Fall 2025

T. R. Reid’s The United States of Europe, Jeremy Rifkin’s The European Dream, and Mark Leonard’s Why Europe will Run the 21st Century

The incompetence and cruelty of the Bush administration, currently on view in Iraq and New Orleans, may suffice to get the electorate to reduce Republican ascendancy in the Congress in 2006 and put a Democrat in the White House in …

Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson’s Off Center

On a trip to Portland, Oregon, in 2004, I wandered into the Whole Foods Market, where shoppers are greeted with soft-hued lighting, high ceilings, and carefully groomed displays of choice desserts and organic foods. The overall effect is more like …

John Hoerr’s Harry, Tom, and Father Rice

Yoram Peri looks at the Israeli army and state after disengagement

More than a decade ago, John Sweeney ousted Lane Kirkland and promised to revitalize the labor movement. He put a greater emphasis on organizing and more militant action on behalf of America’s working families. Sweeney and his team brought many …

Lessons for community organizing in the life of Rosa Parks

George Lakoff’s Don’t Think of an Elephant!

Notes from Down Under, after a month in Melbourne: The kangaroo isn’t as peculiar as the platypus or as funny-looking as the emu, but it is still a powerful argument against intelligent design. Of course, there is a counter-argument, according …

What happens after the union splits

Ian McEwan’s Saturday

WMD: Threat and Strategies

Sex, Viagra, and taxes