April 10, 2017, Issue

Cover art by: Michael Xiao

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

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
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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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