The Thinking Person’s Reader’s Digest The Thinking Person’s Reader’s Digest
Lapham's Quarterly makes its debut, seeking to explain the present with illuminations from the past.
Nov 20, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Evan Cornog
Letters Letters
ALBERT SHANKER'S UFT
New Haven, Conn.
Nov 20, 2007 / Our Readers and Thomas J. Sugrue
Hurricane Katrina Blows Apart New Orleans Politics Hurricane Katrina Blows Apart New Orleans Politics
For almost a quarter century, New Orleans government reflected the racial makeup of the city. As such, the city council had an African-American majority. Not anymore. Anyone loo...
Nov 20, 2007 / John Nichols
Meet The Press and Leave it to the Girls. Meet The Press and Leave it to the Girls.
Whether to be cheered or downcast? That's the question. TV wasn't born a male preserve, it's just grown up that way. I was thinking about that this weekend as I watched NBC celebr...
Nov 19, 2007 / Laura Flanders
Luxury Grub Luxury Grub
What's so great about designer chocolate if it's infested with cockroach droppings? As the economic widens, rich and poor still occupy the same food chain.
Nov 19, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich
Fighting Poverty in CT Fighting Poverty in CT
At 37 years of age, Deborah Glover says she had lived a middle-class life and never knew poverty. That all changed when she had a car accident, and as a single mother with three ...
Nov 19, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
As the World Burns As the World Burns
Uncomfortable questions nobody wants to raise about the worldwide drought.
Nov 18, 2007 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt
Confronting the Global Timber Barons Confronting the Global Timber Barons
From a church in a rugged rural parish in Honduras, Father Andres Tamayo leads a grassroots movement to protect dwindling timberlands. Bills introduced in the US Congress might hel...
Nov 17, 2007 / Feature / James North
Gay Muslims Unveiled in ‘Jihad for Love’ Gay Muslims Unveiled in ‘Jihad for Love’
Parvez Sharma's new documentary chronicles the experiences of gay and lesbian Muslims in seven countries, as they struggle to align their sexuality with their religion.
Nov 17, 2007 / Feature / Rashi Kesarwani
Condoleezza Rice’s Middle East Photo-Op Condoleezza Rice’s Middle East Photo-Op
The American-sponsored Middle East peace conference (or meeting or get-together) expected to be held in Annapolis , Maryland later this month has more to do with providing Secreta...
Nov 17, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel