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Feature
Washington’s New African-American Museum Shows How Black History Shaped the American Experience
The most recent and cutting-edge scholarship informs the exhibits.
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
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How the Active Many Can Overcome the Ruthless Few
Nonviolent direct action was the 20th century’s greatest invention—and it is the key to saving the earth in the 21st century.
Bill McKibben
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Donald Trump’s Looming Mass Criminalization
The only way to quickly deport 3 million immigrants is to first make them into criminals—and he’ll have the tools to do so on day one.
Seth Freed Wessler
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Editorial
We Need to Kill the Electoral College
It’s a foul remnant of 18th-century oligarchs and slaveholders, designed to thwart the will of the people.
John Nichols
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How to Understand the Struggle for Black Freedom After Emancipation
Five important books tell the tale.
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
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After Fidel Castro, What Comes Next?
Castro’s death comes at a particularly delicate stage in the ongoing effort to normalize Cuba-US relations.
Peter Kornbluh
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Column
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Books & the Arts
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Bruce Springsteen’s Redemption Song
The musician delivers a flawed but exquisitely moving and detailed new memoir.
David Hajdu
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Would Politics Be Better Off Without Anger?
Martha Nussbaum’s new book about the dangers of anger tells us more about the limits of the liberal mindset than the actual world of politics.
Amia Srinivasan
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Wideman’s Ghosts
A profound sense of hope and despair haunts John Edgar Wideman’s new work of nonfiction.
Jesse McCarthy
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Letters
Letters From the December 19-26, 2016, Issue
Return of the repressed… Book therapy… Happily enough ever after… Dylan revisited… Bentham’s revenge…
Our Readers and Samuel Moyn
