The Radical, Grassroots-Led Pirate Party Just Might Win Iceland’s Elections The Radical, Grassroots-Led Pirate Party Just Might Win Iceland’s Elections
The hacker-led movement is leading a direct-democracy uprising across Europe.
Oct 19, 2016 / Feature / Paul Hockenos
Why the Gun-Control Movement Fails Why the Gun-Control Movement Fails
Its emphasis on “innocent” victims leaves out the people who need it most: low-income communities of color.
Oct 18, 2016 / Feature / Gary Younge
The American Social Safety Net Does Not Exist 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.
Oct 13, 2016 / Feature / Monica Potts
Win or Lose—Hillary Clinton’s Troubles in Ohio Should Worry Democrats 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.
Oct 12, 2016 / Feature / D.D. Guttenplan
Texas’s Voter-Registration Laws Are Straight Out of the Jim Crow Playbook Texas’s Voter-Registration Laws Are Straight Out of the Jim Crow Playbook
Compare them to Oregon’s, which make voting incredibly easy.
Oct 6, 2016 / Feature / Ari Berman
Ursula Le Guin Has Stopped Writing Fiction—but We Need Her More Than Ever Ursula Le Guin Has Stopped Writing Fiction—but We Need Her More Than Ever
The author on sexism, aging, and the radical possibilities of imaginative story telling.
Oct 5, 2016 / Feature / Zoë Carpenter
The Anonymous Town That Was the Model of Desegregation in the Civil-Rights Era The Anonymous Town That Was the Model of Desegregation in the Civil-Rights Era
Here’s how it fell apart.
Oct 4, 2016 / Feature / LynNell Hancock
Donald Trump, Shamer in Chief Donald Trump, Shamer in Chief
He’s spectacularly trashed our political culture by weaponizing shame. But he’s not the first—and he won’t be the last.
Oct 4, 2016 / Feature / Adam Haslett
What if the US Really Did Deport 11 Million People? What if the US Really Did Deport 11 Million People?
A case study of New York’s Hudson Valley, where immigrants—with and without documents—have brought once-dead towns back to life.
What Would Alexis de Tocqueville Have Made of the 2016 US Presidential Election? What Would Alexis de Tocqueville Have Made of the 2016 US Presidential Election?
Feverish thoughts from a moment of “extreme peril.”
Sep 28, 2016 / Feature / Arthur Goldhammer