Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, of Rhode Island, is calling for the Justice Department to do what the IRS won’t.

As part of our celebration of National Poetry Month, a conversation on Lynn Melnick’s collection If I Should Say I Have Hope.

Georges Simenon might be the best French-language novelist you’ve never heard of.

How the 40-Year “Long Recession” led to the Great Recession.

Will the GOP team up with Wal-Mart’s data specialist?

“We Went Back: Photographs from Europe, 1933 – 1956″: Chim at the International Center of Photography

The former Pennsylvania governor is a paid consultant of the natural gas industry.

Americans are starting to feel the pain. They just don’t know it yet.

The veteran war reporter’s advice to young journalists on safety, story, five-sense reporting, and the uses of rumor.

And if so, is that terrible news?

Bribes, wires, and little surprise.

From the San Francisco earthquake to superstorm Sandy, how capitalism stacks the deck on disaster.

Lashkar-e-Taiba is an institution well-embedded in Pakistani Society.

An evening with Guernica at the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature.

Usually nobody.

How Operation Enduring Freedom mutated into Operation Enduring Corruption.

Hockey’s toughest tradition is harder to support than ever.

And why the AFL-CIO is embracing it.

By US law, the airwaves belong to all of us. But there’s no sign of that today.

When it comes to Israel, Palestine, and Iran, it could all come crashing down.

The growing burden of college fees.

Alexander Landfair talks with a poet equally enthusiastic about Wuthering Heights and Resident Evil.

To kick off National Poetry Month, the deputy director of the Poetry Society of America talks with Erica Wright about institutional rivalry, poetic diplomacy, and encountering verse in unlikely places.

What you don’t know can hurt you.

The liturgy of the lonely in the cruelest month.

County officials have one month to produce a plan that would end income-based discrimination and exclusionary zoning.

As the Supreme Court prepares to conference on same-sex marriage, a phonebanker reflects on hip-hop lyrics, missionary work, and what a conversation has to do to change a mind.

Congress and the courts have reached conflicting decisions on wage rules and protections for vulnerable temporary workers; nobody knows what happens next.

Iraq, ten years later.

The right regulates the bedroom before the banks.

The court might well have opted to undo the fabric of race-conscious laws and policies thread by thread.

The crisis in Cyprus and the risk tax havens pose to the global economy, a surprise earthquake for UK-affiliated tax havens and a frustrated corporate tax inspector speaks out on the corrupting of the tax system.

A long-lived artists’ squat in Paris’s Twentieth Arrondissement on the eve of eviction.

How the commons makes everything else work.

We’re in good company in the category of Social/Cultural Coverage, which includes The Morning News, McSweeney’s, and Rethinking Schools.

In post-revolution Cairo, Nubians and other minority groups are being erased from the state-defined national identity. In Aswan, the view is different.

What happened to the victims of the US secret prisons and extraordinary renditions?

The ever-destructive dreams of air power enthusiasts.

Tyrants at home and abroad.

Why Democrats shouldn’t put Social Security and Medicare on the table.

Reading Baratunde Thurston’s satirical memoir on public transportation turns into a social experiment.

Obama’s energy pick has a wealth of business connections.

IBM, HP, and Oracle in the crosshairs of an overseas corruption investigation.

A question for veterans that needs answering.

What Abigail Fisher’s affirmative action case is really about.

A look inside the courtroom on the opening day of Floyd v. NYC, the class-action lawsuit challenging the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy.

Can groups advocate for peace and justice while accepting money from authoritarian governments?

Creating PACs and then spending their money.

Welcome spring with this round of reading recommendations from the editors at Guernica.

A prose poem on Bush’s chauvinist rhetoric, the torture at Abu Ghraib, and other devastating aspects of the War in Iraq—ten years to the day after it began.

In the early 20th century, progressives saw urban land as common property.

The owner of a bookstore in Antalya, Turkey has more to offer than books.

Hunger and human rights abuses threaten fragile rural communities.

We are long past coal mine canaries.

Newly flush with oil cash, Kazakhstan makes Cosmopolitan its own—sort of.

Emails to Heather Podesta from an interim director raise questions about outside influence on the agency’s decisions.

Paul Ryan’s budget proposal sends wealth straight to the top of the economic hierarchy.

There’s a framework for peace in Congo, and if Rwanda will stop interfering, it just might work.

And what we’ve lost.

A Nashville psychiatrist becomes the first physician to net $1 million in promotional-speaking fees from drug companies.

Did a company try to hide risks of MRI dye Omniscan?

An excerpt from the Egyptian novelist’s prison journal, translated by Robyn Creswell.

The Paris Review editor on his new translation of That Smell by Sonallah Ibrahim.

The Epic Story of the C-130.

And what we must do to get it back.

Companies sell information related to life events—like pregnancies and divorces—social media profiles, and in some cases even health “interests.”

Why the invasion of Iraq was the single worst foreign policy decision in American history.

What comes first, the middle class or the mall?

Government loans encourage the reconstruction of areas at risk of repeated flooding.

The president has exercised his pardoning power less frequently than his four immediate predecessors.

The rise and fall of Germany’s Pirate party casts doubt on a future of crowdsourced politics.

England’s war on terror has become a war on women and children.

The anthology includes Guernica contributors in all three categories—poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.

Investment in technology, unemployment, globalization, and the “Fed’s easy-money policies” all contribute to widening inequality.

An interview with the poet on his debut collection Charms Against Lightning.

How exactly does the U.S. government define ‘militant activity’?

The staff of one of the world’s richest men may have broken anti-bribery laws, but questions remain as to which transactions are at issue.

Why it’s so tough to get your head around climate change.

One year later, the LRA leader is still at large—but the controversial viral video has changed America’s relationship to the International Criminal Court.

Politics today is still a fight for social justice.