Vol. 77 No. 12, December - December 2013
Index
- Changing the world.
- Bad analogy department.
- Cookie monsters.
- Hooked on health care.
- Insuring discrimination.
- McWelfare.
- Representative of the people.
- Suing homosexuality.
- This hurts me more than you.
- Dogs, not guns.
- Soaring student debt.
- The three racists issue.
- Ravitch right on.
- The democracy scam.
- Public banking is the answer.
- Free speech victory.
- March against Monsanto.
- Time for immigration reform.
- Defending a forest in Oregon.
- Stop watching us.
- Generational shift.
- Son of Citizens United.
- When government was neighborly.
- Rescuing Atlantis.
- The bravest woman I know.
- Taking abortions home.
- Sister cities success story.
- Sandy's nurses.
- A victory for public schools.
- Vets turn to gardening.
- A letter to a young doctor.
- Community activists save the sea.
- Practicing nonviolence in Syria.
- A cemetery desecrated by mining: West Virginians go through life knowing what mountain or hillside we'll be buried on.
- Tawakkol Karman.
- Players who stand up.
- Ted Cruz's tinfoil hat.
- How can Bill McKibben remain so optimistic and energized in the face of looming global catastrophe?
- Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now (Current), by Douglas Rushkoff, cogently explains such afflictions as my "digiphrenia" (collapse of cause and effect).
- Once, when I was bemoaning the repetitious haul of daily life, I picked up a book of poems, and the poems 'whacked' at me, to borrow a sentiment from the poem 'Whacked' that opens C. K. Williams's Writers Writing Dying (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux).
- A collection of such excellent essays on the Syrian civil war could not be timelier.
- Gone Girl (Crown), by Gillian Flynn.
- There are more music autobiographies out there than you can shake a drumstick at.
- My worst books of the year: Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife (Simon & Schuster), by Eben Alexander.
- There is nothing that gets my enthusiasm meter as high as good reporting, and here are three books that push the needle.
- This, unfortunately, is the age of austerity.
- The wisest book I read this year was Eduardo Galeanos Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History (Nation Books).
- In The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business (Knopf), by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, one of modern society's foremost visionaries paints a vivid picture of our rapidly approaching, technology-soaked future, and what these radical changes will mean for everyday life, politics, and the global economy.
- I have argued for years that sports should be understood the same way as art, though I have no actual theoretical or practical understanding of the art world, art history, or the ways that our commodity culture distorts the artistic process.
- She stands up to Keystone.