July 29-August 5, 2019, Issue

Cover art by: Barry Blitt

Feature

There’s One Heresy That Sets Bernie Apart From All Other Dem Contenders to Unseat Trump

And it’s not simply that he calls himself a socialist.
Greg Grandin
Donald Trump and the Plot to Take Over the Courts

How the 45th president has packed the courts with ultraconservatives—and reshaped the judiciary for a generation.
Elie Mystal

Editorial

There Are Too Few Companies and Their Profits Are Too High

As industries get more concentrated, businesses have to do less to earn more.
Mike Konczal
On Not Looking Away

All perpetrators ask is that we remain bystanders. But to combat complicity, we must confront tragedy.
Arran Skinner
The Supreme Court Is in Danger of Again Becoming ‘the Grave of Liberty’

Supreme Court decisions have practical consequences, which justices too often blithely ignore.
Eric Foner
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Column

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Calvin Trillin
Artificial Intelligence Is Failing Humans

When someone’s always watching, we lose our sense of self.
Patricia J. Williams
To Fight Trump, Take to the Streets!

The Trump administration gets more malicious, harmful, and absurd every day. So why aren’t many of us outside protesting?
Katha Pollitt

Books & the Arts

Is ‘Veep’ Still Funny?

The show’s vicious political satire defined a decade of comedy, but its last season lacked the same punch.
Erin Schwartz
The Worlds of Kathleen Collins

The quiet brilliance of her films and fiction was found in her ability to to place the interior and subjective in the context of the social and political.
Farah Jasmine Griffin
The Class Politics of the Civil War

By naming a common enemy—the privileged class of slaveholders—the Republican Party and Union Army were able to build and then steer a coalition of Americans toward the systematic destruction of slavery.
James Oakes
Solvitur Ambulando

Timothy Donnelly
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