January 28-February 4, 2019, Issue
Cover art by: Reuters / Jean-Paul Pelissier (photo)
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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
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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
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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
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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.
John Nichols
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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 decades.
The Nation
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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
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Facebook Is a Social Menace
The tech giant will spy for anyone with the cash to buy your secrets.
Eric Alterman
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Books & the Arts
Eyewitness to the German Revolution
Victor Klemperer’s dispatches from interwar Germany.
Peter E. Gordon
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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
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‘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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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
