Sex and the GOP

The Republican Party is hard-selling its hot Mama Grizzlies. But it's mostly men—not women—who are buying.

Betsy Reed

Democrats: Remember the Ladies!

The party's reluctance to capitalize on its feminist successes makes it look scared—and weak.

Rebecca Traister

Who Stole Feminism?

By focusing on gender alone, institutional feminists opened the door for the Mama Grizzlies.

Jessica Valenti

Herding Donkeys

Grassroots activists and Beltway insiders are fighting for the soul of Obama's Democratic Party.

Ari Berman

Just Say Yes to Prop 19

California's Proposition 19 would make it legal for adults to possess marijuana for personal use. Passing it would signal a major victory in the war against the "war on drugs."

the Editors

Unmasking the GOP Pledge

The GOP "Pledge to America" may lack substance, but it cannot be ignored.

John Nichols

Noted.

D.D. Guttenplan on Ed Miliband, Ari Berman on good news and bad news on campaign finance reform and Joanna Chiu on Obama's outreach to young voters

Various Contributors

Netanyahu’s Freeze Scam

What did Benjamin Netanyahu mean when he said he and Mahmoud Abbas should be prepared to make "painful concessions" for the sake of peace?

Henry Siegman

Slavery & Climate Change

On October 10, more than 7,000 actions in 180 countries will celebrate solutions to climate change in what is expected to be the greatest number of recorded protests in a single day in world history.

Mark Hertsgaard

Gingrich Says Obama Has a Kenyan Anticolonial Worldview, Inherited From His Father (Yes, the Father He Barely Met)

You know better, Newt!

Calvin Trillin

Feminist Mothers, Flapper Daughters?

Young feminists aren't disdaining the movement, they're claiming it—but they want a bigger place in it.

Katha Pollitt

Fighting for Change, Longing for the Sea

Predictable Democratic losses in November aren't what we should fear. The real danger is in a political environment unable to build even the most tenuous bridges across partisan divides.

Melissa Harris-Perry

Slavery & Climate Change

On October 10, more than 7,000 actions in 180 countries will celebrate solutions to climate change in what is expected to be the greatest number of recorded protests in a single day in world history.

Mark Hertsgaard

Fighting for Change, Longing for the Sea

Predictable Democratic losses in November aren't what we should fear. The real danger is in a political environment unable to build even the most tenuous bridges across partisan divides.

Melissa Harris-Perry

A Man of Enthusiasms: On Ben Sonnenberg

Remembering Ben Sonnenberg (1936–2010)—writer, publisher, boulevardier—and his quarterly, Grand Street.

Maria Margaronis

Ink

Jesse Nathan

Shelf Life

Alice Notley's Reason and Other Women; Andrew Joron's Trance Archive; Aaron Kunin's The Sore Throat and Other Poems.

Steve Evans

Founder Fatigue

Jack Rakove's Revolutionaries shows the founders as real people in motion instead of as Olympian gods.

Robin Einhorn

More Than Has Met the Eye

The poems of Janusz Szuber and Ewa Lipska depart from the romanticized view of Polish poetry as a witness to history.

Benjamin Paloff

Letters to the Editor

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