books that may sit on shelves or in the memory.

Roberto Bolaño

Vanishing Points: Language Poetry Remembered

The Grand Piano is a highbrow Friends—a collective history of the early years of Language poetry.

Barry Schwabsky

Little Pick Eye

Joshua Beckman

Letters

Our Readers

Puzzle No. 1617

This puzzle originally appeared in the January 31, 1976, issue.

Frank W. Lewis