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Vouchers: They’re Baaaaaack!

As thirty-six states contemplate privatization measures, public schools are on the defensive.

Peter Schrag

The Bank Lobby Steps Up Its Attack on Elizabeth Warren

The new consumer protection bureau’s mission is to make it easier for consumers to understand financial fine print. So why are bankers so scared?

Ari Berman

Obama’s Russia ‘Reset’: Another Lost Opportunity?

Obama’s celebrated “reset” of US-Russia relations is limited and unstable. A fundamental transformation requires bold leadership and a full rethinking of Washington’s triumphalist attitudes.

Stephen F. Cohen

Medicare for All!

The lesson Democrats should take from the backlash to Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan? Voters do want government running their healthcare system.

The Editors

‘The Nation’ and WikiHaiti

Leaked documents provide an extraordinary glimpse of US maneuvering in Haiti from before the 2004 coup through the devastating 2010 earthquake.

The Editors

‘Cruel & Unusual’ Prisons

Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, talks to Liliana Segura about the Supreme Court ruling on overcrowding in California prisons.

Liliana Segura

Noted.

George Zornick on a turning tide on Afghanistan, Dana Frank on Zelaya’’s return to Honduras and Jeremy Scahill on the death of Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad

Various Contributors

Serbia’s War Criminal

Ratko Mladic may face justice—but what about the Serbs who voted for the politics of nationalism, hatred and war?

Slavenka Drakulic

Are We Worried About Storm’s Identity—or Our Own?

Americans love to say “We’re all just people.” So why are we so bent out of shape by not knowing a child’s gender?

Patricia J. Williams

The Problem of Republican Idiots

The liars and lunatics serve as a smoke screen for the conservative war on the poor and the middle class.

Eric Alterman

Contemplating the Republican Presidential Field, Late-Night Comics Lament

Calvin Trillin

From Cairo to Córdoba: The Story of the Cairo Geniza

Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole’s Sacred Trash offers a precious meditation on how the discovery of hidden hoards of history can transform our worlds.

David Nirenberg

An Unfinished Tradition: On Édouard Manet

Édouard Manet has become a popular painter, yet he remains a difficult and unpredictable one.

Barry Schwabsky

Dance with the Devil

Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life; David Balding’s One Lucky Elephant; Kristen Wiig’s Bridesmaids; Todd Phillips’s The Hangover Part II.

Stuart Klawans

Onderdunk Road

Daniel Bouchard

Letters

Our Readers and Jackson Lears

Our New Puzzlers’ Debut: Puzzle No. 3197

Try your hand at the first cryptic crossword by our brilliant new setters!

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto