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

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

The Democratic Presidential Field

Calvin Trillin

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

Letters From the December 30, 2019/January 6, 2020 Issue

Debating Biden… Andrew Yang’s fuzzy math…

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Puzzle No. 3518

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto