Socialism in America Is Closer Than You Think

Experiments with public ownership are thriving across the country. The challenge is to link them and scale them up.

Gar Alperovitz

Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote

From the crime bill to welfare reform, policies Bill Clinton enacted—and Hillary Clinton supported—decimated black America.

Michelle Alexander

What Do Cubans Think of Normalization With the United States?

They’re divided, by generation and class, over whether it will be a good thing.

Sujatha Fernandes

How Populists Like Bernie Sanders Should Talk About Racism

To mobilize a multiracial coalition, progressives need to demonstrate how racism hurts us all.

Ian Haney-López and Heather McGhee

The Race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination Is Just Beginning

A long, tough, honest campaign focused on issues and strategy is a good thing.

the Editors

The US Has Its Own Refugee Crisis—One We Created, and Now Must Solve

We know how to help children fleeing violence in Central America. Instead, we’re raiding communities and deporting families.

Elizabeth Holtzman

Comix Nation

Matt Bors

The Obama Administration Recklessly Escalates Confrontation With Russia

By quadrupling military spending on NATO’s forces on Russia’s border, Washington risks turning the new Cold War into a hot one.

Stephen F. Cohen

Why There Will Be No New New Deal

Our political culture has always relied on Trump-style fear and loathing. The Roosevelt era is the exception that proves the rule.

Eric Alterman

Villain of the Month

Calvin Trillin

It’s the Racism, Stupid

The GOP establishment can’t freak out about Trump now. It’s been playing his game for decades, just more artfully.

Gary Younge

Escape From the DPRK

How Yeonmi Park, a North Korean defector, became a controversial globe-trotting celebrity on the stage of international human rights.

E. Tammy Kim

Freedom of Speech v. Civility

Does the speech of students warrant the same First Amendment protections enjoyed by adults?

Joan Wallach Scott

“Circling Birdies”

John Kinsella

Human Nature Shines Through

Garth Greenwell’s exquisite first novel outlines the shape of desire by filling in everything around it.

Damon Galgut

Memories of the Mao Era

Ji Xianlin’s memoir is the most widely read account of the Cultural Revolution in China. Has it changed the country’s amnesia about its bloody past?

Chenxin Jiang

Letters From the February 29, 2016, Issue

Hunger pains… waging good journalism… Nader’s debaters…

Our Readers and Liza Featherstone

Puzzle No. 3390

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto