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Mitt Romney’s Neocon War Cabinet

Judging by his advisers, Romney would embrace Bush’s unilateral interventionism and massive military budgets.

Ari Berman

Breivik’s Monstrous Dream—and Why It Failed

As his trial unfolds, Norway exorcises some of its xenophobic demons.

Moustafa Bayoumi

Roger Williams, America’s First Rebel

The founder of Providence was the first to see that religious freedom, and separation of church and state, was intimately connected with political freedom.
 

John M. Barry

End Student Debt!

Total debt now exceeds $1 trillion. We should write off existing debt and make public college free.

The Editors

Noted

George Zornick on Al Armendariz and the EPA, John Nichols on Michigan’s Emergency Manager law, Katrina vanden Heuvel on Russia’s Pussy Riot case

Various Contributors

Dial M for Murdoch

British investigations reveal the shocking extent of his shady tactics. Can we really believe he hasn’t used the same methods here?

D.D. Guttenplan

Is Walmart Losing Its Bipartisan Luster?

In the wake of the Mexican bribery scandal, liberals who had been wooed by the giant retailer are having second thoughts.

Liza Featherstone

Newt Departs From the Island of Poliwonks

Calvin Trillin

Marine Le Pen and the False Specter of European Fascism

Americans who worry about dangerous trends overseas should take a look at warning signs much closer to home.

Alexander Cockburn

Women: Occupy the Left

Why is it so hard to understand that women’s rights are an economic issue?

Katha Pollitt

Marine Le Pen and the False Specter of European Fascism

Americans who worry about dangerous trends overseas should take a look at warning signs much closer to home.

Alexander Cockburn

Empty and Full: On Stanley Whitney and Jacqueline Humphries

When is a little more than enough in a painting?

Barry Schwabsky

Democracy and Education: On Andrew Delbanco

In College, Andrew Delbanco explains the reversal of the postwar project of democratic expansion in higher education.

Richard Wolin

Leviticus Again

Yannai

All in the Family: On Thomas Frank

Thomas Frank’s Pity the Billionaire is confused about the connection between the Tea Party and conservative cultural populism.

Steve Fraser

Letters

Feedback on the April 23 issue: praise for Elizabeth Warren, Jonathan Schell and Katniss Everdeen, and an Italian lesson for Barry Schwabsky.

Our Readers and Barry Schwabsky

Puzzle No. 3238

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

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto