July 18-25, 2016 Issue
Cover art by: Steve Brodner. Top to bottom: Nicola Sturgeon, David Cameron, Queen Elizabeth II, Alan Johnson, Michael Gove, Peter Mandelson, Arron Banks, Theresa May, Nigel Farage, George Galloway, Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn, and Hillary Benn.
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Feature
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
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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
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The GOP’s War on Voting Is Working
Wisconsin and Minnesota are case studies in the difference between Republican and Democratic rule.
Ari Berman
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The Grassroots Movement to Dump Trump
Anti-Trumpism is now a cause capable of bringing thousands of people out to protest.
Sasha Abramsky
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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
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Editorial
The Supreme Court’s Dramatic Left Turn
Scalia’s death and Kennedy’s willingness to change his mind had enormous consequences.
David Cole
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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
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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
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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
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Column
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More Bad News for Newspapers
A new report reveals a deepening crisis for democracy as digital media hasten the decline of print.
Eric Alterman
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The 2 Things Britain Can’t Leave in the EU
Hint: They’re both real problems that Brexit has likely worsened.
Gary Younge
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Books & the Arts
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
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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
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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
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Letters
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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