Nick Turse: The Outpost That Doesn’t Exist in the Country You Can’t LocateNovember 2014
A base camp, an authoritarian regime, and the future of U.S. blowback in Africa.
Marian Wang: Charter School Chain Finally Discloses Salaries, With One MissingNovember 2014
It’s the latest round in a fight between North Carolina regulators and a charter-school power broker.
David Bollier: The Great Promise of Social Co-OperativesNovember 2014
A practical alternative to corporate economic control already exists.
Jake Bernstein: Turmoil in New York Fed Team Monitoring JPMorganNovember 2014
Examiners are reportedly blocked from doing their job as “London Whale” trades blow up.
Amanda Michalopoulou: Deer in the WoodsNovember 2014
Flash Fiction: What, for you, is the clearest image of happiness?
Justin Elliott: Crisis of Trust at the Red CrossNovember 2014
A survey shows the Red Cross’ own employees doubt the charity’s ethics.
Robert Reich: The .01 PercentNovember 2014
If you want to know what’s happened to the American economy, follow the money.
Jay Walljasper: Walk this WayNovember 2014
Humans’ most common pastime—forsaken for decades as too slow and too much effort—is now recognized as a health breakthrough, an economic catalyst, and a route to happiness.
Laura Gottesdiener: Two Detroits, Separate and UnequalNovember 2014
A journey across a city divided.
Nancy Kricorian: Pilgrimage as/or ResistanceNovember 2014
A trip to Turkey sparks a search for the ghosts of the Armenian genocide.
David Vine: The Bases of War in the Middle EastNovember 2014
From Carter to the Islamic State, 35 years of building bases and sowing disaster in the Middle East
Nina Martin: Catholic Bishops Vote to Revise Rules for Health CareNovember 2014
With Catholic health systems expanding, stricter rules could have implications for reproductive and maternity care across the country.
Richard Falk: Why Foreign Military Intervention Usually Fails in the 21st CenturyNovember 2014
There is still a mysterious connection between military inferiority and political victory.
Şükran Moral: The Slow UnsilencingNovember 2014
On the eve of Contemporary Istanbul, Rachel Friedman talks with one of Turkey’s most controversial artists about performance, process, and what happens when your art makes you a target.
Tom Engelhardt: Psychoanalyzing EmpireNovember 2014
America on the couch.
Peter Van Buren: What Could Possibly Go Right?November 2014
Four months into Iraq War 3.0, the cracks are showing—on the battlefield and at the Pentagon.
Mary Mann: WeiterNovember 2014
A tale of belonging and not belonging in Mallorca, Spain.
Marian Wong: Charter-School Chain It Can’t Keep Administrator Salaries SecretNovember 2014
The schools’ management company says that the salaries paid to school administrators should be considered a trade secret.
Robert Reich: The Choice of the CenturyNovember 2014
The President blames himself for the Democrat’s big election day losses.
Rob Spillman: Yes, It’s about RacismNovember 2014
Readpolitik: On Claudia Rankine’s polemical poetry.
Tom Engelhardt: The Pressure to EscalateNovember 2014
The two horsemen of the American apocalypse.
Marie Myung-Ok Lee: How Should a Doctor Act?November 2014
New York City: an infection story.
Orin Zebest: Democrat Candidates Lose, Democrat Issues WinNovember 2014
Voters endorsed progressive measures in referendums across the US.
Hina Shamsi and Matthew Harwood: Databases of SuspicionNovember 2014
Uncovering a shadow form of national ID.
Rebecca Saletan: Magic and MechanicsNovember 2014
The editorial director of Riverhead Books talks with Rachel Riederer about the intimacy of editing, hunkering down in the White House, and why book publishers remain essential in the digital age.
Elizabeth Holtzman: Baseless Cries for Impeachment from the GOPNovember 2014
Impeachment chatter among Republicans belittles the Framers' intent.
Rebecca Solnit: Feminism, Now with MenNovember 2014
Misogyny is over (if you want it).
Robert Reich: An Election Day CarolNovember 2014
“I am Election Day Present,” says the apparition, "and you must come with me."
Theodoric Meyer: Secret Donors, Some Super PACs & Midterm MillionsNovember 2014
Voters are left in the dark about where money is really coming from.
Ann Jones: The Missing Women of AfghanistanNovember 2014
After thirteen years of war, the rule of men, not law.