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The Battle for Aleppo

A special report from behind rebel lines. Says one fighter, ‘The hatred in our hearts is growing. I worry that one day it will be bigger than our dreams.’

James Harkin

A Syrian Refugee Wedding

Early marriage and domestic violence in the camps are a fact of life for girls fleeing the civil war.

Lauren Wolfe

John Lewis’s Long Fight for Voting Rights

Nearly five decades after Bloody Sunday in Selma, he’s in the fight of his life, as the Supreme Court threatens to overturn his signature achievement.

Ari Berman

How to Save New Orleans From Sinking

Innovative land management could replenish wetlands and limit flood damage.

Roberta Brandes Gratz

Will Obama End the Long War on Terror?

There are some hopeful signs, including his recent speech at the National Defense University and a new, less hawkish foreign policy team.

Bob Dreyfuss

California’s Great Prison Experiment

Following a landmark court ruling, the state is on deadline to release tens of thousands of people from prison. Is it succeeding?

Tim Stelloh

Hezbollah’s Gamble

The Lebanese militia is now deeply embroiled in the Syrian civil war, which has become part of a regional struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran. 

Mohamad Bazzi

Revealed: Letters From Republicans Seeking Obamacare Money

It’s the height of hypocrisy: They call for repeal of the law but plead for its dollars on behalf of constituents.

Lee Fang

Noted

John Nichols on Frank Lautenberg, Matt Stroud on prison abuse in Pennsylvania, Jon Wiener on unpaid internships in the UK, the editors on the Bradley Manning trial

Various Contributors

Billy Graham, Porn Watcher

That’s right, the evangelist's crusade against depravity took him straight to New York City porn parlors. It looks like he studied their products closely.

Edward Sorel

Adieu, Michele Bachmann

Calvin Trillin

Abortion and Magical Thinking

Anti-choicers think what they believe determines how abortion restrictions are enforced. They’re dangerously wrong.

Jessica Valenti

Rage and Ruin: On the Black Panthers

A new history of the party is too close to its subject, and misses the human drama.

Steve Wasserman

Transient States: On Mary Cassatt

In her printmaking the artist searched for a constantly elusive vision.

Barry Schwabsky

Dirtying White

Why does Benn Steil’s history of Bretton Woods distort the ideas of Harry Dexter White?

James M. Boughton

White Wigs, Black Masks: On Surveillance Pop

The cameras no longer look at us because we’re famous; we’re famous because they look at us to death.

Joshua Clover

Letters

Our Readers and Ken Silverstein

Puzzle No. 3286

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

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto