April 17, 2017, Issue
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Feature
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
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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
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Editorial
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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
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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
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Column
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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
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Americans Everywhere Benefit From the NEA and NEH
And that includes coal miners who voted for Trump.
Laila Lalami
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Books & the Arts
The Red Emigrant
For Isaac Deutscher, exile helped him discover his real community—the internationalist left.
Bruce Robbins
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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
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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
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Letters
Letters From the April 17, 2017, Issue
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