How the Alt-Right Uses Social Science to Make Racism Respectable

It’s a strategy long in the making.

Khalil Gibran Muhammad

How a Bureaucrat Helped Save the Affordable Care Act

Andy Slavitt traveled the country explaining to some 35,000 Americans how ACA repeal would harm them. And it worked.

Joshua Holland

Why Claudia Rankine Writes for the Resistance

The poet and essayist sees this as a moment of opportunity, not just struggle.

Collier Meyerson

In Elections, Every Small Group Can Make a Big Difference

Need proof? Look at what 31st Swing Left did in Virginia.

Joan Walsh

Donald Trump’s Ruling Passions

Driven by publicity and money, Trump wields prejudice to serve his aims.

David Bromwich

This Cruel Parody of Representation

Under Donald Trump, the Republican Party has acted decisively on urgent problems by not acting at all.

Marilynne Robinson

Carmen Yulín Cruz Is a Politician on the Rise

The Puerto Rican politician has emerged as one of Trump’s most effective foes.

George Zornick

In the Age of Trump, Tania Unzueta Is Holding Democrats to Account

Unzueta is fighting to make Chicago a real sanctuary city.

Julianne Hing

The Death Cult of Trumpism

Through racism and nationalism, Trump leverages tribal resentment against an emerging manifest common destiny.

Greg Grandin

We Are Living Through the Moment When Women Unleash Decades of Pent-Up Anger

Let’s hope there’s no going back.

Katha Pollitt

‘If We Lose Our Health Care, We Will Begin to Die’

Disability activists are at the forefront of direct action against Trump.

Zoë Carpenter

The Year I Stopped Breathing: On Being Muslim and American in the Age of Trump

Trump didn’t invent Islamophobia, but he has injected it with a new and lethal force.

Moustafa Bayoumi

Colin Kaepernick Has Shown That Courage Is Contagious

And sports, of all things, has become an arena of tenacious resistance.

Dave Zirin

How Rebecca Solnit Became ‘the Voice of the Resistance’

She has focused for many years on cruel systems that oppress the working class, people of color, and women.

John Nichols

For Zephyr Teachout, Losing an Election Was Just the Start of a New Fight

In the past year, she’s taken on Trump, Google, the FCC, and the New York State Senate.

D.D. Guttenplan

The Resistance to Trump Will Be Local

Strong community makes it harder to win by being a jerk and a bully.

Bill McKibben

Marcus Raskin, an Activist Heart and Soul

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 Nation

3 Reasons Why Republicans Will Let the Rich Abuse the Tax Code

The GOP tax bill creates a vast and easy game for accountants to play.

Mike Konczal

The Orange Menace—and the Even More Dangerous Party That Stands With Him

Trump isn’t chiefly responsible for the wholesale damage being done to the country. The primary culprit is the GOP.

Robert L. Borosage

The Reality-Show President, Season One

Featuring meltdowns, tantrums, betrayals and racism. What happens next?

Laila Lalami

Trump Is Winning the War on Truth

Lying presidents aren’t new, but Trump’s mendacity stands apart.

Eric Alterman

Trump as Genius

Calvin Trillin

Paul Kingsnorth’s England

In two new novels and a recent collection of essays, the English environmentalist and activist captures a country coming apart.

Christopher de Bellaigue

The Precarious Generation

It’s not the kids these days that we need to worry about, but the world their parents helped build.

Sarah Jones

Errol Morris’s Paranoid Style

In Wormwood, the filmmaker reminds us that sometimes skepticism is the only thing we can trust.

Evan Kindley

Lil Peep’s Optimist Love Songs

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.

Bijan Stephen

Letters From the January 29-February 5, 2018, Issue

Turning Texas blue?

Our Readers

Puzzle No. 3453

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto