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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Freedom of Speech v. Civility
Does the speech of students warrant the same First Amendment protections enjoyed by adults?
Joan Wallach Scott
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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
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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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Letters
Letters From the February 29, 2016, Issue
Hunger pains… waging good journalism… Nader’s debaters…
Our Readers and Liza Featherstone
