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January 14-21, 2019, Issue
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Feature
The Pentagon’s strategy for global supremacy could bankrupt the country and spark a world war.
Progressives must fight strategically to improve it—if they don’t, the consequences could be devastating.
Progressives were on the move this year, and they weren’t just resisting Trump—they were outlining the alternative to Trumpism.
The important demand that CNN rehire Hill has obscured much of the actual content of his speech.
Editorial
Democrats can no longer get away with offering milquetoast solutions.
Public outrage over US-Saudi relations may put an end to war—and serve as an important lesson for progressives.
Anti-discrimination and affirmative-action rules don’t help the Americans who need them the most.
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Column
What futures can we imagine when we no longer trust our senses?
Even fact-checking sites feel the need to try and find balance where there is none.
Books & the Arts
Heike Geissler’s Seasonal Associate offers an unsparing portrait of a German Amazon warehouse.
A new history of the Cold War examines how the 45 years of peace between its rival superpowers were also 45 years of killing for much of the rest of the world.
On the rapper’s new album, FM !, he relishes any opportunity to inject gravity and grim contradiction into pure party jams.
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Letters
Beyond family… Fox lite… One more lesson… No nukes are good nukes… Laying waste…