May 24, 2010 Issue

Feature

Needed: A Progressive Story

Instead of an endless platform of policy ideas, progressives need to tell a shared narrative.
Amitai Etzioni
The Push to Isolate Iran

A dirty little secret is that virtually no one thinks sanctions can work as intended.
Bob Dreyfuss
Central Europe’s Right-Wing Populism

The EU’s neoliberal economic reforms have undermined public faith in democratic politics.
Paul Hockenos
What’s Right With Arkansas?

Bill Halter’s challenge to Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln is revving up Razorback progressives, and Halter is now trailing by single digits. Will Tuesday’s primary result in a run-off?
Ari Berman

Editorial

There Will Be Blood

The BP spill is heartbreaking—but it’s only an extreme version of routine accidents and pollution.
The Editors
The Wrath of the Neocon

Why does Congressional candidate Rand Paul offend Dick Cheney so?
John Nichols
Noted.

Deepa Fernandes on the FCC and Net Neutrality, Jon Wiener on Arizona’s ban on ethnic studies; Ari Berman on the woman who may be the first African-American Arkansas sends to Congress
The Editors
Beyond Business as Usual

We can’t simply grow our way out of unemployment.
Juliet Schor
Ten Things You Can Do for Healthcare Reform

What you need to know to make the most of the new healthcare law.
The Editors
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Books & the Arts

No Imagination

Christen Købke painted the presence of things—buildings, faces, skies—as the presence of enigma.
Barry Schwabsky
The Most Happy Fela

Fela! is an ambitious but flawed musical about the Nigerian Afrobeat and anti-establishment icon Fela Anikulapo Kuti.
Franklin Bruno
Job’s Comforters

Science can be disproved only by its own criteria; when it comes to mental illness, its own criteria are often insufficient.
Adam Phillips
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