August 15-22, 2016 Issue

Cover art by: Karl-Raphael Blanchard

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Feature

Welcome to Brazil, Where a Food Revolution Is Changing the Way People Eat

How the country challenged the junk-food industry and became a global leader in the battle against obesity.
Bridget Huber
Brazil For Sale: How a Legal Coup Set the Stage for Privatization

More austerity and the sell off of treasured public assets will worsen an already crippling recession.
Andy Robinson
Budget Failures, Displacement, Zika—Welcome to Rio’s $11.9B Summer Olympics

The disaster in Brazil is an extreme version of what happens when the International Olympic Committee comes to town.
Dave Zirin
The Future of Philanthropy

Is a new gospel of giving on the rise? Eight philanthropic thinkers weigh in.
Various Contributors

Editorial

These Policies Could Move America Toward a Universal Basic Income

Small steps, big benefits.
Mike Konczal
Is Trump’s Style of Politics the New Normal for the GOP?

Trump’s policies are repellent, but the real danger comes from the acceptance of menace and ridicule as substitutes for political debate.
D.D. Guttenplan
How Hillary Clinton Made History

Throughout her career, she’s won over rivals, critics, even enemies. That’s how a woman has to do it.
Joan Walsh
Against Neo-McCarthyism

In their eagerness to defeat Trump, liberal pundits are reviving a damaging discourse.
the Editors
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Column

Unsubstantiated Roger Ailes Rumor 

Calvin Trillin
The Labour Party’s Spectacular Self-Destruction

The establishment would rather gut the party than allow Jeremy Corbyn to lead it.
Gary Younge
Hey, Roger Ailes, You’re Fired!

Will the Fox News CEO’s downfall signal a sea change in cable news reporting?
Eric Alterman

Books & the Arts

Will the Public Internet Survive?

For Scott Malcomson, the Web is slowly being redefined according to the old political maps of nation-states.
Tekendra Parmar
The ‘Ghostbusters’ Trolls Were Right

In one sense: The jokes do change when the characters are women, who incite you to laugh through a graveyard of America’s bloody history.
Stuart Klawans
Máirtín Ó Cadhain: Found in Translation

They way to see the author’s satire of small-village life whole is to see the translations multiplied.
Aaron Thier
Kill List

Amit Majmudar
The Donald Trump Blueprint

Trump inhabits interiors in lieu of an interior life and shows them off with hyperbolic self-celebration. Gilt by association!
Michael Sorkin
The Partisan Reviewer

In two recent essay collections, Tim Parks explores why we bother with reading and writing books.
Becca Rothfeld
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