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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
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
Matt Bors
NATO Turns 70
Next week, Washington will throw the military alliance a birthday party. How much is there to celebrate?
James Carden
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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
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
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Letters
Letters From the April 22, 2019, Issue
Led astray by the third way… Walker’s downfall… Nuclear insanity… Making scammers pay…
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 3495
Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
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