Print Magazine July 31-August 7, 2017, Issue Cover art by: Curt Merlo. Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue Editorial I Tried to Use My Privilege to Defend a Stranger From Racism—and I Might Have Made the Situation Worse And a reader with radical dreams is trapped in a lame nonprofit job. Liza Featherstone How Can We Ensure Survival in a New Era of Nuclear Brinkmanship? The era of amnesia is over—if we needed a wake-up call, the North Korean ICBM test supplied it with a vengeance. Michael T. Klare Wait, You Want Health Insurance Companies to Cover Sick People? But how’s that profitable? Tom Tomorrow Venus Williams, a Car Accident, and the Outrageous Police Response The tennis legend was publicly blamed for a man’s death, only to be exonerated thanks to TMZ. Something is wrong with this picture. Dave Zirin Democrats Must Become America’s Anti-Gerrymandering Party The opposition party should embrace a sweeping reform agenda that embraces the promise of voting rights, competitive elections, and genuinely representative democracy. John Nichols Column Donald Jr. Meets the Russians Calvin Trillin Hey, Democratic Candidates: Pro-Choice Women Are Your Base Running an anti-choice candidate might pick up a few Republican votes—at the expense of turning off the party’s loyal voters. Katha Pollitt Letters Letters From the July 31-August 7, 2017, Issue Friend in the end… Pyrrhic impeachment… Defending the fourth estate… Backlash as whiplash… Our Readers Feature This Chicago Politician Is Showing How to Govern From the Left In 2015, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa became the city’s youngest alderman. Then he really began breaking ground. D.D. Guttenplan The Caravan Against Fear Is Fighting Trump’s Border Wall Resistance, in this environment, is at least as much about crafting alternative stories of community and humanity. Sasha Abramsky American Democracy Is Now Under Siege by Both Cyber-Espionage and GOP Voter Suppression The same Republicans who benefited from Russian hacking in the 2016 election have been suppressing the vote for years. Ari Berman Books & the Arts Eppur si muove Rowan Ricardo Phillips November Nocturne Rowan Ricardo Phillips The Spirit of Prog Rock Its creative ambitions were engulfed by its pretensions. David Hajdu Martin Luther’s Revolution The Protestant Reformation transformed not just Christianity but also our political and economic worlds. Elizabeth Bruenig A Billionaires’ Republic American democracy has always been threatened by concentrations of wealth as much as those of power. Jedediah Britton-Purdy Recent Issues See All "swipe left below to view more recent issues"Swipe → December 2024 November 2024 October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 See All x
I Tried to Use My Privilege to Defend a Stranger From Racism—and I Might Have Made the Situation Worse And a reader with radical dreams is trapped in a lame nonprofit job. Liza Featherstone
How Can We Ensure Survival in a New Era of Nuclear Brinkmanship? The era of amnesia is over—if we needed a wake-up call, the North Korean ICBM test supplied it with a vengeance. Michael T. Klare
Wait, You Want Health Insurance Companies to Cover Sick People? But how’s that profitable? Tom Tomorrow
Venus Williams, a Car Accident, and the Outrageous Police Response The tennis legend was publicly blamed for a man’s death, only to be exonerated thanks to TMZ. Something is wrong with this picture. Dave Zirin
Democrats Must Become America’s Anti-Gerrymandering Party The opposition party should embrace a sweeping reform agenda that embraces the promise of voting rights, competitive elections, and genuinely representative democracy. John Nichols
Hey, Democratic Candidates: Pro-Choice Women Are Your Base Running an anti-choice candidate might pick up a few Republican votes—at the expense of turning off the party’s loyal voters. Katha Pollitt
Letters From the July 31-August 7, 2017, Issue Friend in the end… Pyrrhic impeachment… Defending the fourth estate… Backlash as whiplash… Our Readers
This Chicago Politician Is Showing How to Govern From the Left In 2015, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa became the city’s youngest alderman. Then he really began breaking ground. D.D. Guttenplan
The Caravan Against Fear Is Fighting Trump’s Border Wall Resistance, in this environment, is at least as much about crafting alternative stories of community and humanity. Sasha Abramsky
American Democracy Is Now Under Siege by Both Cyber-Espionage and GOP Voter Suppression The same Republicans who benefited from Russian hacking in the 2016 election have been suppressing the vote for years. Ari Berman
Martin Luther’s Revolution The Protestant Reformation transformed not just Christianity but also our political and economic worlds. Elizabeth Bruenig
A Billionaires’ Republic American democracy has always been threatened by concentrations of wealth as much as those of power. Jedediah Britton-Purdy