After the Midterms: Time to Fight Back

Opposing bad policy and bad compromises isn’t enough. We need new thinking and new approaches.

the Editors

Why Is Cuomo Leaving Wall Street Cash on the Table?

A little-known tax is already on the books.

Lenore Palladino and Sean McElwee

Can Big Government Solve the Mysteries of Autism and Alzheimer’s Disease?

Why we need Obama’s BRAIN Initiative.

Cori Bargmann

Snapshot: The End of Ebola

Akintunde Akinleye

Congrats, Pro-Lifers, You Won! Now I Have Just a Few Questions for You

What would your abortion compromise look like? What will you do for pregnant women who can’t afford a child? And more.

Katha Pollitt

The Ebola Quarantine Isn’t Just Stupid—It’s Deadly

Of all the panicked and irrational reactions to Ebola, the outrageous treatment of volunteers like Kaci Hickox and Ryan Boyko is the most dangerous.

Richard Kim

By the Way

Obamacare Loses Power as a Campaign Issue
                  —Headline, The New York Times

Calvin Trillin

A Minor Complaint

Akhil Sharma’s Family Life is not a model minority story.

Toral Gajarawala

Apostles of Growth

Capitalism’s newest critics offer a groundbreaking account of slavery, but does their economic history add up?

Timothy Shenk

Some Like It Hot

Sarah Trudgeon

Puerto Rico: Land of the Noble/Valiant Lord!

Sarah Trudgeon

Haterz Gonna Hate?

There are limits to what the law can do to police cyberabuse.

Martha C. Nussbaum

Calculators and Butterflies

Italo Calvino’s Complete Cosmicomics thrives on the tension between ideas and art.

Aaron Thier

Billboards

Sarah Trudgeon

Shelf Life

Insurrections of the Mind thinks insurrections ought to happen only in the mind.

Richard Kreitner

Calculators and Butterflies

Italo Calvino’s Complete Cosmicomics thrives on the tension between ideas and art.

Aaron Thier

Letters

War on whistleblowers… outsourcing pollution…

Our Readers

Puzzle No. 3344

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Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto