• Canada holds elections.  But will NDP success move the country to the right?
• The “most profound essayist wielding a pen” examines Lula’s Brazil.
• The bourgeois press discovers Doug Henwood.
• Mike Macnair appraises Platypus.
• Mark Engler hearts Roseanne Barr.
• Bernard-Henri Levy feels the same way about charming, seductive rapists.
• Charming and seductive lover of third-person self-referencing, Bhaskar Sunkara, writes in Dissent about Osama’s death and Pakistani politics.
• Our advertisement in Brooklyn Rail has been unnerving some liberals.
• A musical reply to said liberals.
• Cornel West is pissed. And so is Tavis Smiley. They might’ve went along with imperial war abroad and class war at home for some damn inauguration tickets.
• Melissa Harris-Perry defends “our president” and lambasts “the self-appointed black leadership class.” In other news, irony is dead.
• Blast from the past: Forget the past.  There won’t be a future if you don’t click on this link and/or get us in touch with George Soros.