Print Magazine January 16-23, 2017, Issue Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue 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 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 Letters Letters From the January 16-23, 2017, Issue Reading the future in the past… Onward?… Data matters… An old debate, renewed… Our Readers 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 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 Recent Issues See All "swipe left below to view more recent issues"Swipe → December 2024 November 2024 October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 See All x
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
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
Letters From the January 16-23, 2017, Issue Reading the future in the past… Onward?… Data matters… An old debate, renewed… Our Readers
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
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