Eric Holder’s Mixed Record

The attorney general was a champion of civil rights—but not civil liberties.

the Editors

7 GOP Governors Who May Lose Re-Election

Their extremist policies have made them so vulnerable that corporate America is scrambling to save them.

John Nichols

Minority Report

Michelle Chen

Comix Nation

Matt Bors

Snapshot: The Umbrella Revolution

Vincent Yu

A Tale of One City by David Brooks

For one-percenters like the Times columnist, city life has never been better.

Eric Alterman

Run, Karen, Run!

Chicago Teachers Union leader Karen Lewis is eyeing Mayor Emanuel’s job.

Gary Younge

The Coalition Against ISIS

Calvin Trillin

A Theater Without Qualities

Immersive theater has no real style—except to fetishize its look.

Ricky D’Ambrose

China’s New Frontiers

How Africa and China’s own borderlands became the center of Beijing’s new empire.

Audrea Lim

Poetry and Catastrophe

By privileging historical catastrophe, a new poetry anthology narrows the definition of art.

Benjamin Paloff

Extinction Pop

Choreographed for maximum appeal, pop culture likes to say yes. History is made by those who say no.

Joshua Clover

Letters

ICE age… “stupid stuff” of empire… gum and shadow-casters…

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Puzzle No. 3339

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Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto