December 31, 2018, Issue

Cover art by: Barry Blitt

Feature

A Mandate for Left Leadership

Lessons from the neoliberal revolution.
Kate Aronoff
The Best Strategy for the House Dems? Fight for Major Reforms.

Sure, the Senate will block them. But pushing things like a Green New Deal and Medicare for All will energize grassroots activists and supercharge the coming presidential primary.
Robert L. Borosage
The White House Has Hosted a Predators’ Ball of Corruption

Here’s how the incoming Democratic Congress can expose it and make the case for bold reform.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
War With Russia?

The New Cold War is more dangerous than the one the world survived.
Stephen F. Cohen

Editorial

The Refugee Cycle

Jen Sorensen
Your Ex Sucks, but Capitalism Sucks More

Another reader asks about her trash-talking 10-year-old son.
Liza Featherstone
George H.W. Bush, Icon of the WASP Establishment—and of Brutal US Repression in the Third World

Obituaries have transformed the terror that Bush inflicted, depicting it as heroism.
Greg Grandin
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Column

Actual Journalism Is Under an Asymmetrical Attack

Far-right media isn’t playing by the same rules.
Eric Alterman
Give Your Heart Out!

A list of 10 charitable organizations to help out this holiday season.
Katha Pollitt
Staffing the Administration

Calvin Trillin

Books & the Arts

If I Were to Rise Up All Colorless,

Laura Eve Engel
In America’s Panopticon

Sarah Igo’s The Known Citizen examines the linked histories of privacy and surveillance in the United States.
Katie Fitzpatrick
Keith Gessen’s Portrait of a Moscow Caught Between Two Worlds

His new novel, A Terrible Country, offers a heartbreakingly intimate glimpse into contemporary Russian life.
Gregory Afinogenov
HBO’s Hauntingly Faithful Adaptation of ‘My Brilliant Friend’

The TV series is just as unflinching and intimate as Elena Ferrante’s novel.
Sarah Marshall
You Need to Know About boygenius

A new indie rock supergroup sums up the best of the genre’s recent women-led wave.
Olivia Horn
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