Teach for America Has Gone Global, and Its Board Has Strange Ideas About What Poor Kids Need

In India, school funding is sorely lacking, but Teach for India just wants to transform attitudes.

George Joseph

This Group Pioneered the Fight for $15. Can They Transform the Fight for Affordable Housing Too?

New York Communities for Change wants to remake New York in a more equal image.

Sarah Jaffe

The GOP’s War on Voting Is Working

Wisconsin and Minnesota are case studies in the difference between Republican and Democratic rule.

Ari Berman

The Grassroots Movement to Dump Trump

Anti-Trumpism is now a cause capable of bringing thousands of people out to protest.

Sasha Abramsky

If Black Men Want to Heal Racism’s Wounds, We Can’t Pretend to Be Strong All the Time

We’re proud that we’ve survived. But we should be honest about the costs.

Mychal Denzel Smith

The Supreme Court’s Dramatic Left Turn

Scalia’s death and Kennedy’s willingness to change his mind had enormous consequences.

David Cole

Britain Is in Danger of Becoming a Zombie State

There is one path back from the abyss—but it’s a narrow one.

D.D. Guttenplan

How Brexit Could Avert a New Cold War

Could the people’s vote force the EU to lighten its destructive austerity and lead NATO to reconsider its increasingly reckless posture toward Russia?

Katrina vanden Heuvel

What the Democrats Must Learn From Brexit About Free-Trade Deals

Sanders and Clinton are right to oppose the TPP, and the Democratic Party should do the same.

John Nichols

Brexit Divorce Proceedings

Calvin Trillin

More Bad News for Newspapers

A new report reveals a deepening crisis for democracy as digital media hasten the decline of print.

Eric Alterman

The 2 Things Britain Can’t Leave in the EU

Hint: They’re both real problems that Brexit has likely worsened.

Gary Younge

Instagram and the Fantasy of Mastery

A “look” is a kind of instant style: quickly executed and dispatched, immediately understood and overcharged with incident. It is time for a new view.

Ricky D’Ambrose

The Big Friendly Director

Steven Spielberg, who has never shown much interest in human-scaled cinema, makes his self-portrait three stories tall in The BFG.

Stuart Klawans

15 Short Texts in Search of Hilla Becher

One of the creations of her and her husband’s artistic partnership was the seemingly perfect fusion of their visions.

Jana Prikryl

Letters From the July 18-25, 2016, Issue

London calling… Sign of the times?… Connecting the dots… Left to her own devices?… Live long and… prosper?… GOP Humpty Dumpty…

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Puzzle No. 3402

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto