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Trapped on the European Fringe

Caught in debt, being fed the poison of austerity, the victims of Europe’s crisis seek a path out.

Andy Robinson

Blowback in Somalia

How US proxy wars helped create a militant Islamist threat.

Jeremy Scahill

Cuomo Fails Public Schools

While progressives protest the budget-slashing of Tea Party governors like Wisconsin’s Scott Walker, are Democrats like New York’s Andrew Cuomo getting a free pass?

Billy Easton

Noted.

John Nichols on taxing Wall Street, Mike Elk on a win against the megabanks and Katelyn Belyus on subscribing to The Nation while incarcerated

Various Contributors

Attica at 40

Four decades after the bloodiest prison massacre in US history, we have yet to accept the basic fact that prisoners are human.

Liliana Segura

Go Big, Mr. President

Four things Obama can push in his speech tonight to get America back on track.

The Editors

Secrets of the Keystone XL Pipeline

Our country has no need for the Keystone pipeline extension.

Alexander Cockburn

The Poor: Still Here, Still Poor

We keep hearing about how the recession wounded the middle class. But the poor are hurting much worse.

Katha Pollitt

So Why Be So Hard on Vermont?

Calvin Trillin

Visions and Revisions: On T.S. Eliot

Two volumes of T.S. Eliot’s letters elucidate how the momentous achievements of his art were determined by moments of awful daring.

James Longenbach

Uncertainty and Anxiety: On Khrushchev’s Thaw

Why did different segments of the Soviet population experience Khrushchev’s reforms in radically different ways?
 

Benjamin Nathans

Shelf Life: On Socrates

Bettany Hughes’s biography of Socrates is a book that Socrates himself, on a mean day, would have torn to shreds.

Emily Wilson

Break Their Hearts: On Chris Bachelder

In his novel Abbott Awaits, Chris Bachelder employs his comic wackiness to great effect.

Aaron Thier

Visions and Revisions: On T.S. Eliot

Two volumes of T.S. Eliot’s letters elucidate how the momentous achievements of his art were determined by moments of awful daring.

James Longenbach

Letters

Words as weapons, austerity in the eurozone, Francis Perkins, stop the foreclosures

Our Readers

Puzzle No. 3206

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto