December 30, 2011—Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
December 30, 2011 |
Breaking news from the multi-partisan activist group. |
Joy Wood: Best Unfinished Novel of 2011: The Pale King
December 30, 2011 |
There are only two certain things in life: death and taxes. David Foster Wallace’s final book deals with both. |
Before It’s Next Year…
December 30, 2011 |
Hangovers aside, 2011 was another banner year for us. Let’s make 2012 better. |
Conversations With History: U.S.-Iranian Relations in the 1970s
December 30, 2011 |
How the Shah’s dependence on the rise of oil prices and his need to fund his new military role ultimately led to his downfall and the implosion of Iran. |
Jillian Steinhauer: Best Political Art of 2011
December 28, 2011 |
The American soldiers honored in artist Jane Hammond’s Fallen installation are remembered as individuals instead of as a statistic. |
Aseem Chhabra: The 10 Best Films of 2011
December 28, 2011 |
2011 was filled with 3-D, childhood favorites, franchises reboots, and existential indies, but what stood out most were the human dramas. |
Christine Larusso: Best 2011 Microessay on Poetry
December 27, 2011 |
Poet Rachel Zucker asks us to demand sentimentality. Because we’re human, dammit. |
Robin Yassin-Kassab: Now the Bombs
December 27, 2011 |
Who’s to blame for the car bombs in Damascus? Answering this question might be the least of our worries. |
Russ Baker: Justifying War With Iran
December 27, 2011 |
Is the U.S. preparing the public for war with Iran? You bet. |
December 23, 2011—Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
December 23, 2011 |
Breaking news from the multi-partisan activist group. |
Maryam Abolfazli: Collisions
December 23, 2011 |
A year inside a governmental ministry in Afghanistan. |
Julia Grønnevet: Anders Breivik: Madman or Fighter for an Idea?
December 23, 2011 |
Guernica brings you an extensive translation of Brevik’s psychological evaluation. |
Dario Robleto: Best 2011 Art Show NYers Won’t See
December 22, 2011 |
The Texas-based artist’s solo exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center confronts human-induced extinction. |
Joanna Eede: Christmas Reindeer Mystery As World’s Largest Herd Plummets
December 21, 2011 |
Reindeer aren’t just for Christmas. They are central to the lives and cultures of indigenous peoples across the sub-Arctic. |
Susie Linfield: The Best and the Worst Events of 2011
December 21, 2011 |
As 2011 draws to a close, the world is faced with a host of uncertainties of what will come next. |
Nick Turse: The Drone That Fell From the Sky
December 21, 2011 |
What a busted robot airplane tells us about the American Empire in 2012 and beyond. |
Belén Fernández: The Latest Installment of the Iranian Terror Plot
December 20, 2011 |
Why is the Daily Beast buying into a right-wing plot to place Iranian “terrorists” in Latin America? |
Robert Reich: The Defining Issue
December 20, 2011 |
Mo’ money, mo’ problems. Why “big government” isn’t the problem. |
Sam Kerbel: Best Battle Royale of 2011: Chomsky vs. Hitchens
December 19, 2011 |
Guernica recalls the ferocious (and prose-laden, foreign policy-focused, and politically savvy) battle of heavyweights. |
Tom Engelhardt: The Four Occupations of Planet Earth
December 18, 2011 |
How the Occupied became the Occupiers. |
Bill McKibben: At Last, A New Story for the Future
December 16, 2011 |
Why we must control our appetite for natural resources. |
Eboo Patel: Becoming All-American Muslims
December 16, 2011 |
If the #loweshatesmuslims campaign illustrates anything, it’s that Muslims will never be Ground Zero Mosque-d again. |
Guernica on Longform’s Best of the Year List
December 15, 2011 |
Meghan O’Gieblyn’s “Sniffing Glue,” chosen as one of the top 10 essays of the year. |
Genevieve Walker: Maurizio Cattelan’s Drying Laundry
December 15, 2011It’s easy to hate on Maurizio Cattelan’s 21-year retrospective at New York City’s Guggenheim, but its perpetual pantsing and mooning grow on you.
Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich: The Fall of the “Liberal Elite”
December 15, 2011 |
The making of the American 99% and the collapse of the middle class. |
Conversations With History: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
December 14, 2011 |
Glenn Greenwald analyzes the relationship between principle, power, and law, and describes the erosion of justice in the United States. |
Nick Turse: Did the Pentagon Help Strangle the Arab Spring?
December 13, 2011 |
Uncovering the military’s secret military. |
Jonathan Z. Larsen: The Dominique Strauss-Kahn Case Revisited
December 13, 2011 |
Was Dominique Strauss-Kahn set up? Or more importantly, why would someone make the effort to? |
Justin Alvarez: My Favorite Commercial of 2011
December 12, 2011 |
It’s a good thing when advertising makes you feel a little bit stupid. |
Justin Alvarez: Yasujiro Ozu, Life’s Poet
December 12, 2011 |
A commemoration of Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu on the anniversary of his birth and death. |
Robert Reich: The Remarkable Political Stupidity of the Street
December 12, 2011 |
It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. How Wall Street is its own worst enemy. |
Tom Engelhardt: The 1% Election: Their Bread, Our Circus
December 12, 2011 |
How to turn election year into election life. |
December 11, 2011—Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
December 11, 2011 |
Breaking news from the multi-partisan activist group. |
Jenny Odell: All the People on Google Earth
December 9, 2011 |
The graphic artist on visiting the Google headquarters, the limits of photographic “reality,” and the rapidly changing face of contemporary photography. |
Russ Baker: The Saudi Arab Spring Nobody Noticed
December 9, 2011 |
Why Saudi Arabia can’t count on the handy boost the West gave to revolutions in nearby countries. |
Lex Paulson: Applied Classics: A Letter from the 99% of Ancient Rome
December 9, 2011 |
What the Occupy movement can learn from Ancient Rome. |
Guernica’s Interviewees Featured on Foreign Policy’s Top 100
December 7, 2011 |
Our top 9 of FP’s movers and shakers of 2011 (including one dude who’s kind of meh) |
Video: President Obama’s Osawatomie Speech
December 7, 2011 |
Video footage of what Robert Reich calls Obama’s most important speech on the economy |
Clark Row: The Lucky One
December 7, 2011 |
On the 70th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, the author recalls his experience as a child watching the attack from his home in Honolulu. |
Carmen García Durazo: Beats, Rhymes, and Shabazz
December 7, 2011 |
A Seattle duo’s enigmatic contribution to 2011’s hip hop sound. |
Robert Reich: The Most Important Economic Speech of His Presidency
December 7, 2011 |
Barack Obama channels Theodore Roosevelt as he addresses America’s “gaping inequality” as the “defining issue of our time” and lays out the possible layout for his 2012 reelection platform. |
Michael T. Klare: A New Cold War in Asia?
December 6, 2011 |
How President Obama is playing with fire by threatening China. |
Travis Holloway: Performing Art or Democracy? On Poetry at Occupy Wall Street
December 6, 2011 |
Could it be that the generation seemingly structured by a new politics is also structured by a new kind of art? |
Robert Reich: The Jobs Report: Don’t Break Out the Champagne
December 5, 2011 |
Why it’s too early to celebrate November’s job growth. |
Genevieve Walker: Best Art of 2011
December 5, 2011The best art wasn’t found in galleries this year. It was found online.
William deBuys: The Parching of the West
December 4, 2011 |
The greatest water crisis in the history of civilization. The grimmest show on Earth. |
December 2, 2011—Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
December 2, 2011 |
Breaking news from the multi-partisan activist group. |
Kaye Cain-Nielsen: Best Manifesto on Stealing Other Writers’ Work
December 2, 2011This year, ask yourself: why create when you can steal?
Jamal Mahjoub: Free Alaa
December 1, 2011 |
How to save one of Egypt’s most prominent anti-regime voices. |
Tom Engelhardt: Into the Whirlwind
December 1, 2011 |
After almost nine years of war and occupation, what does Washington have to show for itself? |
Sam Kerbel: Top 3 Book Review Take-Downs
December 1, 2011 |
A sample of this year’s most linguistically creative and intellectually exasperating spankings. |
U Win Htein: The Return of Burma’s National League for Democracy
November 30, 2011 |
Aung San Suu Kyi’s senior staffer U Win Htein on how and why the Burmese government is now reforming, the grounds for that change, and the National League for Democracy’s role in the transformation. |
Justin Alvarez: The Day After
November 30, 2011 |
How Congolese rapper Baloji reminds his native country that what’s most important in times of struggle is sticking together. |
Conversations With History: U.S. Foreign Policy in a World Undergoing Change
November 29, 2011 |
In a video conversation with Harry Kreisler, the journalist Tom Wicker, former columnist for The New York Times, discusses the Presidency and the media at the height of the Cold War. |
Steve Fraser: Take Our Children, Please!
November 29, 2011 |
A modest proposal for Occupy Wall Street. |
Robin Yassin-Kassab: The Aftermath
November 29, 2011 |
Nir Rosen records the hardening of sectarian boundaries, the firming up of assabiya, or group identity, in the Middle East. |
Justin Alvarez: The 5 Best Films By Georges Méliès
November 29, 2011 |
Martin Scorsese’s recent film, Hugo, revives interest in the silent film pioneer. |
Robert Reich: A Thanksgiving Reflection: Looking Beyond Election Day
November 28, 2011 |
Why we should be worrying less about how America’s economy will influence Obama’s reelection and more on how to solve the problems with which whoever wins in 2012 will have to deal with. |
Peter Van Buren: No Free Speech at Mr. Jefferson’s Library
November 27, 2011 |
How “rights” are increasingly meant for those who behave themselves and don’t exercise them. |
Robin Yassin-Kassab: Reporting Syria
November 23, 2011 |
How journalists Robert Fisk, Nir Rosen, and Joseph Massad have framed Syria all wrong. |
Rebecca Solnit: Ms. Civil Society v. Mr. Unaccountable
November 22, 2011How ten years after 9/11 Occupy Wall Street may signify a return to a civil society.
