January 28-February 4, 2019, Issue

Cover art by: Reuters / Jean-Paul Pelissier (photo)

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.
Dawn Paley
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.
David Adler
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

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
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.
John Nichols
Comix Nation

Peter Kuper
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 decades.
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Column

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.
Katha Pollitt
Facebook Is a Social Menace

The tech giant will spy for anyone with the cash to buy your secrets.
Eric Alterman
A Presidential Negotiating Stance

Calvin Trillin

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

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