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August 27-September 3, 2018, Issue

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Editorial

Fake News Poster MAGA Rally

Donald Trump’s Attacks on the Press Are an Attack on Democracy

The president is trying to construct an alternate reality where he alone tells the truth.

‘Random Murder, Rape, and Pillage’: A US Soldier Describes 1968 in Vietnam

Whatever you do, don’t eat the apricots out of a C-ration can.

Collusion Confusion

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Donald Trump Speaks During an Event at the White House

Democrats Shouldn’t Defend Bad Policies Just to Resist Trump

When Trump strikes a populist tone, expose him as a fraud—don’t back the corporate stance.

Robert L. Borosage

Donald Trump shouting at 11-year-old boy

Trump’s War on Children

White House policies form an unprecedented assault on kids—but, of course, not the white kids.

Column

Walking on Regent's Park Lawn

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Letters

Letters From the August 27-September 3, 2018, Issue

In-justice… America’s war habit… Editors’ note… Nicaragua: where the truth lies (web only)…

Our Readers and John Perry

Feature

The Siege of Chicago at 50: Todd Gitlin Remembers

“There was an apocalyptic, confrontational spirit.”

What Is Freedom?

A personal reflection on how a generation tested the meaning of that word in 1968.

Arthur Goldhammer

Mexico’s Tlatelolco Massacre, and Its Echoes Today

Elena Poniatowska, author of an iconic book about those killings, says the 2014 Ayotzinapa disappearances are even more appalling.

Michael K. Schuessler

The Most Interesting and Important Things We Published in 1968

The Nation’s coverage of a pivotal year.

Richard Kreitner

Can Farming Save Puerto Rico’s Future?

As climate change alters how and where food is grown, Puerto Rico’s agroecology brigades serve as a model for sustainable farming.

Books & the Arts

Mel Chin’s Social Surrealism

Lamentations and revivals.

Barry Schwabsky

In Tony Kushner’s America

When it first debuted, Angels in America helped mark the rising fortunes of the gay-rights movement in the 1990s and early 2000s. What does it tell us about today?

The Making of 20th-Century New York

The history of America's extreme metropolis captures a city caught between radicalism and reaction.

Kim Phillips-Fein

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