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August 31-September 7, 2015 Issue

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Editorial

What Roger Ailes Really Thinks of Donald Trump

Fox News set Trump up to fail at the first GOP debate. So why is he still on top?

Eric Alterman

From New Orleans to Ferguson, a Decade of Asserting Black Lives Matter

We’ve learned that the moment black people stop saying our lives matter, our lives will cease to matter.

Melissa Harris-Perry and James Perry

Donald Trump Is the Only Game in Town For Today’s GOP

The other candidates just look like pallid imitations, too wary of offending the party’s alienated base to risk disagreeing with the blond bloviator.

D.D. Guttenplan

Why Maria Ochoa Has Crossed the Desert 100 Times

An interview with the cofounder of Tucson Samaritans.

Sasha Abramsky

Black Lives Matter Is a Demand, Not a Plea

The movement’s protests targeting Bernie Sanders have provoked heated debate among progressive politicos—and that’s just fine.

Kai Wright

Letters

Letters From the August 31-September 7, 2015, Issue

Sanders Speaks Is The Nation so anxious to sell Bernie Sanders to its readers that it publishes John Nichols’s interview with him in its July 20/27 issue [“Bernie Sanders Speaks”]… Read More

Our Readers and Richard Kreitner

Feature

Ten Years Since: A Meditation on New Orleans

We are black and alive, still, despite what the pictures say.

Kristina Kay Robinson

Why the Lower Ninth Ward Looks Like the Hurricane Just Hit

The neighborhood’s stalled recovery is the self-fulfilling prophecy of political leaders who wrote it off from the start.

Gary Rivlin

A Movement Lab in New Orleans

The 10-year fight for a just recovery from Hurricane Katrina has driven a surge in innovative, progressive organizing.

Jordan Flaherty

The Rebirth of Black Rage

From Kanye to Obama, and back again.

Mychal Denzel Smith

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August 31-September 7, 2015 Issue

Editorial

What Roger Ailes Really Thinks of Donald Trump

From New Orleans to Ferguson, a Decade of Asserting Black Lives Matter

Donald Trump Is the Only Game in Town For Today’s GOP

Why Maria Ochoa Has Crossed the Desert 100 Times

Black Lives Matter Is a Demand, Not a Plea

Letters

Letters From the August 31-September 7, 2015, Issue

Feature

Ten Years Since: A Meditation on New Orleans

Why the Lower Ninth Ward Looks Like the Hurricane Just Hit

A Movement Lab in New Orleans

The Rebirth of Black Rage

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The Work of Art in the Age of Spectacular Reproduction

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