The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Culture

Prairie Style Romance

Though Nancy Horan takes great liberty in imagining intimate scenes between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick Cheney--of which there is no evidence--Loving Frank ultimately rests on historical record

Achy Obejas

Dispatch

El Salvadors Patriot Act

Last year the government adopted a "Special Law Against Acts of Terrorism," which gives police and judges leeway to clear the streets of demonstrators and imposes mandatory sentences of 60 years for what was once considered a freedom of expression

Jacob Wheeler

The Carried Interest Loophole

Brian Cook

Pakistan detains lawyers, allegations of torture surface

Sanhita SinhaRoy

Comics

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Mikhaela B. Reid

Feature

Funding Iraqs Citizen Soldiers

Is the Pentagon's neighborhood watch strategy protecting Iraqis or stoking the civil war?

Jessica Pupovac

Norman Mailer Dead At 84

Jarrett

Comics

potter

August Pollak

Feature

The New Road to Serfdom

Over the course of 500 pages in The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein documents the moments of chaos and disruption that allow a small coterie of experts to swoop in and administer what's invariably called "bitter medicine," "painful reforms" or "shock therapy"

Christopher Hayes

Comics

schipveto

Mikhaela B. Reid

Viewpoint

Biofuels Are No Cure for Climate Change

Don't judge a climate cure by its color. Give it a rub, and you'll find that the term 'biofuels' is actually obscuring an insidious reality

Megan Tady

Comics

schip

Mikhaela B. Reid

Dispatch

Lobbying for Cancer

Corporations are co-opting the federal Data Quality Act to paralyze scientists with frivolous allegations of inaccuracy, driving a stealth assault on public-health research

Michelle Chen

Review of Break Through

Brian Cook

Comics

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Terry LaBan

Musharraf’s Democracy

Intern

NCLB? No sir.

Adam Doster

Viewpoint

The Disturbing Sounds of the Turkish March

The true problem with "militaristic humanism" resides not in "militaristic," but in "humanism," in the way a military intervention is presented as humanitarian aid

Slavoj Žižek