The Last Lost Cause, Review of Fear Itself

Jeremy K. Kessler Jacobin
Book Review - In Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time, by Ira Katznelson. Was the mid-century dominance of southern Democrats essential to the defeat of Hitler and the triumph of American democracy?

Read Him His Rights

Scott Lemieux The American Prospect
The capture of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev presents an opportunity to show that fighting terrorism doesn't require abandoning the Constitution.