Print Magazine July 4-11, 2016 Issue Cover art by: Edel Rodriguez. Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue Editorial Elizabeth Warren’s Fight Against Payday Lenders Comes to the Post Office We could save Americans millions with postal banking. Bryce Covert We Need a Radical Movement for Gun Control When the normal political system fails, it’s time to act up! The Editors Please Don’t Stop the Music The Orlando shooter violated a sanctuary, but his desecration will not defeat us. Richard Kim Column An Explanation of Trump’s Explanation of His Attack on Judge Curiel Calvin Trillin The Trumpification of Cable News In a desperate grab for ratings, MSNBC and CNN are giving Trump exactly what he wants: endless validation. Eric Alterman We Are Each Other’s Keepers That’s why it’s important for Muslim organizations to not only denounce Islamophobia but also to work on ending the hate directed at LGBT people. Laila Lalami Letters Letters From the July 4-11, 2016, Issue Bern on vs. Bern out… Establishment fetishism… The past as precedent… Correction! Our Readers Feature From Zika to Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs: Welcome to the New Age of Contagions Today’s deadly new pathogens aren’t just a scientific challenge, they’re a political one. Sonia Shah Federal Officials Ignored Years of Internal Warnings About Deaths at Private Prisons Following a Nation investigation into lax medical care, the Justice Department is finally moving to end its reliance on for-profit prison operators. Seth Freed Wessler The Genius of Jane Jacobs, Who Changed the Way We Think About Cities She argued in favor of local wisdom and community visions over the grandiose designs of distant planners. Roberta Brandes Gratz Books & the Arts More Repossession Than Revival A new form of critical drama comes to Broadway, remaking brave claims for the confident expression of degraded peoples. Alisa Solomon A James Brown Book Like No Other Kill ’Em and Leave is a stunningly unorthodox book, indifferent to the conventions of biographical nonfiction. David Hajdu The Odd Couple Through their editorial work on the writings of Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno and Gershom Scholem forged an unlikely friendship. Peter E. Gordon 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
Elizabeth Warren’s Fight Against Payday Lenders Comes to the Post Office We could save Americans millions with postal banking. Bryce Covert
We Need a Radical Movement for Gun Control When the normal political system fails, it’s time to act up! The Editors
Please Don’t Stop the Music The Orlando shooter violated a sanctuary, but his desecration will not defeat us. Richard Kim
The Trumpification of Cable News In a desperate grab for ratings, MSNBC and CNN are giving Trump exactly what he wants: endless validation. Eric Alterman
We Are Each Other’s Keepers That’s why it’s important for Muslim organizations to not only denounce Islamophobia but also to work on ending the hate directed at LGBT people. Laila Lalami
Letters From the July 4-11, 2016, Issue Bern on vs. Bern out… Establishment fetishism… The past as precedent… Correction! Our Readers
From Zika to Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs: Welcome to the New Age of Contagions Today’s deadly new pathogens aren’t just a scientific challenge, they’re a political one. Sonia Shah
Federal Officials Ignored Years of Internal Warnings About Deaths at Private Prisons Following a Nation investigation into lax medical care, the Justice Department is finally moving to end its reliance on for-profit prison operators. Seth Freed Wessler
The Genius of Jane Jacobs, Who Changed the Way We Think About Cities She argued in favor of local wisdom and community visions over the grandiose designs of distant planners. Roberta Brandes Gratz
More Repossession Than Revival A new form of critical drama comes to Broadway, remaking brave claims for the confident expression of degraded peoples. Alisa Solomon
A James Brown Book Like No Other Kill ’Em and Leave is a stunningly unorthodox book, indifferent to the conventions of biographical nonfiction. David Hajdu
The Odd Couple Through their editorial work on the writings of Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno and Gershom Scholem forged an unlikely friendship. Peter E. Gordon