February 25-March 4, 2019, Issue
Cover art by: Ryan Inzana
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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
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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
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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
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Editorial
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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
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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
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For Trump’s Regime Changers, Venezuela Is Just the First Step
The other big target on their hit list is Cuba.
Peter Kornbluh
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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
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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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Column
She’s With Stupid
Sure, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slips up sometimes–but have you listened to her Republican colleagues?
Katha Pollitt
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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
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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
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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
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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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Letters
Letters From the February 25-March 4, 2019, Issue
Populism is everywhere… A worthy subject… Après le déluge…
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