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Editorial

My Black Mentee Is Embarrassed by My Whiteness. What Should I Do?

Another reader asks, “How can I gain my girlfriend’s respect?”

Liza Featherstone

The Green New Deal Is This Generation’s Moon Shot

Sending humans to the moon was a choice. Saving the earth is a necessity.

D.D. Guttenplan

Philip Roth’s Great American Estate Sale

The bidding is sparse, but the late author’s modest effects are revealing.

Elizabeth Pochoda

Column

It Doesn’t Matter Whether Trump Is Trying to Distract You

We can’t ignore a president who spews Ku Klux Klan–level rhetoric, but neither can we allow him to colonize our collective imagination.

Eric Alterman

Trump Has Brought Back ‘Conditional Citizenship’

What does citizenship mean if only white people belong in Donald Trump’s America?

Laila Lalami

Go Back Where You Came From: A Coincidence

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Letters From the August 12-19, 2019, Issue

Forgotten history… Debating Biden…

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Feature

Marie Newman Could Shape the Future of the Democratic Party

The congressional candidate in Illinois is challenging incumbent Dan Lipinski’s betrayals—and her party’s conservative tendencies.

Rebecca Grant

Can a New Think Tank Put a Stop to Endless War?

The Quincy Institute will attempt to radically rewrite the DC foreign policy playbook.

David Klion

The Dream of Open Borders Is Real—in the High Arctic

The Norwegian territory of Svalbard has been open to citizens of the world since 1920. But don’t call it a utopia.

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Books & the Arts

Chia-Chia Lin’s Haunting Immigrant Novel

Set in a dreamlike Alaska, The Unpassing examines the hope and tragedy of a Taiwanese-American family.

Larissa Pham

The Republicans’ 50-State Strategy

Alexander Hertel-Fernandez’s State Capture examines the trio of...

Bryce Covert

Bruno Schulz’s Dream Worlds

Born in turn-of-the-century Poland, Schulz lived both longer and better in his books than in real life.

Becca Rothfeld

Vampire Weekend Grows Up

Over a decade since its debut, the band that soundtracked the Great Recession returns with one of its most ambitious albums.

Bijan Stephen

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August 12-19, 2019, Issue

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My Black Mentee Is Embarrassed by My Whiteness. What Should I Do?

The Green New Deal Is This Generation’s Moon Shot

Philip Roth’s Great American Estate Sale

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It Doesn’t Matter Whether Trump Is Trying to Distract You

Trump Has Brought Back ‘Conditional Citizenship’

Go Back Where You Came From: A Coincidence

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Marie Newman Could Shape the Future of the Democratic Party

Can a New Think Tank Put a Stop to Endless War?

The Dream of Open Borders Is Real—in the High Arctic

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Chia-Chia Lin’s Haunting Immigrant Novel

The Republicans’ 50-State Strategy

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