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Afghan Women Face the Future

As the US withdrawal looms, women’s rights advocates plan to carry on their fierce, lonely fight.

Ann Jones

Did the NYPD Entrap Ahmed Ferhani?

The government says he is a terrorist. But his conversations with undercover police tell a different story.

John Knefel

Time for a ‘Right to Vote’ Constitutional Amendment

How many dysfunctional election cycles are we going to endure before we accept the necessity of this reform?

John Nichols

Raising Minnesota

The heat is on big banks and CEOs as labor and community activists band together.

Gabriel Thompson

Bob Woodward’s Tantrum, Bradley Manning’s Torment

As Beltway pundits were captivated by Woodward’s whining over an imaginary threat, the Obama administration was delivering on its real threats to Manning.

The Editors

Supreme Court: Uphold the Voting Rights Act!

Section 5 is as necessary today as it was in 1965, when Alabama state troopers beat freedom marchers in Selma.

Ari Berman

Noted

Roane Carey on the Supreme Court and surveillance, John Nichols on the FCC and dark money, Catherine Defontaine on same-sex marriage in France, the editors on Jeremy Scahill’s Donald Windham–Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize

Various Contributors

Why Are Democrats So Defeatist?

It’s because they are so beholden to their big-money contributors that they can’t fight the GOP even on issues that they know have overwhelming public support.

Ralph Nader

A Personal Application of Sequestration

Calvin Trillin

Who’s Afraid of Sheryl Sandberg?

Feminists were quick—too quick—to question the Facebook COO's motives for writing Lean In, her self-help manifesto.

Katha Pollitt

Darkness Lit From Within: On A.B. Yehoshua

The soul-destroying weariness in A.B. Yehoshua’s stories seems as old as time itself—and unique to contemporary Israel.

Vivian Gornick

Endless Representation: On Giorgio Griffa and Thomas Nozkowski

Even when painting is abstract, it never ceases to be concerned with decoration.

Barry Schwabsky

Jellyfish or Fossil? On Louis Agassiz

Frustrated, stubborn, committed to bad science, was Louis Agassiz anything other than a laughingstock?

Brenda Wineapple

Shelf Life

Robert Burley’s The Disappearance of Darkness, Harvey Wang’s From Darkroom to Daylight.

Lucy McKeon

Exchange: Adrienne Rich—Fact Check

Our Readers and Ange Mlinko

Puzzle No. 3274

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

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto