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Why the Children Fleeing Central America Will Not Stop Coming

At the root of the border crisis is a wave of violence that the United States helped to create.

Óscar Martínez

Should Buying Sex Be Illegal?

The so-called “Swedish model” banning the purchase but not the sale of sex is catching on in Europe. But does it work? And for whom?

Michelle Goldberg

The Real Solution to Wealth Inequality

Both Republicans and Democrats want to solve economic insecurity by giving people more purchasing power. There’s a better solution.

Mike Konczal and Bryce Covert

Wringing Detroit Dry

Detroit residents are fighting austerity for all of us.

John Nichols

Comix Nation

Eli Valley

Snapshot: A Suffocating Silence

John Minchillo

Israel Must Stop Its Campaign of Terror

As world leaders fail to end the bloodletting in Gaza, it is up to civil society to demand justice for Palestinians.

The Editors

Why Is Washington Risking War With Russia?

Kiev’s siege of the Donbass, supported by the Obama administration, is escalating an already perilous crisis. 

Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen

Why It’s Time to Repeal the Religious Freedom Restoration Act

The law, passed in 1993 with near-unanimous support, has become an excuse for bigotry, superstition and sectarianism.

Katha Pollitt

The ‘New York Times’ Editorial Board Calls for the Legalization of Marijuana

Calvin Trillin

Spina’s Shadow

“Darling, this is Alessandro Spina, who is trying to make Italians feel guilty about their colonial crimes.”

André Naffis-Sahely

The Corners

Karen Solie

Comforting Vacuums

In Stories We Tell, actor turned director Sarah Polley interrogates her past, revealing that our stories are our dearest form of property.

Akiva Gottlieb

Little Boxes

Micro-apartments have become trendy in planning circles, but their austerity is just another limit on the aspirations of the poor.

Michael Sorkin

In Our Orbit: A Tolerance for Ambiguity

In The Good Spy, Kai Bird documents the life of CIA agent Robert Ames, a sincere and unlikely mediator in the Middle East.

Cecilia D’Anastasio

Letters

Drugs: equal opportunity destroyer… St. Nick to the rescue!… rape on campus… the left and the NRA… climate justice, Texas style… Joyce: a class by himself… a picture = 1,000 words

Our Readers

Puzzle No. 3332

And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto