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Joe Biden Bares His Soul to Stephen Colbert

Joe Biden Bares His Soul to Stephen Colbert Joe Biden Bares His Soul to Stephen Colbert

And Colbert finally breaks through the stifling late-night format.

Sep 11, 2015 / Leslie Savan

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The TPP Will Finish What Chile’s Dictatorship Started The TPP Will Finish What Chile’s Dictatorship Started

Salvador Allende warned against neoliberalism’s disastrous effects just before he was overthrown. He was right to be worried.

Sep 11, 2015 / Greg Grandin

Rafia Zakaria (credit: Jeremy Hogan)

Divided Affections Divided Affections

One writer’s fight against traditions that stifle women in Pakistan.

Sep 10, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Muhammad Idrees Ahmad

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Letters From the September 28–October 5, 2015, Issue Letters From the September 28–October 5, 2015, Issue

Ishmael Reed on life in the Major League; Scott Walker as Nixon’s protégé…

Sep 10, 2015 / Letters / Our Readers and Jesse McCarthy

‘Nation’ Awards ‘Nation’ Awards

The National Association of Black Journalists’ Salute to Excellence Awards honored our special issue, “The Fight for Racial Justice,” as well as columnist Patricia J. Williams for…

Sep 10, 2015 / Editorial / The Editors

Classics of Catholic Economics

Classics of Catholic Economics Classics of Catholic Economics

In this issue, Nathan Schneider writes about Pope Francis’s economics. Here, he recommends five books of Catholic thought that display strikingly similar concerns to those of secul…

Sep 10, 2015 / 5 Books / Nathan Schneider

Billie Holiday and Mister, circa 1946. (Credit: William P. Gottlieb / LOC)

Who Loves You? Who Loves You?

America’s ongoing fascination with Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra.

Sep 10, 2015 / Books & the Arts / David Hajdu

Diagnosis Inc.

Diagnosis Inc. Diagnosis Inc.

You are two oranges shy of sangria You chumpchange in a clackdish You the flensed soldier, egg-runny on the inside You frogging deadline after deadline You caught in a Swiss chokeh…

Sep 10, 2015 / Books & the Arts / James Byrne

Miriam Toews (credit: Carol Loewen)

The Unfathomable Sadness The Unfathomable Sadness

Miriam Toews writes about death and mental illness without sentimentality or sweeping platitudes.

Sep 10, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Lauren Oyler

Saul Bellow (middle) after acknowledging his receipt of the Nobel Prize in Literature, October 22, 1976. (Credit: Charles Knoblock / AP)

The Flow of Life The Flow of Life

Is Saul Bellow the central American novelist since Willa Cather and William Faulkner?

Sep 10, 2015 / Books & the Arts / David Mikics

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