December 2/9 2019, Issue

Cover art by: Victor Juhasz

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

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

Jen Sorensen
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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
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