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Editorial

5 Novels About the Sordid Lives of High-Minded People

Zetigeist literature that prefigures the Brat Pack.

Michelle Dean

10 Down-Ballot Campaigns You Should Keep an Eye On

Does the presidential race make you wanna holler? These progressive contenders should put a smile on your face.

John Nichols

The Rise of a Cooperatively Owned Internet

Platform cooperativism gets a boost.

Nathan Schneider

The Sexual Predator Who Would Be King

Trump seeks to impose on America a strongman politics that even Republicans note—and fear.

John Nichols

Column

Hot-Mic Tape Brings Late-Inning Defections

Calvin Trillin

What We Talk About When We Don’t Talk About Climate Change

Years from now, historians will marvel at the absence of global warming in the 2016 campaign coverage and presidential debates.

Eric Alterman

Why It Took Republican Leaders 16 Months to Denounce Trump

When it comes to minorities, immigrants, and women—the party still has a major empathy gap.

Laila Lalami

Letters

Letters From the October 31, 2016, Issue

Hello, goodbye…  Bern on, Bern out…  With or without her…  Media malfeasance…  Pragmatism trumps purity…  Uberteachers …

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Feature

The American Social Safety Net Does Not Exist

After welfare reform, poor people were supposed to be able to find work. Not all of them could—and then the jobs disappeared.

Monica Potts

Win or Lose—Hillary Clinton’s Troubles in Ohio Should Worry Democrats

Trump is imploding nationally—but Clinton has failed to connect here with disaffected whites, African Americans, and young voters.

D.D. Guttenplan

Texas’s Voter-Registration Laws Are Straight Out of the Jim Crow Playbook

Compare them to Oregon’s, which make voting incredibly easy.

Ari Berman

Books & the Arts

Populism’s Two Paths

Throughout the North Atlantic, insurgencies on the left and the right are challenging mainstream politics. The question is: Which popular movement—the left’s or the right’s—will pr...

Jedediah Britton-Purdy

The Brat Pack Grows Up

Once the voice of youthful dissatisfaction, Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz, and Bret Easton Ellis experience the growing pains of middle age.

Michelle Dean

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10 Down-Ballot Campaigns You Should Keep an Eye On

The Rise of a Cooperatively Owned Internet

The Sexual Predator Who Would Be King

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Hot-Mic Tape Brings Late-Inning Defections

What We Talk About When We Don’t Talk About Climate Change

Why It Took Republican Leaders 16 Months to Denounce Trump

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The American Social Safety Net Does Not Exist

Win or Lose—Hillary Clinton’s Troubles in Ohio Should Worry Democrats

Texas’s Voter-Registration Laws Are Straight Out of the Jim Crow Playbook

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