January 11-18, 2016 Issue

Feature

Have California Voters Finally Had Enough of Prop 13?

After decades of strangling the state, the anti-tax revolt may be coming to an end.
Sasha Abramsky
In 2016, the UN Will Be Transformed. Will That Be Enough to Bring It Back to Life?

A new secretary general, a powerful bloc of developing nations, greater transparency—the 70-year-old global organization has a host of opportunities coming up.
Barbara Crossette
Natural Resources Were Supposed to Make Afghanistan Rich. Here’s What’s Happening to Them.

Traveling to Logar Province reveals unmanageable violence and co-optation by foreign companies.
Antony Loewenstein

Editorial

This Modern World

Tom Tomorrow
Why Are the Democrats Burying Their Best Moments?

Their debate was a welcome contrast to GOP bombast and bigotry—but in scheduling it at an inconvenient time, the DNC seemed determined to protect front-runner Hillary Clinton.
The Editors
Shutting Down Planned Parenthood Would Catapult Women Into Poverty

When access to abortion and contraception is denied, low-income women suffer most.
Bryce Covert
The Real Reason Sandra Bland Got Locked Up

As in Ferguson, Waller County and Prairie View are choking residents with court fees in order to fill their coffers in a state without income tax.
Debbie Nathan
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Books & the Arts

Dreamers, Drifters, Mopers, and Defeatists

Adrian Tomine’s universe features a society of contingent values, ill-defined expectations, and diminishing options.
David Hajdu
Is Anxiety the Price We Pay For Freedom?

The neuroscience of fear is incomplete without an account of philosophy and politics.
Simon Wolfe Taylor
How Has Islamic Orthodoxy Changed Over Time?

A new book by the late scholar Shahab Ahmed reveals the capaciousness, complexity, and contradictions of Islam.
Elias Muhanna
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