Print Magazine December 30, 2019/January 6, 2020 Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue 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 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 Letters Letters From the December 30, 2019/January 6, 2020 Issue Debating Biden… Andrew Yang’s fuzzy math… Our Readers 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 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 tabl... Jesse McCarthy Recent Issues See All "swipe left below to view more recent issues"Swipe → December 2024 November 2024 October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 See All x
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
‘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
Letters From the December 30, 2019/January 6, 2020 Issue Debating Biden… Andrew Yang’s fuzzy math… Our Readers
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
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 tabl... Jesse McCarthy