Letters From the December 3-10, 2018, Issue Letters From the December 3-10, 2018, Issue
This is what heroism looks like… Lost in translation… Humph!…
Nov 8, 2018 / Our Readers
The White House and the Caravan The White House and the Caravan
Invasion by tired and poor but not white! We’ll stop them, Trump tells us, of that there’s no doubt. The troops have been sent. Will the Air Force be next? And nuclear weapons—have…
Nov 8, 2018 / Column / Calvin Trillin
I Make a Toothpick Diadem & Crown Myself Token I Make a Toothpick Diadem & Crown Myself Token
Pink light sears the marbled bar & the straw in my drink is pastel. On wood-paneled walls, American Traditional paintings of my goddesses. Kati texts me : all this gaslighting…
Nov 8, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Raena Shirali
Self-Portrait as a Shadow Self-Portrait as a Shadow
for V. Lamar Word is I wasn’t born so much as skimmed off another living thing by a source of light. Let’s just say that you are light-skinned and the back of my mom’s hand is a co…
Nov 8, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Cortney Lamar Charleston
Puzzle No. 3482 Puzzle No. 3482
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Going back and forth sick during time off (11) 7 and 27 Criticize crack in closet (6) 9 One interrupting Presiden…
Nov 8, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Rereading Alinsky in Baltimore Rereading Alinsky in Baltimore
Why broad-based organizing still matters in an age of hashtag activism.
Nov 8, 2018 / Nick Bowlin
Chronicle of Deaths Foretold Chronicle of Deaths Foretold
Trump’s hateful rhetoric encourages mass violence.
Nov 8, 2018 / Column / Eric Alterman
When Environmentalism Meets Xenophobia When Environmentalism Meets Xenophobia
The conservative conservation movement’s dark history of racism and eugenics.
Nov 8, 2018 / Feature / Gaby Del Valle
Blue Wave by Any Measure Blue Wave by Any Measure
Given all the Republican voter suppression, winning Congress was a landslide.
Nov 8, 2018 / OppArt / India Tresselt