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February 8, 2016 Issue
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Feature
In 2012, DREAMers were once cajoling Democrats to be more creative and aggressive. In 2016, they’re leaders in both Bernie and Hillary’s campaigns.
Not Defense Secretary Ashton Carter—while he may be more than a figurehead, “the building” has no boss.
In the South, we’re building a broad, new movement rooted in right and wrong, not left and right.
Editorial
But we must not take the survival of the nuclear deal for granted, because it still has many powerful opponents.
The author and TV host on King’s most important year.
With integrity and principle, the Vermont senator is calling Americans to a political revolution.
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Column
Some of the worst offenders against the First Amendment are religious colleges.
Books & the Arts
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights has all the markers of a Salman Rushdie novel, but it’s not a great book.
A recent book shows that, before Antonin Scalia, dissents were valuable to the Court. Now they may be endangering the institution.
A 17th-century map reinforces what few other than historians of China have known: It was an open and diverse world with a long tradition of maritime commerce.
Two museum exhibitions emphasize possible approaches to how an artist can navigate the oceans of photography around us.
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Letters
Justice for Laquan—and Chicago… honoring the antiwar left… oh me, oh my, O’Malley… he who shall not be named… the Paris agreement scam… we heard you!…