Rebecca Saletan: Magic and Mechanics
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.
Celebrate Corporate Personhood!
An address to mark the Freedom Summer of the corporate civil rights movement.
The Teaching Class
Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and everyone paying tuition should care.
Guernica’s Shutdown-Blues Playlist
Texas Hold Up
A play-by-play of Wendy Davis’s filibuster, and why it made such great, heartening, and depressing absurdity TV.
Salman Rushdie’s Happy Irreligion
At an evening with the AAWW, the celebrated novelist shares thoughts on influence and identity, and offers advice to young writers
Bill McKibben: Planetary Emergency
One of the world’s leading climate activists on the science of dangerous weather, the imperative to organize, and how to get out of bed in the morning on a planet in peril.
Rape and Rhetoric
Todd Akin's comments highlight the danger of letting ideology create facts instead of the other way around.
Human Rights Horror Stories
The scariest movies of the summer are at the Human Rights Watch film festival.
Emergency in Slow Motion
"The Island President," a new film about the crisis in the Maldives, wants to change the way we talk about climate change.
How the Million Hoodies March Quells Our Unreasonable Fears
Hoodiephobia is real, irrational, racial—and that’s why the Million Hoodies March is so important.
