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Feminism’s Toxic Twitter Wars

Empowered by social media, feminists are calling one another out for ideological offenses. Is it good for the movement? And whose movement is it?

Michelle Goldberg

What Chirlane McCray Wore—and Why It Matters

Suddenly local fashion is all the rage. But can the garment trades once again bring good jobs to New York City?

Elizabeth Cline

Harvard and Brown Fail on Climate

Why university presidents Drew Gilpin Faust and Christina Paxson were wrong to reject calls to divest from fossil fuel companies.

James Lawrence Powell

This Modern World

Tom Tomorrow

Snapshot: Love and Revolution

Valentyn Ogirenko

Obama Called for a ‘Year of Action’ to Fight Inequality. Let’s Make It Happen.

Only continued pressure from grassroots activists will force Washington to do the right thing.

The Editors

Celebrating Pete Seeger

Bruce Springsteen said it best, on Pete’s ninetieth birthday: “You outlasted the bastards, man.”

John Nichols

How the Myth of the ‘Negro Cocaine Fiend’ Helped Shape American Drug Policy

In 1914, a racist fiction helped sell one of the nation’s first drug laws; 100 years later, it’s still with us.

Carl L. Hart

What Happens When 85 People Are Worth the Same Amount as 3.5 Billion?

A new Oxfam report warns of the dangers of global inequality.

Corinne Grinapol

Bill de Blasio Is Wrong to Pander to AIPAC

The powerful right-wing lobby doesn’t represent most American Jews, and it’s no longer the only game in town.

The Editors

Friendly Advice

Calvin Trillin

The Return of the Tiger Mother

A new book raises the question: Are Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld racists—or just equal opportunity trolls?

Richard Kim

Slavery in the Modern World

David Brion Davis’s pathbreaking study of the problem of slavery.

Eric Foner

Abie’s Yiddish Muse

Like a lot of red revolutionaries, Abraham Cahan ended up to the right of where he began.

D.D. Guttenplan

Tested

Diane Ravitch’s latest call-to-arms against the privatization of public schools.

Joseph Featherstone

Eurydice

Ocean Vuong

Letters

…And the poor get poorer… the Viagra effect… neutralize gerrymandering… put the nation back in The Nation… parochial New York… towering New York… bothered and bewildered

Our Readers

Puzzle No. 3312

And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto