August 29-September 5, 2016 Issue

Features

Is Brand New Congress the Future of Progressive Politics?

The goal is audacious: harness the enthusiasm and fund-raising muscle of the Sanders campaign to elect an entirely new Congress committed to the same platform.

D.D. Guttenplan
‘They’re Coming for the Ones You Love’: My Weekend of Gun Training in the Desert

At Front Sight Firearms Training Institute, fear is a booming business.

Patrick Blanchfield
The School-Security Industry Is Cashing In Big on Public Fears of Mass Shootings

A spike in spending on high-tech security is diverting educational funds from districts across the country.

Sasha Abramsky

Editorials

Asking for a Friend: Should I Put Up a Black Lives Matter Sign in Our Lily-White Neighborhood?

And another inquirer could move into the middle class by buying a house—but not without gentrifying.

Liza Featherstone
Courts Hand Down Smashing Victories for Voting Rights

These are significant wins, across six states—but 15 other states still have restrictions in place for the fall elections.

the Editors
The Best Defense Against Donald Trump

Well, that backfired.

Steve Brodner
What Does Black Lives Matter Want? Now Its Demands Are Clearer Than Ever

After a year of planning, members of the movement have released a comprehensive platform.

Dani McClain
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Books and the Arts

Before the 1 Percenters, There Were the Uzedas

In The Viceroys, Frederico De Roberto’s novel of the Risorgimento, the Uzeda family corrupts everything it touches.

Frederika Randall
Brand Yeezy

To what extent can Kanye West continue to foreground the commercial components that make his art possible before we no longer consider him an artist at all?

Angela Flournoy
Never-Endings

Georges Perec’s books are designed to stir readers to think actively, freshly, and imaginatively about what could have been, and what might come next.

Joanna Scott
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