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January 28-February 4, 2019, Issue

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Editorial

School Is Crushing My Daughter’s Spirit. What Should I Do?

Another reader asks what she can do about an acquaintance who drunkenly groped her on New Year’s Eve.

Liza Featherstone

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It’s Accountability Time for the Orange Menace

Trump’s ablest critics are positioned to issue subpoenas, compel key administration figures to face questioning, and expose failed policies and egregious conflicts of interest.

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Farewell, Norman Birnbaum, 1926–2019

For those of us who worked with Norman, it’s hard to imagine The Nation without him. He contributed articles, editorials, and reviews to our pages for an astounding six de...

Column

Pelosi Ocasio-Cortez Hug

The End of Likability Politics

The nasty women of America are delivering on their promises—and they don’t care what their conservative male colleagues think.

Mark Zuckerberg testifies to Congress

Facebook Is a Social Menace

The tech giant will spy for anyone with the cash to buy your secrets.

Trump speaks in Pennsylvania

A Presidential Negotiating Stance

Letters

Letters From the January 28-February 4, 2019, Issue

Fuzzy math… Where there’s smoke… The real George Bush… Thanks, but no thanks (web only)…

Our Readers and Ben Ehrenreich

Feature

Will Mexico’s New President Seek Justice for the Disappeared?

Thousands are missing in the country’s drug war—many of them seized by government security forces.

Meet Europe’s Left Nationalists

The rise of leaders like Sahra Wagenknecht and Jean-Luc Mélenchon marks a momentous turn against free movement in Europe—at the expense of immigrants.

Sanders Institute Gathering

The Ideas Primary

US presidential contests may seem never-ending, but if the debate is about policy—instead of personality—is that such a bad thing?

Robert L. Borosage

Books & the Arts

Eyewitness to the German Revolution

Victor Klemperer’s dispatches from interwar Germany.

Peter E. Gordon

Is Populism What’s Really Threatening Democracy?

What many liberal commentators miss about the growing crisis of liberal democracy rippling through Europe and the Americas.

‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Makes a Spectacle of Nostalgia

The second season of Amy Sherman-Palladino’s show is stuck in its comfort zone.

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