July 16-23, 2018, Issue
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Feature
Americans Are Sick of Endless War
With years of foreign-policy failures, why has so little changed?
Stephen Miles
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Will the Foreign-Policy Establishment Learn From Trump’s Election Victory?
The elites have reinforced a global order in which the “winners” are protected and the “losers” are ignored.
Robert L. Borosage
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Nuclear Weapons Pose the Ultimate Threat to Mankind
A growing number of movements are dedicated to making sure they’re banned.
Betsy Taylor
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China’s Bigger Economic Threat
Would the US be better off helping stabilize the Chinese economy, rather than gearing up for a trade war?
Walden Bello
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A World for All of Us, Not Just the Billionaires
To fight today’s extreme inequality, we must strengthen the coalition of progressive democrats and challenge the global oligarchy.
Bernie Sanders
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Snapshots of Our Bloated Military Budget
The Pentagon has seriously misplaced priorities.
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Extreme Inequality Creates Global Disorder
And it’s a problem that can only have a political solution.
James K. Galbraith
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It’s Time for the United States to Adopt a New Humanitarian Grand Strategy
Rather than continue along our current path of retreat, the country must dedicate itself to responding to—and preventing—global crises.
Madeline Rose
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No More Blank Checks for War
With Trump in the White House, Congress must reassert its role in governing the use of military force.
Rep. Barbara Lee
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Climate Change Is Our Most Critical National-Security Challenge
To face it, Washington needs to end the subsidies that enrich the hydrocarbon industry.
Bill McKibben
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How to Challenge the Elite Consensus for Endless War
There’s only one way: We have to harness the energy of millions of fed-up voters.
Andrew J. Bacevich
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Why We Need a Wider Foreign-Policy Debate
The establishment consensus has failed. Citizen intervention can change that.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Congress Must Act to Stop US Involvement in the Yemen War
By partnering with conservatives to rein in presidential overreach, progressive advocates for peace are laying the groundwork for a sea change in US foreign policy.
Rep. Ro Khanna
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Editorial
‘The Menace Is Inequality’: A Conversation With Podemos’s Pablo Iglesias
The general secretary of Spain’s leading leftist party discusses how to confront global capitalism.
Winnie Wong
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Why the Supreme Court’s Voter-Purge Ruling Is So Damaging
The Husted decision fuels the GOP voter-suppression campaign—but citizens have a chance to fight back in this fall’s midterms.
John Nichols
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Donald Trump Owns Zero Tolerance
But both Democrats and Republicans have criminalized immigration.
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Column
The Generational Trauma of Separating Families
The roots of Trump’s child-detention policy are in American history.
Patricia J. Williams
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The Death of Philip Roth’s ‘Lox and Bagels’ Judaism
The novelist’s life tracked the rise and fall of a golden age of secular American Jewry.
Eric Alterman
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Books & the Arts
What Will the State Look Like in an Era of Ecological Disaster?
Hobbes for an age of accelerated climate change.
Alyssa Battistoni
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How Did Vietnam Transform White Supremacy?
Kathleen Belew’s sobering new history tracks the hidden relationship between the war and a resurgence in racial violence.
Patrick Blanchfield
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Letters
Letters From the July 16-23, 2018, Issue
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