February 25-March 4, 2019, Issue

Cover art by: Ryan Inzana

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

Editorial

Howard Schultz Tests His Centrist Messaging

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
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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
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