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

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

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

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 Purdy

Letters From the July 31-August 7, 2017, Issue

Friend in the end… Pyrrhic impeachment… Defending the fourth estate… Backlash as whiplash…

Our Readers

Puzzle No. 3437

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto