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Editorial

Trump’s New Programs

No more Meals on Wheels, but…

Jen Sorensen

This Is What’s Really Behind North Korea’s Nuclear Provocations

It’s easy to dismiss Kim Jong-un as a madman. But there’s a long history of US aggression against the North, which we forget at our peril.

Bruce Cumings

We Must Investigate the Russia Hacking Charges—Without Cold-War Hysteria

Exaggerated fear of foreign subversion can be more damaging to our democracy than external enemies.

Bruce Shapiro

Trump’s Budget Is a Perfect Reflection of Republican Values

It’s cruel, duplicitous and ignorant.

Robert L. Borosage

Column

Donald Trump takes a question during a news conference

Trump’s Wiretapping Accusation

Calvin Trillin

Actually, Not Everything Is a Feminist Issue

And that’s okay.

Katha Pollitt

The Health-Care Bill Embraces the GOP’s Scariest State-Level Experiments

We all live in Kansas now.

Kai Wright

Letters

Letters From the April 10, 2017, Issue

The road to Trump… Alien-Nation… The people’s news… Crash!… The past as prologue?…

Our Readers and Matt Stoller

Feature

The Fight to Save the Affordable Care Act Is Really a Class Battle

Starting to mitigate America’s yawning class divide is exactly what the ACA did. And that’s exactly what the Republican plan would undo.

Angela Bonavoglia

Housekeepers Versus Harvard: Feminism for the Age of Trump

A feminism for the 99 percent has been forged by working-class immigrant women who confronted Harvard’s first female president and Sheryl Sandberg.

Sarah Leonard and Rebecca Rojer

Books & the Arts

The Ambiguous Legacy of Obama’s Foreign Policy

He may have talked about precision and constraint when it came to the national-security state, but he ultimately failed to leave us with a new strategic vision.

Karen J. Greenberg

Elif Batuman’s Bold and Defiantly Imperfect novel

Elif Batuman’s debut novel reminds us that part of the novel’s genius that it made room for the extraneous and the unplanned

Evan Kindley

In Brexit’s Wake

A new book about Brexit captures the deeper crisis undergirding Britain’s bid to leave the EU.

John Harris

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Editorial

Trump’s New Programs

This Is What’s Really Behind North Korea’s Nuclear Provocations

We Must Investigate the Russia Hacking Charges—Without Cold-War Hysteria

Trump’s Budget Is a Perfect Reflection of Republican Values

Column

Trump’s Wiretapping Accusation

Actually, Not Everything Is a Feminist Issue

The Health-Care Bill Embraces the GOP’s Scariest State-Level Experiments

Letters

Letters From the April 10, 2017, Issue

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The Fight to Save the Affordable Care Act Is Really a Class Battle

Housekeepers Versus Harvard: Feminism for the Age of Trump

Books & the Arts

The Ambiguous Legacy of Obama’s Foreign Policy

Elif Batuman’s Bold and Defiantly Imperfect novel

In Brexit’s Wake

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