Librarians Versus the NSA

Your local library is on the front lines against government surveillance.

Zoë Carpenter

How Climate Protection Has Become Today’s Labor Solidarity

Union-led action on climate change has proliferated across the country.

Jeremy Brecher

Inside the New Sanctuary Movement That’s Protecting Immigrants From ICE

Can a network of churches fight deportations?

Puck Lo

Can Bernie Sanders Break Through the Status Quo?

He may have already done it, with his unapologetic defense of social democracy and assaults on the “billionaire class.”

John Nichols

How the Horrors of World War II Lived On

Tens of millions were murdered or expelled from their homes in a whirlwind of ethnic cleansing.

David Nasaw

Snapshot: Malcolm X Across America

Camilo José Vergara

Why I Support PEN’s Courage Award to ‘Charlie Hebdo’

I have a sentimental attachment to journals of political satire as unique and effective instruments of criticism.

Victor Navasky

Black America’s Lost Generation Speaks Up

The teens of the Baltimore riot have never known a reality without crisis. That comes with consequences.

Kai Wright

The Courage of ‘Charlie Hebdo’

The French magazine is blasphemous—and isn’t that an honorable thing to be?

Katha Pollitt

One Christie Aide Pleads Guilty, Two Are Indicted in Bridgegate Case

Calvin Trillin

Inside Out

With its new building, the Whitney Museum is now the best place to see modern and contemporary art in New York City.

Barry Schwabsky

Damage

In our new Gilded Age, the worst are not only full of passionate conviction. They are also damnably clever.

George Scialabba

Crash-and-a-Half

Terese Svoboda

Critical Agents

How J. Edgar Hoover’s paranoid view of literature led him to target African-American writers.

Peter C. Baker

Demon

Kathryn Maris

Financial Pop

Money is sitting around in its sweatpants listlessly spooning peanut butter out of a jar.

Joshua Clover

Letters

Our Readers, Eric Alterman and Annie Sparrow

Puzzle No. 3362

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto