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It’s Time for Debt Forgiveness, American-Style

The nation’s largest banks are methodically harvesting the last possible pound of flesh from millions of homeowners. We should put a stop to it.

William Greider

OWS: Ideas From the 99 percent

The OWS movement is already a success for having raised the issues explored in the articles presented here.

Various Contributors

OWS Revives the Struggle for Economic Equality

Inspired by struggles overseas and in the past, the protests have brought the wealth gap back to the center of political debate.
 

Sam Pizzigati

Race and Occupy Wall Street

“Is OWS diverse enough?” is not the right question. The real challenge is ensuring the movement has a racial justice agenda.

Rinku Sen

How to Be a 1 Percenter

To secure their privilege, the richest Americans resort to a range of maneuvers beyond the evasion of taxes and financial regulation.

George Zornick

Occupy College

The crushing burden of student debt has shattered the American dream for a whole generation. They want their future back.

Tamara Draut

The Costs of Wall Street Greed

The 99 percent have been footing the bill for too long. It’s time for the financial industry to pick up its own tab.

Sarah Anderson

Why Occupy Wall Street Has Left Washington Behind

The radical message of these protests is that the crisis we face cannot be addressed through the political process.

Gordon Lafer

Iraq: End of a Debacle

It was an ignominious end to America’s worst foreign policy disaster since the Vietnam War, and the costs, for both Iraq and the United States, will be felt for some time.

The Editors

Libya After Qaddafi

By ignoring the UN Security Council resolution’s mandate authorizing intervention, NATO may have destroyed the prospects for future legitimate uses of the principle of “responsibility to protect.”

Richard Falk

Noted.

John Nichols on Ohio Voters v. John Kasich, Jin Zhao on Steve Jobs’s Legacy in China, Dana Frank on Wikileaks Honduras

Various Contributors

The GOP Plan That Could Cost Obama the Election

A Republican proposal in Pennsylvania would change the way electoral votes are counted—and the results could spell Obama’s defeat in 2012.

Rob Richie

The Body Acoustic

The Occupy movement is not a sexual revolution. But in a society organized for alienation, it has made human contact its sword and its shield.

JoAnn Wypijewski

MSM to Liberals: ‘Ewww!’

From the Times to NPR, the so-called liberal media has a phobia of liberals.

Eric Alterman

Mu-Mu ♥ Condi

Calvin Trillin

This Is Just to Say: On William Carlos Williams

A new biography shortchanges the poetic achievement of William Carlos Williams.

James Longenbach

Shelf Life

Out of the Vinyl Deeps catalogs Ellen Willis’s pop years.

Joshua Clover

Solving for X: On George F. Kennan

Unwrapping the enigma of the career diplomat who wrote the Long Telegram.

Andrew J. Bacevich

Just as They Are

The forty-ninth edition of the New York Film Festival.

Stuart Klawans

Letters

Letter from prison; Keynes takes pains to ensure gains; living at the Post Office

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Puzzle No. 3213

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto