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Feature
How Medicaid Expansion Is Transforming Politics As We Know It
Even in deep-red states, voters vigorously defend the program—and they know which party is attacking it.
Bryce Covert
At the Center of the Impeachment Debate Stands a Constitutional Scholar
Representative Jamie Raskin has been training for the Trump impeachment inquiry his whole life.
John Nichols
Impeachment Needs to Move to the Streets
Only mass protests can turn a narrow Beltway scandal into a massive anti-Trump weapon.
Jeet Heer
Editorial
Advice, From One Giant of 20th Century Literature to Another
Kurt Vonnegut’s 1967 entreaty to José Donoso.
Kurt Vonnegut
Bashing the Poor and Protecting the Rich: What SNAP ‘Reform’ Means
Nearly a million children could risk going hungry.
Sasha Abramsky
The US Is Deporting Asylum Seekers to Random, Dangerous Countries
The move to offshore would-be asylees is a new low in the Trump administration’s war on immigrants.
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
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Column
‘Bothsidesism’ Is Poisoning America
Zealous coverage of political point scoring doesn’t help anyone outside Washington.
Laila Lalami
Why Is the Media So Obsessed With Michael Bloomberg?
The 77-year-old billionaire was a terrible mayor of New York City who only exacerbated inequality.
Eric Alterman
The Democratic Presidential Field
Calvin Trillin
Books & the Arts
The Deep Roots of Liberal Democracy’s Crisis
A new history of North Atlantic democracies argues that they were already undergoing a serious crisis more than four decades ago.
Richard J. Evans
The Radical Life and Times of Crystal Eastman
A new biography reveals how the feminist, pacifist, labor activist, and socialist fused the best strains of American leftism into one.
Vivian Gornick
Toni Morrison’s Revolution in American Literature
As with Pilate, the fierce outsider and moral conscience of
Song of Solomon
, Morrison never asked for the proverbial seat at the table. Instead, she pulled the entire table over to her side of the room.
Jesse McCarthy
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