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Fill In the Gap

When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the bulk of the Affordable Care Act in June of 2012, the decision was widely viewed as a victory for President Obama and a…

Anna Maria

by Luciana Castellina, Patrick Camiller,

By Luciana Castellina, from Discovery of the World: A Political Awakening in the Shadow of Mussolini, out this month from Verso Books. Translated from the Italian by Patrick Camiller.

Nothing Left

by Adolph Reed Jr.,

The long, slow surrender of American liberals

Change in the Air

by Jeff Madrick,

When Bill de Blasio won the New York City mayoral election with 73 percent of the vote, I couldn’t help but wonder whether it was the start of something big. For more…

Tears for Fears

by Thomas Frank,

One of the many poignant glimpses of midcentury America afforded me by a fiftieth-anniversary reading of the Warren Report was the story of an ephemeral conservative organization called the American…

Now You Sisi

by Ahmed Ould Meiloud,

From a video of senior Egyptian army officers at a meeting held by General Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi, leaked last October by the Islamist website Rassd News Network; the meeting is thought…

Dissolve Congress

by Jean-Philippe Immarigeon,

A cure for constitutional crisis

Secretary of Nothing

by Andrew Cockburn,

John Kerry and the myth of foreign policy

Chicago Is the Future

by Thomas Frank,

It was in 1988 that I moved to the bedraggled neighborhood of Hyde Park in order to study American history at the University of Chicago. I left the city ten…

Dirty South

by Ken Silverstein, Samuel James,

The foul legacy of Louisiana oil

Open Season

From a transcript of a meeting held on August 6 by the town council of Deer Trail, Colorado. On July 2, Phillip Steel, a local resident, proposed an ordinance to…