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Feature
This Washington State Ballot Measure Fights for Both Jobs and Climate Justice
Initiative 1631 would put a carbon fee on big polluters, using the revenue to invest in clean energy and protections for workers in fossil-fuel industries.
Sasha Abramsky
Journalism in the Age of Trump: What’s Missing and What Matters
Has the preoccupation with the president pushed aside other urgent stories?
Michael Massing
In the Age of Disaster Capitalism, Is ‘Survival Socialism’ the Solution?
A look at the British Labour Party’s plan to transform the economy from the ground up.
Laura Flanders
Editorial
My Houseguest Was a Brocialist Jerk. How Should I Respond?
Another reader asks if it’s helpful to offer to be a personal suicide hotline.
Liza Featherstone
Parsing the Surreal From the Sensible in Trump’s Helsinki Performance
He made many bizarre comments, but he is right to want to reduce tensions with Russia.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Keeping Kavanaugh off the Supreme Court
Senate confirmation of Trump’s pick is not a done deal, and a quick look at the judge’s influences tells you why it shouldn’t be.
Bruce Shapiro
Comix Nation
Peter Kuper
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Column
How the Trump Administration Is Normalizing Immigrant Internment Camps
If the Muslim ban is any guide, an idea that was once considered insane will soon become acceptable.
Laila Lalami
Seymour Hersh Against the World
Our most valuable living investigative reporter disdained those who cozied up to power.
Eric Alterman
Trump Baby Over London
Calvin Trillin
Books & the Arts
Eight Slateku
John Lee Clark
Fashion’s Cycle
Rosa Alcala
Can Charles Mills Save Liberal Philosophy From Itself?
In his new book, the philosopher argues that political theory has obscured the history of racism in liberal societies.
Christopher Lebron
Aline Kominsky-Crumb’s Radical Honesty
In her books, the cartoonist constantly reworks the raw materials of her life.
Jillian Steinhauer
Kamasi Washington’s Love Letter
Heaven and Earth
is a bold step in Washington’s attempt to make music that explores deeper states of consciousness.
Marcus J. Moore
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Letters
Letters From the August 13-20, 2018, Issue
Reader interventions… Giant step…
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 3472
Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
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