December 31, 2018, Issue
Cover art by: Barry Blitt
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Feature
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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
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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
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War With Russia?
The New Cold War is more dangerous than the one the world survived.
Stephen F. Cohen
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Editorial
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Your Ex Sucks, but Capitalism Sucks More
Another reader asks about her trash-talking 10-year-old son.
Liza Featherstone
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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
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Give Your Heart Out!
A list of 10 charitable organizations to help out this holiday season.
Katha Pollitt
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Books & the Arts
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In America’s Panopticon
Sarah Igo’s The Known Citizen examines the linked histories of privacy and surveillance in the United States.
Katie Fitzpatrick
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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
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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
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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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Letters
Letters From the December 31, 2018, Issue
The perils of make-work… Government workers, unite!… The edible is political (web-only)…
Our Readers and Jon Wiener
