Print Magazine April 22, 2019, Issue Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue Editorial In Defense of the Much-Maligned IRS The agency helps to keep the wealthy accountable. Bryce Covert Why Democratic Contenders Now Call for Abolishing the Electoral College After the 2000 election, when Al Gore won the popular vote, Democrats were slow to respond, seeming to lack a basic sense of what was at stake. Not anymore. John Nichols Repeal Appeal ignore this… Read More Matt Bors NATO Turns 70 Next week, Washington will throw the military alliance a birthday party. How much is there to celebrate? James Carden Column We’re Owed an Apology And we should be suspicious of any candidate who’s loath to give one. Kai Wright How Women Are Made Invisible by Design When a “generic male” is the measure of all things, women suffer the consequences. Katha Pollitt Odd Reasoning Calvin Trillin Letters Letters From the April 22, 2019, Issue Led astray by the third way… Walker’s downfall… Nuclear insanity… Making scammers pay… Our Readers Feature These Men are Fighting to Abolish the Death Penalty—From Death Row Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty is the nation’s only anti–death penalty organization run by death-row prisoners. Lauren Gill The Widening Rift Between the US and China Worsening relations between the two largest economies in the world could lead to disaster. John Feffer What I Saw at the Dilley, Texas, Immigrant Detention Center The stories I heard from the women and children trapped in Trump’s willfully cruel immigration system will stay with me forever. Martin Garbus Books & the Arts Eric Hobsbawm’s Many Lefts How the historian’s tumultuous life in the 20th century remade his politics. David Marcus Jordan Peele’s Dive Into the Uncanny Valley The possibilities of Us redouble endlessly... and a little fruitlessly. Namwali Serpell Where Does Art Belong? A trio of recent shows—from Hilma af Klint, Warhol, and Bruce Nauman—propose radically different answers to that question. Barry Schwabsky Recent Issues See All "swipe left below to view more recent issues"Swipe → December 2024 November 2024 October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 See All x
Why Democratic Contenders Now Call for Abolishing the Electoral College After the 2000 election, when Al Gore won the popular vote, Democrats were slow to respond, seeming to lack a basic sense of what was at stake. Not anymore. John Nichols
NATO Turns 70 Next week, Washington will throw the military alliance a birthday party. How much is there to celebrate? James Carden
We’re Owed an Apology And we should be suspicious of any candidate who’s loath to give one. Kai Wright
How Women Are Made Invisible by Design When a “generic male” is the measure of all things, women suffer the consequences. Katha Pollitt
Letters From the April 22, 2019, Issue Led astray by the third way… Walker’s downfall… Nuclear insanity… Making scammers pay… Our Readers
These Men are Fighting to Abolish the Death Penalty—From Death Row Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty is the nation’s only anti–death penalty organization run by death-row prisoners. Lauren Gill
The Widening Rift Between the US and China Worsening relations between the two largest economies in the world could lead to disaster. John Feffer
What I Saw at the Dilley, Texas, Immigrant Detention Center The stories I heard from the women and children trapped in Trump’s willfully cruel immigration system will stay with me forever. Martin Garbus
Eric Hobsbawm’s Many Lefts How the historian’s tumultuous life in the 20th century remade his politics. David Marcus
Jordan Peele’s Dive Into the Uncanny Valley The possibilities of Us redouble endlessly... and a little fruitlessly. Namwali Serpell
Where Does Art Belong? A trio of recent shows—from Hilma af Klint, Warhol, and Bruce Nauman—propose radically different answers to that question. Barry Schwabsky