Ending Sanctions on the Taliban: A Good Idea Ending Sanctions on the Taliban: A Good Idea
And drawing a bright line: the Taliban is not Al Qaeda.
Jun 8, 2011 / Bob Dreyfuss
Senate Report: US Afghan Aid Is Unsustainable Senate Report: US Afghan Aid Is Unsustainable
Maybe you guessed it already, but the billions we're pouring into rebuilding Afghanistan aren't working.
Jun 8, 2011 / Bob Dreyfuss
Slide Show: 16 Bold Ideas for a New Economy Slide Show: 16 Bold Ideas for a New Economy
A slide show of ways we can mend our broken system.
Jun 8, 2011 / The Nation
Nation Conversations: Mark Sorkin and William Greider on Reimagining Capitalism Nation Conversations: Mark Sorkin and William Greider on Reimagining Capitalism
The political and economic system is broken. It's time we step back and rethink how we can make capitalism work for us.
Jun 8, 2011 / The Nation
Nation Conversations: Barbara Dudley on Oregon’s Efforts to Create a State Bank Nation Conversations: Barbara Dudley on Oregon’s Efforts to Create a State Bank
How Oregon is attempting to follow in North Dakota's footsteps by pushing forward a bill to establish a publicly-owned bank.
Jun 8, 2011 / The Nation
How Would You Reimagine Capitalism? How Would You Reimagine Capitalism?
Send us your proposal on how we can reinvent American capitalism.
Jun 8, 2011 / The Nation
Little Churches Everywhere: California’s Evangelical Conservatism Little Churches Everywhere: California’s Evangelical Conservatism
As contradictory as the gospel truths of California's digerati are the dogmas of West Coast evangelicalism, a melding of Jefferson and Jesus.
Jun 7, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Chris Lehmann
A Test of Loyalties: The Exiles of the American Revolution A Test of Loyalties: The Exiles of the American Revolution
Between a fifth and a third of the white population remained loyal to Britain in 1776. Why?
Jun 7, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas Guyatt
Puzzle No. 3198 Puzzle No. 3198
ACROSS 1 Naan , say, acquired with rent money? (9) 6 Two companies meet with a hot drink (5) 9 Tea is liquor’s twin (7) 10 Gloomier pass in boggy terrain (7) 11 Transported unwrapped sketch (5) 12 Mellowed product from an athletic duck? (5,4) 13 Deviate from answer vehemently (6) 14 Ray, at night, tossing a bone when Mother is around (8) 16 Celebrity: “My urinal is disgusting!” (8) 18 Hunky guy meets nymph in workshop (6) 20 Retires unexpectedly, gets booed (4,2,3) 23 Quality of being observant, like Mondrian? (5) 24 Mutant locust devours one eye doctor (7) 25 Engineer antes up payment “in the high two figures” (7) 26 Vehicle was low (5) 27 What a builder might know: where to find “complain” and “fish” in the dictionary (9) DOWN 1 Reckons fruit with deceptive ruse (7) 2 Gold stitching covers double strand to an excessive degree (2,7) 3 E is for “Eroica” (10,5) 4 Seven, plus one soldier in the ascendant (5) 5 Tenor’s mask concealing hint of grin (7) 6 Mathematical construct to do an air traffic controller’s job (10,5) 7 Two Greek characters discussed Middle Eastern city (5) 8 In the morning hours, friend is AWOL, for instance (7) 15 Nest lured cuckoo, and this is what emerged (3,6) 16 Space for French newlywed? (7) 17 Mechanical rifle with bit of occasional twitch (7) 19 Strange—a bishop’s domain is mentioned in ancient poem (7) 21 Furnish a witty quote online (5) 22 Perform for each druggie (5) ACROSS 1 & 29 FRANK (candid) + L (styLish) + EWIS (wise anag.) 4 EXP + LOITER 9 anag. 10 & 12 T(HEN)EXT + GENE + RATION 11 [s]TORE 13 & 18 2 defs. 15 “my asthma” 17 SPHI + N + X (ship anag.) 22 END O(F AN) ERA (read one anag.) 24 init. letters 26 “nude eel” 27 anag. 28 MISS TATER DOWN 1 F + RANT + IC 2 AFTER(MAT)H (father anag.) 3 hidden 4 EL (G)RECO (Creole anag.) 5 2 defs. 6 anag. 7 anag. 8 hidden 14 anag. 16 S(CAR)ECROW (cowers anag.) 17 anag. 19 HA + RDIER (Rider anag.) 20 DON + A + TES (rev.) 21 ANKL + ET (lank anag.) 23 D + OWNS 25 hidden
Jun 7, 2011 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Whimbrel Whimbrel
Kin to the limpkin, she whimpers when primping, wears rimless eyeglasses for skimming her primer on swimming. She splashes through grasses amassing her ration of shrimp, and stands, a fat ampersand, on the sandpaper strand making eyes at a snipe, fanning the passions of the sandpiper nations.
Jun 7, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Sidney Wade