Print Magazine December 2/9 2019, Issue Cover art by: Victor Juhasz Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue Editorial My Friend’s Husband Joined the Racist Brexit Party. Help! Another reader asks why they got fired after they’d already quit. Liza Featherstone Yang Doesn’t Add Up The presidential candidate is great at identifying problems, but his policy proposals need a lot of work. John Nichols Why Democrats Need to Stop Worrying and Love the Deficit Delivering on big progressive ideas like Medicare for All and the Green New Deal will never happen until Democrats get over their fear of red ink. Marshall Auerback Comix Nation ignore this… Read More Jen Sorensen Column How Will Americans Remember Donald Trump? If the past is prologue, Trump will face no historical reckoning for his sprawling malfeasance. Aaron Ross Coleman Lindsey Graham, Legal Scholar Calvin Trillin Letters Letters From the December 2/9, 2019, Issue The truth about lies… Fixing a supreme injustice… Our Readers and Eric Alterman Feature Secret US Intelligence Files Provide History’s Verdict on Argentina’s Dirty War Recently declassified documents constitute a gruesome and sadistic catalog of state terrorism. Peter Kornbluh Surviving Indonesia’s Antigay Clampdown They met, fell in love, and were nearly torn apart in a country where LGBTQ people are increasingly persecuted. Nicole Einbinder and Gabriela Bhaskar We Asked the 2020 Contenders How They Plan to Tackle Inequality A surging egalitarian current is shifting the Democratic Party’s policy mainstream—so we asked the presidential candidates about it. Sam Pizzigati Books & the Arts From ‘outside voices, please’ Valerie Hsiung Ted Chiang’s Sci-Fi Goes Beyond the Promise of Technology In his short story collection Exhalation, he builds social worlds where every character and object is deeply intertwined in history and in future possibility. Stephen Kearse How Should We Remember the Puritans? In his new book, Daniel Rodgers not only offers a close reading of Puritan history but also seeks to rescue their early critique of market economy. Andrew Delbanco In ‘Succession,’ Who Is the Joke Really On? The show is heralded as a nuanced and cutting critique of the 1 percent. But whose side is it really on? Erin Schwartz Recent Issues See All "swipe left below to view more recent issues"Swipe → October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 June 2024 May 2024 See All x
My Friend’s Husband Joined the Racist Brexit Party. Help! Another reader asks why they got fired after they’d already quit. Liza Featherstone
Yang Doesn’t Add Up The presidential candidate is great at identifying problems, but his policy proposals need a lot of work. John Nichols
Why Democrats Need to Stop Worrying and Love the Deficit Delivering on big progressive ideas like Medicare for All and the Green New Deal will never happen until Democrats get over their fear of red ink. Marshall Auerback
How Will Americans Remember Donald Trump? If the past is prologue, Trump will face no historical reckoning for his sprawling malfeasance. Aaron Ross Coleman
Letters From the December 2/9, 2019, Issue The truth about lies… Fixing a supreme injustice… Our Readers and Eric Alterman
Secret US Intelligence Files Provide History’s Verdict on Argentina’s Dirty War Recently declassified documents constitute a gruesome and sadistic catalog of state terrorism. Peter Kornbluh
Surviving Indonesia’s Antigay Clampdown They met, fell in love, and were nearly torn apart in a country where LGBTQ people are increasingly persecuted. Nicole Einbinder and Gabriela Bhaskar
We Asked the 2020 Contenders How They Plan to Tackle Inequality A surging egalitarian current is shifting the Democratic Party’s policy mainstream—so we asked the presidential candidates about it. Sam Pizzigati
Ted Chiang’s Sci-Fi Goes Beyond the Promise of Technology In his short story collection Exhalation, he builds social worlds where every character and object is deeply intertwined in history and in future possibility. Stephen Kearse
How Should We Remember the Puritans? In his new book, Daniel Rodgers not only offers a close reading of Puritan history but also seeks to rescue their early critique of market economy. Andrew Delbanco
In ‘Succession,’ Who Is the Joke Really On? The show is heralded as a nuanced and cutting critique of the 1 percent. But whose side is it really on? Erin Schwartz