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Feature
How Socialists Built America
The history of our nation has many rich and vibrant hues—some of them red.
John Nichols
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What Makes Life Good?
Measurements of economic growth fail to capture many facets of well-being.
Martha C. Nussbaum
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The Sarkozy-Stiglitz Commission’s Quest to Get Beyond GDP
The Sarkozy commission advanced new ways of measuring progress—but hurdles remain.
Eyal Press
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Editorial
How Climate Science Was Saved—For Now
When it looked like Obama might cave to the Republican attack on the EPA, the outcry from environmental organizations was swift. And it worked.
Mark Hertsgaard
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Noted.
Kate Murphy reports on where your taxes really go; Adam Federman asks how green natural gas really is.
Various Contributors
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The Goldstone Affair
Despite a “reconsideration” on the part of its author, the Goldstone Report remains as vital as ever for understanding the 2008-2009 Gaza conflict.
Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner and Philip Weiss
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Genocide Trial in Kansas
Since the US government prosecuted Nazi war crimes, there have been no criminal prosecutions of genocide here in America—until now.
John S. Friedman
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Obama’s ‘Shared Sacrifice’ Hits the Poor and Middle-Class Hardest
For every $1 raised by closing tax loopholes for wealthy Americans, Obama proposes $2 in spending cuts.
The Editors
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Column
Rupert Murdoch’s Watergate
An invasion of privacy scandal threatens the careers to two of Murdoch’s top executives and the apparent heir the News Corp. empire.
Alexander Cockburn
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After Budget Showdown, Women Under the Bus
Planned Parenthood’s funding may have survived, but Congress still trampled on women’s rights.
Katha Pollitt
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Books & the Arts
How Socialists Built America
The history of our nation has many rich and vibrant hues—some of them red.
John Nichols
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Watered Whiskey: James Baldwin’s Uncollected Writings
The Cross of Redemption tells the story of James Baldwin as a working writer: casual, lax and preachy, but also honest, angry and brilliant.
Elias Altman
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History and Heartbreak: The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg wanted it all: books and music, sex and art, evening walks and the revolution. Her lover, Leo Jogiches, told her this was nonsense.
Vivian Gornick
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Before the Flood: Information Before the Information Age
Ann Blair’s Too Much to Know explains how across the centuries the profusion of information has always inspired readers to invent shortcuts to knowledge.
Paula Findlen
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Letters
History and Heartbreak: The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg wanted it all: books and music, sex and art, evening walks and the revolution. Her lover, Leo Jogiches, told her this was nonsense.
Vivian Gornick
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 1628
From the April 17, 1976, issue. Voting has closed for Frank Lewis’s replacement. Winner TBA.
Frank W. Lewis