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January 29-February 5, 2018, Issue
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Feature
It’s a strategy long in the making.
Andy Slavitt traveled the country explaining to some 35,000 Americans how ACA repeal would harm them. And it worked.
The poet and essayist sees this as a moment of opportunity, not just struggle.
Need proof? Look at what 31st Swing Left did in Virginia.
Driven by publicity and money, Trump wields prejudice to serve his aims.
Under Donald Trump, the Republican Party has acted decisively on urgent problems by not acting at all.
The Puerto Rican politician has emerged as one of Trump’s most effective foes.
Unzueta is fighting to make Chicago a real sanctuary city.
Through racism and nationalism, Trump leverages tribal resentment against an emerging manifest common destiny.
Let’s hope there’s no going back.
Disability activists are at the forefront of direct action against Trump.
Trump didn’t invent Islamophobia, but he has injected it with a new and lethal force.
And sports, of all things, has become an arena of tenacious resistance.
She has focused for many years on cruel systems that oppress the working class, people of color, and women.
In the past year, she’s taken on Trump, Google, the FCC, and the New York State Senate.
Strong community makes it harder to win by being a jerk and a bully.
Editorial
He was a man at ease in his own skin, though not in the world, which he constantly sought to change for the better.
The GOP tax bill creates a vast and easy game for accountants to play.
Trump isn’t chiefly responsible for the wholesale damage being done to the country. The primary culprit is the GOP.
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Column
Featuring meltdowns, tantrums, betrayals and racism. What happens next?
Lying presidents aren’t new, but Trump’s mendacity stands apart.
Books & the Arts
In two new novels and a recent collection of essays, the English environmentalist and activist captures a country coming apart.
It’s not the kids these days that we need to worry about, but the world their parents helped build.
In Wormwood , the filmmaker reminds us that sometimes skepticism is the only thing we can trust.
Gustav Åhr was emo-rap’s most visible representative and the genre’s most mainstream success, but what set his music apart was not its despair but its deep sense of hope.
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