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Gun Crazy

by Jo Page January 10, 2013

It seems remarkably wasteful to spill more ink arguing for a ban on assault guns and pointing out the proliferation of gun violence in this country when there appears to be some significant percentage of ...

Today the Kitchen, Tomorrow the World

by Miriam Axel-Lute January 3, 2013

Sometimes our most satisfying triumphs are embarrassingly small. One weekend, I tackled our pantry floor, with its towering crates of jars and plastic storage containers. I had for years bemoaned the lack of an easy ...

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Smart Cookies

by Jo Page December 27, 2012

You know what they say: a cookie is never just a cookie. They don’t say that? Well, they should. Because it’s true. And before ours fade fast into the relentless peristalsis of family members and friends, ...

Take It to the Freakin’ Bank

by Paul Rapp December 27, 2012

Holy crap, it’s prediction time again. Looking over last year’s, a couple of purely wistful-thinking predictions came through—that SOPA/PIPA would go down in flames and that Mittens would get nominated and then get pounded in ...

Get It Done

by Miriam Axel-Lute December 20, 2012

The deadliest school violence in this country happened in 1927, when a school board official in Michigan blew up a school building, and his car, killing 38 children and 6 adults. Leonore Skenazy of the Free ...

Acceptable Levels

by Stephen Leon December 20, 2012

For most of us, life will go on as usual after the news dies down about the mass killings in Newtown, Conn. Just as life went on after Aurora, after Tucson, after Virginia Tech, after ...

The Apocalypse? I’m Cool With That

by John Rodat December 20, 2012

On Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, they say the world will come to an end. “Oh, that Mayan nonsense?” you scoff. For all the popular buzz there’s little real scholarship and less hard science behind this particular ...

Visions of Light

by Jo Page December 13, 2012

On Dec. 13th, St. Lucy’s Day, in many Scandinavian countries and in Lutheran communities in the United States, young girls wearing crowns of candles and bearing plates of saffron buns—to represent St. Lucy’s gouged-out eyes—come ...

Art of the Steal

by Paul Rapp December 13, 2012

Let’s talk about stealing versus taking. Let’s start with stealing. While walking around Miami’s huge Art Basel fair last week, artist Jason Levesque spotted three paintings that looked familiar. In fact, they were fairly precise ...

Stumbling to Solidarity

by Miriam Axel-Lute December 6, 2012

It’s been an exciting year in labor organizing, between the Chicago teachers strike, Port of Oakland shut downs, Wal-Mart walkouts, and New York City’s multi-chain fast food workers’ walkout. Healthy, progressive labor organizing is essential ...

Happy “Accident”

by Paul Rapp November 29, 2012

Well, it happened again. Facebook blew up on Monday with a cut-and-paste declaration of “rights” that went seriously viral. It was very similar to something that flew around earlier this year; it boldly proclaimed something ...

The $250,000 Question

by Leslie Savan November 28, 2012

Copyright 2012 The Nation, distributed by Agence Global For the last four years, President Obama has been pushing his plan to raise tax rates on people’s income over $250,000, but a new poll indicates that most ...

I Am Thanksome

by Miriam Axel-Lute November 20, 2012

This year we’ve instituted what seems likely to become a yearly tradition of a Thanksgiving tree. It’s taped on the wall of our front stairs, trunk and branches made out of brown paper. Each day, ...

Someone Call J. Edgar

by Paul Rapp November 15, 2012

I wasn’t going to write about the Petraeus thing because everybody else is. But since most everyone is missing the most important story here, what the hell. Here we go. A certain amount of familiarity with ...

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Hope Abounds

by Jo Page November 14, 2012

Two years ago my daughters and I lost a woman we loved as a mother and grandmother, though she was neither to us. Not closer than kin, but closer than a friend, her loss was ...

Mandate! Now, For What?

by Miriam Axel-Lute November 8, 2012

It’s the demographics, stupid. Also the economy. And climate change. And women’s rights. Tuesday was a rout. It was more of a rout than the numbers and the results show, because let’s remember that the progressive ...

General Election Endorsements

by The Staff November 1, 2012

New York state is not in play this year for Republicans when it comes to the races for United States president and senator. We endorse the Democratic incumbents in both races, President Barack Obama and ...

You Don’t Own It?

by Paul Rapp November 1, 2012

Several years ago, when the whole e-book thing was just starting, there was a bunch of controversy over what exactly you got when you bought an e-book. In one of those turns of events that ...

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