April 15, 2019, Issue

Cover art by: Edel Rodriguez

Feature

Economic Insecurity Is Becoming the New Hallmark of Old Age

It’s time to face this country’s looming retirement crisis.
Katherine S. Newman and Rebecca Hayes Jacobs
Trump Is Laying a Trap for Democrats on Immigration

He’ll use fear of crime and “open borders” to woo voters in 2020. Democrats need to go on the offensive.
Jeff Faux
As a Black Mother, My Parenting Is Always Political

To care for, protect, and prepare our children for adulthood, black moms cannot merely accept the world as it is.
Dani McClain

Editorial

When Socialism Was Tried in America—and Was a Smashing Success

For much of the 20th century, Milwaukee was run by socialists—and Time magazine called it “one of the best-run cities in the U.S.”
John Nichols
What We Should Learn From the Mueller Report

Mueller debunked claims of conspiracy with Russia, but the indictments and convictions resulting from his investigation should spur both Democrats and the media to focus on the full scope of Trump’s misrule.
The Nation
Collusion Conclusions

Matt Bors
RIP, Russiagate

The implosion of the collusion theory is a humiliation for everyone who promoted it.
Aaron Maté
‘Why Go to School When You Have No Future?’: A Q&A With a 13-Year-Old Climate Striker

Alexandria Villaseñor doesn’t have time to wait until she’s in power.
Angely Mercado
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Column

Our Toxic-Speech Epidemic

Trump likes his words free, loud, and hateful. Just don’t take him literally.
Patricia J. Williams
The Liberal Case Against Bernie

With a dangerous lunatic in the White House, voting for Sanders is too big a risk.
Eric Alterman
Low Point?

Calvin Trillin

Books & the Arts

What Fracking Has Wrought

Eliza Griswold’s new book, Amity And Prosperity, examines the high human and environmental costs of natural gas extraction in two Pennsylvania towns.
Sarah Jones
The Travails of Emmanuel Macron

A new book equates the French president’s rise to a revolution. For much of France’s working and middle classes, it has been nothing short of a disaster.
Cole Stangler
Little Death

Rachel Galvin
The Myth of the American Frontier

Greg Grandin’s new book charts the past and present of American expansionism and its high human costs.
Jedediah Britton-Purdy
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