Chicago
Superhero Movies, Rahm Emanuel, and the Greatest Rock Album of our Generation: Today's TNR Reader
Editor’s Note: We’ll be running the article recommendations of our friends at TNR Reader each afternoon on The Plank, just in time to print out or save for your commute home. Enjoy! Chicago is facing massive troubles. A crisis is afoot. Can Rahm Emanuel save the city? City Journal | 13 min (3,228 words) READ MORE >>
Dough-Faced
Happyism
Before 2013 begins, catch up on the best of 2012. From now until the New Year, we will be re-posting some of The New Republic’s most thought-provoking pieces of the year. Enjoy. READ MORE >>
Mayor Friendly
Nobility Eclipsed
Sanctuary in the Wilderness: A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew PoetryBy Alan Mintz (Stanford University Press, 520 pp., $65) I. READ MORE >>
Why Walker's Urban-Crime Scare Ad Might Work
So if you haven’t found a job yet: You’re better off coming to the city than sitting on your parents’ couch. Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Remarks at the Cornell University 2012 Convocation, May 27, 2012 READ MORE >>
Obama’s Bid To Cast Mitt In Hoover Mold
So Which Is It, Politico?
Lingerie Football?
If you fret that most forms of female objectification provide insufficient opportunity for concussions, or if you simply feel that the bread-and-circuses decline of American civilization is proceeding too slowly, have I got a sport for you: women playing football in their underwear. The Lingerie Football League claims to be the fastest-growing sports league in the country, and I don’t doubt it. READ MORE >>
