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Feature
How False Equivalence Is Distorting the 2016 Election Coverage
The media’s need to cover “both sides” of every story makes no sense when one side has little regard for the truth.
Eric Alterman
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The National-Security Exposé So Secret Even Edward Snowden Didn’t Know About It
A former senior Pentagon official shows how broken our whistleblower system really is.
Mark Hertsgaard
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What’s Next for Bernie Sanders’s Grassroots Army?
The campaign may be coming to an end, but its activists plan to keep the revolution alive.
D.D. Guttenplan
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The EU Has Turned Greece Into a Prison for Refugees
The grief, frustration, and need that have washed up on these shores is overwhelming.
Maria Margaronis
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The Era of Rogue Justice After 9/11
We came perilously close to losing our Bill of Rights protections—and the struggle to restore them is not over.
Karen J. Greenberg
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Editorial
The Sanders Campaign Can Still Win a Future to Believe In
Its ideas and energy can lead to an era of progressive governance—if it keeps its eyes on the prize.
the Editors
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‘The Nation’ Has a New President!
Erin O’Mara has a proven ability to balance financial concerns with the mission-based priorities that define our magazine.
Press Room
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Asking for a Friend: I’m Doing Good Things With My Wealth. Why Do I Still Feel So Guilty?
And another woman contemplates marrying her European boyfriend for his healthcare.
Liza Featherstone
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5 Books: University Press Books That Tackle Capitalism From Every Angle
The best books for understanding our modern crises.
Julia Ott
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Still Selling Neoliberal Unicorns: The US Applauds the Coup in Brazil, Calls It Democracy
Washington now has compliant compradores in power in Argentina and Brazil—and perhaps soon in Venezuela.
Greg Grandin
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Column
If Women Were Less Poor, Would There Really Be Fewer Abortions?
Reducing poverty and lowering the abortion rate are two different things—for a reason.
Katha Pollitt
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How to Fight a Fascist and Win
Beating Donald Trump at the polls will be a necessary, but wholly insufficient step.
Gary Younge
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Books & the Arts
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Is the Supreme Court’s Role Overstated?
In Engines of Liberty, David Cole trains a light on civil society as a more reliable agent of constitutional change.
Michael O’Donnell
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The Chameleon Painter
Even in his most pared-down paintings, Philip Guston was digging for something new.
Barry Schwabsky
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The Afterlife of Polaroid
The company presents a case study in photography as a phenomenon of the instantaneous.
Frances Richard
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Letters
Letters From the June 20-27, 2016, Issue
For if dreams die… Thinking big—by thinking small… A chance to apologize… Unfinished or incomplete?…
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