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Letter to ‘The Nation’ From a Young Radical

Liberalism—including much of what’s published in this magazine—seems well-intentioned but inadequate. The solution lies in the re-emergence of American radicalism.

Bhaskar Sunkara

Make the Road New York: Success Through ‘Love and Agitation’

From stopping wage theft to organizing carwasheros, victories have come from meeting workers where they live.

Jane McAlevey

John Kitzhaber’s Oregon Dream

This third-term governor is rethinking healthcare and education with holistic, community-based programs.

Sasha Abramsky

The Secret Donors Behind the Center for American Progress and Other Think Tanks [Updated on 5/24]

Washington institutions esteemed for their independent scholarship don’t disclose donations from corporations and foreign governments.

Ken Silverstein

Obama’s Assault on the Press

Prosecution of whistleblowers, dragnet seizure of phone records, the threatened criminalization of basic news-gathering—it’s dangerous for the media, and dangerous for democracy.

The Editors

The AP’s Privacy, and Ours

The uproar over government searches of media phone records should not obscure the deeper problem—the law’s failure to protect the privacy of all of us in the digital age.

David Cole

No More Rana Plazas

As fashion's first couple, the Obamas can take a leading role in making sure US companies comply with global standards.

Elizabeth Cline

Guatemala’s Genocide on Trial

The Constitutional Court may have vacated Efraín Ríos Montt’s conviction, but the struggle for justice will continue. And nothing can annul the survivors’ testimony and courage.

Kate Doyle

Dispatches From StudentNation

From student walkouts in Philly and Chicago to union organizing and MOOCs in California, here are the latest reports by our student activist/writers.

StudentNation

Another Week in the White House

Calvin Trillin

Ron Fournier, Doomsayer

Reports of President Obama’s demise turn out to be greatly exaggerated.

Eric Alterman

Hitler’s Classical Architect

Why is Léon Krier defending anew the work of the Third Reich’s master builder?

Michael Sorkin

Shelf Life

Ralph Lemon’s Come Home Charley Patton

Marina Harss

Attacks From Within: On Janet Malcolm

The war between democracy and aristocracy in Janet Malcolm’s Forty-One False Starts.

Mark Oppenheimer

Flappers and Philosophers

Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight

Stuart Klawans

Letters

Our Readers and Patricia J. Williams

Puzzle No. 3285

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

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto