Organize Every Precinct
We need more people. Not just a few more. We need a lot more people-and we need them organized at the scale of corporate and right-wing power. In the next 10 to 20 years, with emerging technologies, a clear plan, and leadership, we can have local self-organized progressive neighborhood Dream Teams in all of the…
Afghanistan Sketches
Illustrator Victor Juhasz spent three weeks in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Here, a sampling of his work.
I Was a Teenage Conservative
For a young Southern Californian coming of age in the early ’60s, the right with its emphasis on individual freedom was enormously appealing. What better way to rebel against liberal smugness? Then, the right betrayed itself.
Abe, Daniel … and Henry
Before Daniel Day-Lewis played Lincoln, another actor’s portrayal was legendary. On Henry Fonda’s forgotten greatness.
Pre-K on the Range
Rural, conservative, impoverished Oklahoma has built the nation’s brightest model for early education.
The Measure of All Things
How markets beat out citizenship to define our public life
Greedy Geezers, Reconsidered
In the current downturn, the vast majority of the elderly are suffering along with the young. The right cure would help both generations.
Schools in the Crosshairs
Starry-eyed education reformers have found yet another panacea for saving public education: parent-trigger laws.
A Strategic Plan for Liberals
What’s the road map for a progressive future?
Seeing Is Believing
Eyewitness testimony is unreliable and leads to wrongful convictions. Why has the judicial system not taken note?
The Best of David Foster Wallace
When the novelist learned to escape his own mind, he got a little closer to the greatness he sought.
The Collapse of Black Wealth
Prince George’s County was a symbol of African American prosperity. Then came the housing crisis.
Want Less Inequality? Tax It
Revive the big idea of British economist Arthur C. Pigou! And apply it to America’s most outrageous problem.
Joel Klein’s Misleading Autobiography
What the former chancellor of New York City schools’ sleight of hand tells us about education reform
CSI: David Byrne
An investigation of music’s power by one of its great polymaths
