August 1-8, 2016 Issue

Editorial

The One Thing That Unites All Americans

Didn’t see that coming.
Jen Sorensen
What’s Wrong With the Democratic Platform

It has good language on many issues, but it lacks an overarching vision.
John Nichols
Black Lives Still Matter

In order to truly ensure that, we will have to confront the broader culture of violence that has long gripped this nation.
Kai Wright
Asking for a Friend: I’m Very Privileged—Can I Still Apply for Fellowships Meant to Help People of Color?

And a white person wonders how best to express solidarity with a friend suffering from the rise in xenophobia.
Liza Featherstone
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Column

As Israel Drifts Further to the Right, ‘Haaretz’ Remains a Beacon for the Left

The daily paper is thriving, in part by shining a light in places many would prefer not to see.
Eric Alterman
After a Week of Killings

Calvin Trillin
Letter From the Palestine Festival of Literature

I had gone to Palestine expecting to see occupation and degradation, but I had not expected to witness my own privilege so starkly.
Laila Lalami

Books & the Arts

Lies After the War

Miller Oberman
Nicole Eisenman’s Path to Genius

In the early 2000s, the painter rediscovered a strain of modernism that doesn’t aspire to purity or certainty, but rather is willing to remain, as de Kooning once put it, “wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity.”
Barry Schwabsky
Europe’s Other Migration Crisis

Eastern European countries are attempting to deter immigration today for the same reason they tried to halt emigration a century ago: to protect themselves as ethnic nations.
John Connelly
Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices

At a time when populism is in vogue, the Nobel Laureate has gone in the opposite direction. We need to read her and listen to the people she hears.
John Palattella
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