Justin Alvarez: Show, Don’t Tell
November 22, 2011 |
How does the 2008 global financial recession impact the U.S. versus Europe? (Now with visuals!) |
Andy Kroll: Occupy Wall Street’s Political Victory in Ohio
November 21, 2011 |
The unsung victors in the hottest election of 2011. |
Elizabeth Kadetsky: Joiners and Haters
November 19, 2011 |
What the womblike warmth of being a part of something means for Penn State. |
November 18, 2011—Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
November 18, 2011 |
Breaking news from the multi-partisan activist group. |
Alan Chin: Occupy Wall Street’s Eviction
November 18, 2011 |
Photographs from Occupy Wall Street’s eviction from Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park/Liberty Plaza on November 15th. |
Lex Paulson: Applied Classics: Aristotle and the Supercommittee
November 18, 2011 |
How Greek philosophy can solve America’s budget crisis. |
Thomas Friedman—Greenwashing Imperial Messenger?
November 17, 2011 |
In this excerpt from her latest book, Belén Fernández gapes incredulously at the logical missteps of a three-time Pulitzer winner. |
Rebecca Bates: 101 Ways to Be Impossible
November 17, 2011 |
The Impossible Project gets crafty with instant film. |
Tom Engelhardt: How the Movies Saved My Life
November 17, 2011 |
Seeing the world in black and white (with subtitles). |
Justin Alvarez: The Balance Between Love and Hate
November 17, 2011 |
Is the United Colors of Benetton’s new UNHATE campaign a stroke of genius or a tasteless stunt? |
Conversations With History: Rogers M. Smith on Politics and American Political Ideals
November 17, 2011 |
In a video conversation with Harry Kreisler, the political scientist Rogers M. Smith discusses the importance of building community and political identity and the increasing polarization around issues of inequality and relative international decline. |
VIDEO: Larry Siems on The Torture Report
November 16, 2011 |
Larry Siems dissects 140,000 government documents to get at the real story behind U.S. torture. |
Alexis Rizzuto: A Tar Sands Explainer
November 16, 2011 |
How great a green victory was the president’s decision to reexamine the tar sands pipeline? An eco activist explains. |
Robert Reich: Occupiers Occupied
November 16, 2011 |
Occupy Wall Street and the hijacking of the First Amendment. |
Robin Yassin-Kassab: Peace Be Upon Syria
November 16, 2011 |
Syrian actress Fadwa Sulaiman releases a video statement and talks about the possibility of getting arrested. |
Bill McKibben: Is Global Warming an Election Issue After All?
November 15, 2011 |
It’s time for Americans to wake up to climate change. |
Robin Yassin-Kassab: Stranger Magic
November 14, 2011 |
A review of Stranger Magic, “a post-Saidean endeavor to uncover ‘a neglected story of reciprocity and exchange.’” |
Robert Reich: Why We May Be In Store for a Passionless Presidential Race
November 14, 2011 |
Only a couple of months before the presidential race begins. Don’t expect any surprises. |
Genevieve Walker: The Bunny Stigma
November 13, 2011Hugh Hefner was once called a protofeminist and a social radical. But it’s been a while.
Andrew Bacevich: The Passing of the Postwar Era
November 13, 2011 |
How the United States’s international order has faded. |
Justin Alvarez: Haskell Wexler at Occupy L.A.
November 11, 2011 |
Academy Award-winning cinematographer and long-time activist Haskell Wexler points his camera at Occupy L.A. |
November 11, 2011—Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
November 11, 2011 |
Breaking news from the multi-partisan activist group. |
Robert Reich: Trigger Happy
November 11, 2011 |
Why deficit cuts should be triggered only when unemployment reaches 5 percent. |
Glenna Gordon: Liberia’s Fraught Election
November 11, 2011 |
Photographer Glenna Gordon captures Liberia’s first independent presidential elections and the rough aftermath. |
Sarah Mathews: No, You’re the Cunty One!
November 9, 2011 |
A feminist comedian rethinks a four letter word. |
Sherrilyn A. Ifill: Dear Camp Cain: Stop Calling It a Lynching
November 8, 2011 |
Whatever one thinks of either Thomas or Cain, neither is the victim of a lynching, and their deliberate invocation of the racial crime to shield their own conduct from scrutiny is an insult. |
Robert Reich: A Corporate Pledge of Allegiance
November 8, 2011 |
If corporations do not take the pledge, we should boycott them. (Occupiers—are you listening?) |
