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April 30-May 7, 2018, Issue

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Editorial

stacey abrams

Here Are 10 Progressive Candidates We’re Keeping Our Eyes On for the Midterms

All promise not just a change in party, but an end to status-quo politics.

My 11-Year-Old Daughter Is Obsessed With Makeup. Should I Object on Feminist Grounds?

Another reader asks if capitalism exacerbates passive-aggressive behavior. (Whatever.)

Liza Featherstone

Russian Missile System

Why the New Cold War Is So Dangerous

It increases the chances for a catastrophic war and could damage progressive hopes both here and in Russia.

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Don’t Play It for Laughs: A Q&A With Armando Iannucci

The filmmaker on his latest film The Death of Stalin, his own politics, and how satirists ought to respond to President Trump.

Column

Stormy Daniels 60 Minutes

Stormy Daniels Going Public Is Pussy Grabbing Back

Could Donald Trump become a victim of his own licentiousness?

Emma Gonzalez takes moment of silence at March for Our Lives

Why the Right Mocks the Parkland Survivors

The attacks on the Florida teens are designed to humiliate, threaten, and dehumanize.

Patricia J. Williams

Laura Ingraham Bully

Laura Ingraham Picks On Parkland High School Student

Letters

Letters From the April 30-May 7, 2018, Issue

Bills and strikes… Cold as ICE…

Feature

Is Dutch Bad Boy Thierry Baudet the New Face of the European Alt-Right?

His apocalyptic rhetoric is a hit among voters anxious about national identity and suspicious of the EU.

Sebastiaan Faber

How the #NeverAgain Movement Is Disrupting Gun Politics

The gun-control movement has never been able to talk about race—until now.

Martin Luther King Jr.: 50 Years Later

Activists today are taking up Dr. King’s mantle and reviving the Poor People’s Campaign.

Michael K. Honey

Books & the Arts

The Missed Opportunity of the Kerner Report

A new history recovers the forgotten legacy and radical implications of the Kerner Commission.

William P. Jones

In Marx’s Republic

Did Capital offer us visions of freedom as well as domination?

Joyce J. Scott’s Coexisting Forces

Scott’s art is unabashedly political, broaching subjects like guns, racism, and misogyny. It’s also gorgeous, rich with tactile materials, color, and an attention to light.

Jillian Steinhauer

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