Print Magazine August 12-19, 2019, Issue Cover art by: Atossa Araxia Abrahamian (top); Yongyut Kumsri (bottom) Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue 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… Our Readers 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 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
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
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
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
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