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July 29-August 5, 2019, Issue
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Feature
And it’s not simply that he calls himself a socialist.
How the 45th president has packed the courts with ultraconservatives—and reshaped the judiciary for a generation.
Editorial
As industries get more concentrated, businesses have to do less to earn more.
All perpetrators ask is that we remain bystanders. But to combat complicity, we must confront tragedy.
Supreme Court decisions have practical consequences, which justices too often blithely ignore.
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Column
When someone’s always watching, we lose our sense of self.
The Trump administration gets more malicious, harmful, and absurd every day. So why aren’t many of us outside protesting?
Books & the Arts
The show’s vicious political satire defined a decade of comedy, but its last season lacked the same punch.
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.
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.
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Letters
In defense of aesthetes… The imperfect vs. the irredeemable… Pigs in space…
