In Defense of Deficits

A big deficit-reduction program would destroy the economy two years into the Great Crisis.

James K. Galbraith

Naji Hamdan’s Nightmare

An American auto-parts businessman says he was tortured in the UAE--with US complicity. 

Anna Louie Sussman

The Wrong Kind of Green

The Nature Conservancy has acknowledged the oil leak in the Gulf, but failed to mention BP. Could it be because the Conservancy has close ties to the oil company? Johann Hari reports on the relationship between conservation groups and corporate cash.

Johann Hari

Noted.

Stuart Klawans on radical filmmaker Leo Hurwitz; John Nichols on the primary fight for Blanche Lincoln's Senate seat.

the Editors

New Left Review at 50

The journal's sustained critique of neoliberalism remains indispensable.

Jon Wiener

Swords Into Solar Panels

The Obama administration wants to push holistic solutions to national problems--and retooling manufacturers of military hardware into purveyors of solar technology is one.

Miriam Pemberton

The Contractor Scofflaws

Obama is on the brink of bringing significant reforms for workers to government contractors.

William Greider

The Moyers Legacy

Bill Moyers's emphasis on dissenting views must live on at PBS.

the Editors

Global Women: Good News, Bad News

What makes for the most gender-egalitarian country in the world?

Katha Pollitt

Move Over, Axis of Evil

The petite bourgeoisie are legitimately pissed off.

Alexander Cockburn

The Legislative Agenda of Congressional Republicans

Harking back to the Reagan years.

Calvin Trillin

Noted.

Stuart Klawans on radical filmmaker Leo Hurwitz; John Nichols on the primary fight for Blanche Lincoln's Senate seat.

the Editors

Vision or Blindness?

In Jacques Audiard's <i>A Prophet</i>, clairvoyance has its limits.

Stuart Klawans

Heroic Impatience

The past was one single catastrophe to the Baader-Meinhof Gang, and acts of violence the only perceived exit.

Diego Gambetta

Dear K

Mark McMorris

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Frank W. Lewis