What Obama Has to Do to End the GOP Shutdown What Obama Has to Do to End the GOP Shutdown

And put an end to Republicans’ hostage-taking once and for all.

Oct 9, 2013 / The Editors

Janet Yellen as Federal Reserve Chair Is a Good Start… Janet Yellen as Federal Reserve Chair Is a Good Start…

But there are other openings on the board. Here’s a list of smart, independent-minded candidates who can fill them.

Oct 9, 2013 / William Greider

Was Your Grandmother a Communist?—and Five More Questions for Jonathan Lethem Was Your Grandmother a Communist?—and Five More Questions for Jonathan Lethem

Lethem’s new novel, Dissident Gardens, involves three generations of left-wing activists in New York City.

Oct 9, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

Laramie Revisited: The Myth of Matthew Laramie Revisited: The Myth of Matthew

A new book by Stephen Jimenez tells a very different story about the killing of Matthew Shepard by Aaron McKinney.

Oct 9, 2013 / Books & the Arts / JoAnn Wypijewski

Health Care Reformageddon Health Care Reformageddon

Oct 9, 2013 / Tom Tomorrow

The GOP’s Southern Strategy The GOP’s Southern Strategy

As the Republican Party becomes whiter and more Southern, obstructionist tactics are inevitable.

Oct 9, 2013 / Ari Berman

President Obama and ‘The Onion’ Unite on Changing the Redskins’ Name President Obama and ‘The Onion’ Unite on Changing the Redskins’ Name

President Obama told AP he’d “think about changing” any name “that was offending a sizable group of people.”

Oct 9, 2013 / Dave Zirin

The Notorious Life of a Nineteenth-Century Abortionist The Notorious Life of a Nineteenth-Century Abortionist

Novelist Kate Manning richly reimagines Madame Restell as a defender of women from the horrors of poverty, male privilege and their own physiology.

Oct 9, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt

Snapshot Snapshot

A member of the Ansar Dimachk Brigade, which operates as part of the Free Syrian Army, using an iPad in preparing to fire a homemade mortar in the village of Jobar, on the outskirts of Damascus, September 15.

Oct 9, 2013 / Mohamed Abdullah

Explaining Ted Cruz’s Behavior Explaining Ted Cruz’s Behavior

Does he have a plan that the others can’t see? Is this man as smart as the devil? Or is he, to put it in carpenter’s terms, A guy who’s a bubble off level?

Oct 9, 2013 / Column / Calvin Trillin