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The Republican Playbook for Cutting Anti-Poverty Programs

Paul Ryan’s poverty plan uses old tricks to make deep cuts.

Mike Konczal and Bryce Covert

Mitch McConnell’s 47% Moment

In remarks made at a secret Koch donor conference and leaked to The Nation, the Senate minority leader doubles down on obstructionism and crony capitalism.

The Editors

Why Congress Must Impose Limits on the Use of Force in Iraq

If we don’t act now, constitutional restraints on presidential warmaking will be eviscerated.

Robert Naiman

Will Scotland Choose Independence?

Fed up with Thatcherite and New Labour politics, Scots have grown farther apart from their southern neighbors.

D.D. Guttenplan

‘Unhiring’ Steven Salaita

David Palumbo-Liu

Comix Nation

Matt Bors

Snapshot: Desperate Crossing

Antonio Parrinello

Why Firing David Gregory Won’t Change ‘Meet the Press’

The Sunday classic is chasing ratings off a cliff.

Eric Alterman

U.S. May Find Itself Allied With Assad and Iranian Ayatollahs

Calvin Trillin

A Long Series of Uncertainties

Trials and tribulations along the migrant trail from Central America to the United States.

Adam Goodman

Jokowi’s Way

Can Indonesia’s charismatic new president solve the slow-burning crises of the world’s third-largest democracy?

Thomas Meaney and Saskia Schäfer

Headphones

Maureen McLane

The View

How Michael Bloomberg turned architecture into a sixty-four-ounce Coke.

Michael Sorkin

Ferguson’s Anthem

How “Fuck the Police” came to narrate the town’s humiliations and violations.

Joshua Clover

Letters

Richmond, a work in progress… romancing Palestine… porking the wuzzle… FSM 50th anniversary…

Our Readers and Steve Early

Puzzle No. 3335

And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto