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Why Are Conservatives Trying to Destroy the Voting Rights Act?

A five-decade bipartisan consensus on this key piece of civil rights legislation has collapsed—right when we need its protections more than ever before.

Ari Berman

How Two-Tier Union Contracts Became Labor’s Undoing

Establishing lower pay for new hires, these agreements have undermined union solidarity by opening a gulf between generations.

Louis Uchitelle

Time to Face the Truth About Iran

The Islamic Republic has survived for so long because its basic model is, according to numerous surveys, what a majority of Iranians actually want. 

Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett

The Great Regression

The decline of the progressive income tax and the rise of inequality.

Sam Pizzigati and Chuck Collins

A Path for Immigrants?

To be decent, an immigration reform bill must set out a path to citizenship that isn’t paved with broken glass.

The Editors

Noted

Bryce Covert on domestic workers and immigration reform, Scott Sherman on the fight over fair trade, Francis Reynolds on Upworthy, Katrina vanden Heuvel on the survival of magazines

Various Contributors

One Easy Way to Shine a Light on Dark Money

A former FCC commissioner points out that the agency can simply enforce a campaign finance disclosure requirement that’s already on the books.

Michael J. Copps

Fifty-four Nations Are Implicated in a CIA Torture Scheme

A new report shows that a central element of the Bush administration response to 9/11 was itself to spread terror—on a global scale.

David Cole

The Task Ahead

Calvin Trillin

The Missing Link in Obama’s Liberalism

The president's inaugural address touched all the important bases, except one.

Eric Alterman

Immigration Is Not a Domestic Issue

Whatever reform passes in Washington, poverty in the global South will continue to drive migration.

Gary Younge

Torture and Taboo: On Elaine Scarry

How the work of a literary critic became the proxy for our preoccupation with the horrors of torture.

Samuel Moyn

Shelf Life

Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger’s Jews and Words.

Laura Brahm

Making Strange: On Victor Shklovsky

A Russian novelist’s fight, in life and art, to see the world afresh in all its cruelty and splendor.

Ben Ehrenreich

Letters

Art for change, change for art; Haiti: hotels or houses?

Our Readers and Amy Wilentz

Puzzle No. 3271

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

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto