January 16-23, 2017, Issue

Feature

The Democratization of US Foreign Policy

It’s the only way to stop a dangeous imperialist tradition.
Jeffrey D. Sachs
America Must Choose Diplomacy Over War

This is what a non-imperial, truly internationalist foreign policy would look like.
Phyllis Bennis
How Progressives Can Change Middle East Policy

We must seek a stable balance of power, not coercive dominance.
Hillary Mann Leverett
American Foreign Policy Has an Empathy Problem

We need to understand the perspectives of important actors clearly enough to calculate the likely consequences of our actions.
Robert Wright
How American Exceptionalism Has Undermined Foreign Policy

End-of-history triumphalism will get us nowhere as the new century advances.
Patrick Lawrence
The Importance of Diplomacy in a World of Multiple Power Centers

None of the major powers have the capacity to overrule the others, but each has the ability to frustrate the designs of rivals.
Michael T. Klare
The 2016 Progressive Honor Roll

Yes, it’s been an awful year. But the untold story is that grassroots activists have actually frequently prevailed.
John Nichols
Progressive Values Don’t Stop at the Water’s Edge

Our foreign-policy alternative should be based on people’s actual concerns, not the made-up “crises” Washington think tanks cook up.
Stephen Miles

Editorial

Trump Is Capitalizing on the Anxiety Caused by the End of Steady Employment

Liberals should speak to workers’ experience of precarity.
Mike Konczal
Declassify the Evidence of Russian Hacking!

The debate over possible intervention in the election should be based on publicly disclosed evidence, not unverifiable, anonymous leaks.
The Nation
Normalizing Denial: Trump, Tillerson, and Climate Reality

A political culture that can accommodate Exxon’s climate denial is a political culture ripe for Trump.
Wen Stephenson
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Column

Pax Trumpanica?

Calvin Trillin
You Might Not Be in the Mood to Give. But This Is When Your Support Is Needed Most.

Government support for the needy will get scarcer—so your holiday donations will be more important than ever.
Katha Pollitt

Books & the Arts

Light and Love From Year-End Movies

Retrieve what you like, during these darkest weeks of a very dark year.
Stuart Klawans
Polanyi In Our Times

What the Austro-Hungarian economic theorist tells us about the upheavals of our age.
Nikil Saval
Ellen Cantor’s Perpetual Revisions

The artist’s final film tested her belief that love could be stronger than the will to power.
Barry Schwabsky
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