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January 16-23, 2017, Issue

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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.

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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…

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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

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January 16-23, 2017, Issue

Editorial

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

Declassify the Evidence of Russian Hacking!

Normalizing Denial: Trump, Tillerson, and Climate Reality

Column

Pax Trumpanica?

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

Letters

Letters From the January 16-23, 2017, Issue

Feature

The Democratization of US Foreign Policy

America Must Choose Diplomacy Over War

How Progressives Can Change Middle East Policy

American Foreign Policy Has an Empathy Problem

How American Exceptionalism Has Undermined Foreign Policy

The Importance of Diplomacy in a World of Multiple Power Centers

The 2016 Progressive Honor Roll

Progressive Values Don’t Stop at the Water’s Edge

Books & the Arts

Light and Love From Year-End Movies

Polanyi In Our Times

Ellen Cantor’s Perpetual Revisions

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