Where Have All the Lobbyists Gone?

On paper, the influence-peddling business is drying up. But lobbying money is flooding into Washington, DC, like never before. What’s going on?

Lee Fang

What’s Next for the Moral Monday Movement?

This multiracial, multi-issue progressive coalition is not only remobilizing in North Carolina—its model of activism is now spreading all over the South.

Ari Berman

What’s Wrong With the Comcast/Time Warner Merger

If it’s not blocked, a single corporation will be able to dictate digital communications and media content for decades to come.

the Editors

Why Woody Allen Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt

A society hot for punishment is quick to play judge and jury. But there’s nothing feminist or radical about pretending to know the truth.

JoAnn Wypijewski

Snapshot: Syria’s Double Refugees

SANA

Whodunit? Liberals!

From celebrity deaths to the crisis of the middle class, it’s all their fault.

Eric Alterman

Freelance Stop-and-Shoot

The murder of Jordan Davis—like that of Renisha McBride, Trayvon Martin and so many others—reflects a racist culture in which the black body is considered fair game.

Gary Younge

The Legacy of LBJ

Calvin Trillin

Whistler’s Battles

Ambitious beneath his pose of indolence, James McNeill Whistler was the most contradictory of artists.

Barry Schwabsky

Big MoMA’s House

MoMA’s new expansion plans represent avant-gardism at its most deracinated.

Michael Sorkin

Political Theaters

From Yes Minister and The Thick of It to Veep, Scandal and House of Cards, British political satire and its American progeny reveal growing disillusionment with political irreality.

Michelle Orange

Letters

Hunger games?… Snowden: necessity defense… “permission to fail”… “Czars & Samovars” redux…

Our Readers and Barry Schwabsky

Puzzle No. 3315

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

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto