February 29, 2016 Issue

Feature

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

Editorial

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
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
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
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Column

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
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

Books & the Arts

Human Nature Shines Through

Garth Greenwell’s exquisite first novel outlines the shape of desire by filling in everything around it.
Damon Galgut
“Circling Birdies”

John Kinsella
Freedom of Speech v. Civility

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