Print Magazine April 9, 2018, Issue Cover art by: Edel Rodriguez Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue Editorial A New Chance for Journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal On March 27, Mumia’s lawyers will go to court again. Seth Tobocman The West Virginia Teachers Strike Shows That Winning Big Requires Creating a Crisis The strikers won all five of their demands by shutting down every public school in the state. Jane McAlevey It’s Time to Abolish ICE A mass-deportation strike force is incompatible with democracy and human rights. Sean McElwee Column It’s Time to Stop Fixating on Punishment Trump’s call to execute drug dealers is bizarre and irrational, but so is our criminal-justice system. Kai Wright Gary Cohn, Populist Calvin Trillin Why Is the Op-Ed Page of ‘The New York Times’ Obsessed With College Kids? The “newspaper of record” should expect more from its conservative hires. Eric Alterman Letters Letters From the April 9, 2018, Issue Octopus’s garden… Is trust-busting enough?… Old justice made new… A nation of ignorance… Our Readers Feature It Has Been 210 Days Since Amanda Morales Last Saw the Sun For the undocumented mother of three, taking sanctuary in a church seemed the best way to keep her family together. Cinthya Santos Briones and Laura Gottesdiener and Malav Kanuga Human Rights Are Not Enough We must also embrace the fight against economic inequality. Samuel Moyn For Trump, Cruelty Is the Point The White House’s immigration policies are designed to maximize suffering. Julianne Hing Think the War in Syria Is Winding Down? Think Again. The conflict, having long since fallen into the hands of foreigners, is flying along on its second wind. Charles Glass Books & the Arts Courage Nate Klug Translating an Autopsy, or To the Man Autopsied Into 99 Pages José A. Rodríguez The Women of Wages for Housework A new book edited by Silvia Federici and Arlen Austin helps capture the excitement and ideas of a movement that had modest origins but spread around the world within several ... Sarah Jaffe John Ashbery’s Day Job The poet as art critic. Barry Schwabsky Music for Dark Times MGMT and Poliça’s new albums offer songs of solace and alarm. Bijan Stephen Recent Issues See All "swipe left below to view more recent issues"Swipe → October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 June 2024 May 2024 See All x
A New Chance for Journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal On March 27, Mumia’s lawyers will go to court again. Seth Tobocman
The West Virginia Teachers Strike Shows That Winning Big Requires Creating a Crisis The strikers won all five of their demands by shutting down every public school in the state. Jane McAlevey
It’s Time to Abolish ICE A mass-deportation strike force is incompatible with democracy and human rights. Sean McElwee
It’s Time to Stop Fixating on Punishment Trump’s call to execute drug dealers is bizarre and irrational, but so is our criminal-justice system. Kai Wright
Why Is the Op-Ed Page of ‘The New York Times’ Obsessed With College Kids? The “newspaper of record” should expect more from its conservative hires. Eric Alterman
Letters From the April 9, 2018, Issue Octopus’s garden… Is trust-busting enough?… Old justice made new… A nation of ignorance… Our Readers
It Has Been 210 Days Since Amanda Morales Last Saw the Sun For the undocumented mother of three, taking sanctuary in a church seemed the best way to keep her family together. Cinthya Santos Briones and Laura Gottesdiener and Malav Kanuga
For Trump, Cruelty Is the Point The White House’s immigration policies are designed to maximize suffering. Julianne Hing
Think the War in Syria Is Winding Down? Think Again. The conflict, having long since fallen into the hands of foreigners, is flying along on its second wind. Charles Glass
The Women of Wages for Housework A new book edited by Silvia Federici and Arlen Austin helps capture the excitement and ideas of a movement that had modest origins but spread around the world within several ... Sarah Jaffe