July 3-10, 2017, Issue

Cover art by: Tim O’Brien

Feature

Lisa, Laquanda, Machelle, and Kenya Were Sentenced as Children to Die in Prison

Decades later, a Supreme Court ruling could give them their freedom.
Danielle Wolffe
The Troubled Resentencing of America’s Juvenile Lifers

When SCOTUS outlawed mandatory juvenile life without parole, advocates celebrated—but the outcome has been anything but fair.
Jessica Pishko
A Progressive Electoral Wave Is Sweeping the Country

The Trump-obsessed big media are mostly ignoring it, but Bernie-inspired activists are winning across the country—including in districts that went for Trump in 2016.
John Nichols
Daring to Dream in the Age of Trump

Resistance is necessary, but it’s not enough to win the world we need.
Naomi Klein

Editorial

Asking for a Friend: How Can a Working-Class Person Like Me Change the Democrats?

And another reader is struggling with Trump-induced anxiety.
Liza Featherstone
Can Berniecrats Reclaim the Democratic Party?

Activists at this year’s diverse and optimistic People’s Summit think so.
D.D. Guttenplan
Who’s Dividing Us?

Jen Sorensen
Labour’s Near-Triumph Brings a New Morning to British Politics

Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership offered an end to austerity, a commitment to the public good, the faith that generosity is more powerful than greed.
Maria Margaronis
Donald Trump’s Withdrawal From the Paris Accords Is a Crime Against Humanity

This is murder—even if Trump’s willful ignorance of climate science prevents him from seeing it as such.
Mark Hertsgaard
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Column

A Question for Paul Ryan

Calvin Trillin
Burning Down the House

Trump’s climate policy ignores our impending—and shared—global disaster.
Patricia J. Williams
Lying About Climate Change Is What Makes a Good Republican

Yet instead of holding the Koch brothers’ lackeys to account, the media says the GOP’s murder-suicide policy can be chalked up in part to “Democratic hubris.”
Eric Alterman

Books & the Arts

E.P. Thompson’s Search for a New Popular Front

Despite a lifetime of political disappointments, the historian never gave up on the prospects of a broad left-wing social movement.
Stefan Collini
What Caused the Russian Revolution?

How historians narrate 1917 tells us as much about their politics as it does about what we can learn from the revolution’s failures.
Sophie Pinkham
Wonder Women

If you’re looking for a heroine at the movies this summer, you should look beyond the latest superhero story.
Stuart Klawans
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