The Salvadoran Town That Can’t Forget

Will exhumations bring the survivors of the El Mozote massacre together, or tear them apart once again?

Sarah Esther Maslin

Policing the Colony: From the American Revolution to Ferguson

King George’s tax collectors abused police powers to fill his coffers. Sound familiar?

Chris Hayes

Trump Is Alt-Wrong

Peter Kuper

The Tea Party Helped Build the Bridge to Single Payer

By pushing a draconian repeal of Obamacare, they awakened a giant. Thanks, guys!

Richard Kim

Why Trump’s Climate-Wrecking Agenda Could Fail

Activists as well as local and state governments are fighting back—but global energy markets could be his most powerful opponents.

Mark Hertsgaard

Trump Fails to Close His First Big Washington Deal

Calvin Trillin

The Perception of Liberal Bias in the Newsroom Has Nothing Whatsoever to Do With Reality

Insisting without evidence that the mainstream media leans left, press critics do the right wing’s bidding.

Eric Alterman

Americans Everywhere Benefit From the NEA and NEH

And that includes coal miners who voted for Trump.

Laila Lalami

The Red Emigrant

For Isaac Deutscher, exile helped him discover his real community—the internationalist left.

Bruce Robbins

Ali Smith’s Novel of Disintegration

One of Autumn’s recurring themes is our willed blindness to what threatens our sense of order—from climate change to financial and political insecurity. 

Namara Smith

Terence Davies’s Counter-Séance

A Quiet Passion doesn’t pretend to recall the skeptical spirit of Emily Dickinson to the land of the living but rather projects you into her departed world.

Stuart Klawans

Letters From the April 17, 2017, Issue

For the public, not profit… Russia’s a touchy subject… Book learning: Hitler and the labor movement…

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Puzzle No. 3429

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto