Print Magazine February 25-March 4, 2019, Issue Cover art by: Ryan Inzana Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue Editorial Howard Schultz Tests His Centrist Messaging ignore this… Read More Peter Kuper Let’s Get Paid Family Leave Right Even the paid-leave programs in the US that exist fall short of what’s needed. Bryce Covert Trump Is Launching a New, Terrifying Arms Race Withdrawing from the INF Treaty will take us into dangerous territory not visited since the Cold War. Michael T. Klare For Trump’s Regime Changers, Venezuela Is Just the First Step The other big target on their hit list is Cuba. Peter Kornbluh Warren’s Push for a Wealth Tax Could Be a Game Changer Americans are hungry for bold measures to tackle income inequality. Katrina vanden Heuvel Black Culture Won’t Save Kamala Harris After eight years of Obama’s winks and nods, the code-switching playbook has been played out. Aaron Ross Coleman Column She’s With Stupid Sure, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slips up sometimes–but have you listened to her Republican colleagues? Katha Pollitt Howard Schultz May Run for President Calvin Trillin Letters Letters From the February 25-March 4, 2019, Issue Populism is everywhere… A worthy subject… Après le déluge… Our Readers Feature What Rydell High School Can Teach Us about the LA Teachers Strike As teachers in Denver and Oakland head toward their own strikes, it’s worth doubling down on the lessons from LA. Sarah Jaffe Inside the Secretive US Air Campaign In Somalia Since Trump took office, figuring out whom the US is killing and why has become nearly impossible. Amanda Sperber Who Is Matt Duss, and Can He Take On Washington’s ‘Blob’? Bernie Sanders’s foreign-policy adviser is part of a new generation of progressives fighting an entrenched status quo. David Klion Books & the Arts The Weight and Power of Kiese Laymon’s ‘Heavy’ His memoir is an affecting chronicle of both hope and despair in the American South. Bijan Stephen Saving the Children Julia Alvarez How Did the Constitution Become America’s Authoritative Text? A new history of the early American republic recasts the origins of originalism and how the Constitution gained its “fixed” status. Karen J. Greenberg The Making of Our Polluted Age Three new books examine how the rise of coal, oil, and gas has permanently remade our world. Bill McKibben Reckoning With the Man Who Sold Architecture to the Masses A new biography explores how Philip Johnson’s career transformed architecture into the celebrity-obsessed and market-driven field it’s become. Kate Wagner Recent Issues See All "swipe left below to view more recent issues"Swipe → October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 June 2024 May 2024 See All x
Let’s Get Paid Family Leave Right Even the paid-leave programs in the US that exist fall short of what’s needed. Bryce Covert
Trump Is Launching a New, Terrifying Arms Race Withdrawing from the INF Treaty will take us into dangerous territory not visited since the Cold War. Michael T. Klare
For Trump’s Regime Changers, Venezuela Is Just the First Step The other big target on their hit list is Cuba. Peter Kornbluh
Warren’s Push for a Wealth Tax Could Be a Game Changer Americans are hungry for bold measures to tackle income inequality. Katrina vanden Heuvel
Black Culture Won’t Save Kamala Harris After eight years of Obama’s winks and nods, the code-switching playbook has been played out. Aaron Ross Coleman
She’s With Stupid Sure, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slips up sometimes–but have you listened to her Republican colleagues? Katha Pollitt
Letters From the February 25-March 4, 2019, Issue Populism is everywhere… A worthy subject… Après le déluge… Our Readers
What Rydell High School Can Teach Us about the LA Teachers Strike As teachers in Denver and Oakland head toward their own strikes, it’s worth doubling down on the lessons from LA. Sarah Jaffe
Inside the Secretive US Air Campaign In Somalia Since Trump took office, figuring out whom the US is killing and why has become nearly impossible. Amanda Sperber
Who Is Matt Duss, and Can He Take On Washington’s ‘Blob’? Bernie Sanders’s foreign-policy adviser is part of a new generation of progressives fighting an entrenched status quo. David Klion
The Weight and Power of Kiese Laymon’s ‘Heavy’ His memoir is an affecting chronicle of both hope and despair in the American South. Bijan Stephen
How Did the Constitution Become America’s Authoritative Text? A new history of the early American republic recasts the origins of originalism and how the Constitution gained its “fixed” status. Karen J. Greenberg
The Making of Our Polluted Age Three new books examine how the rise of coal, oil, and gas has permanently remade our world. Bill McKibben
Reckoning With the Man Who Sold Architecture to the Masses A new biography explores how Philip Johnson’s career transformed architecture into the celebrity-obsessed and market-driven field it’s become. Kate Wagner