May 26, 2014 Issue

Cover art by: photo by the Associated Press

Feature

How to Shrink Inequality

It’s not inevitable. Here are ten practical steps to reverse the growing trend.

Robert B. Reich
Elizabeth Warren Explains Why She Ran for Office

And vows to fight for people who got screwed by Wall Street.
Elizabeth Warren
University Presses Under Fire

How the Internet and slashed budgets have endangered one of higher education’s most important institutions.
Scott Sherman
My Memories of Gabriel García Márquez

What more could a young writer want than to spend hours and hours with the greatest author alive?

Ariel Dorfman

Column

Obama’s Pundit Problem

Critics like Maureen Dowd of the Times live in an Oz-like dream world.

Eric Alterman
Condoleezza Rice Withdraws as Rutgers Commencement Speaker in Face of Protest Over Her Promotion of the War in Iraq

Calvin Trillin
The Oklahoma Way of Death

The “botched” execution of Clayton Lockett should shatter the illusion that lethal injection is neither cruel nor unusual.

Richard Kim

Books & the Arts

University Presses Under Fire

How the Internet and slashed budgets have endangered one of higher education’s most important institutions.
Scott Sherman
My Memories of Gabriel García Márquez

What more could a young writer want than to spend hours and hours with the greatest author alive?

Ariel Dorfman
Hungary and the End of Politics

How Victor Orbán launched a constitutional coup and created a one-party state.

Kim Lane Scheppele
Antiquity Too

Christian Wiman
They Have No Graves

Catholic Innocence meets Jewish Experience after the Holocaust in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida.

Stuart Klawans
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