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Editorial
Trump May Not Want War With Iran—but the Coalition of the Killing May Give Him One
That’s why it’s critical that the public, Congress, and especially Dems seeking to replace Trump in 2020 speak out against it now.
Bob Dreyfuss
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Donald Trump’s Tax Maneuvers Are Typical for His Class
If there’s a tax-evasion problem, it festers at the top of our income scale. Yet the IRS too often expends its precious resources going after the poor.
Bryce Covert
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Music’s Shift From Analog to Digital Changed Everything
Damon Krukowski’s new book is critique of capitalism disguised as a meditation on playback technology.
Sasha Geffen
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Column
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Eurovision’s Muddled DNA
Pop genetics don’t belong in a musical event—or its marketing.
Patricia J. Williams
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Trump’s Prodigious Lying Threatens Our Democracy
Even after 10,000 falsehoods, many in the media find themselves unable to call a president who lies a liar.
Eric Alterman
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Books & the Arts
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Social Democracy
In her new book, King and the Other America, historian Sylvie Laurent situates the Poor People’s Campaign and Martin Luther King Jr.’s later years in a longer history of black activism and social-democratic thinking.
Robert Greene II
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John Lanchester’s Eerily Resonant Novel About Borders and Rising Sea Levels
His speculative new novel, The Wall, imagines a dystopian future but offers us a warning about our present.
Laila Lalami
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Julius Scott’s Epic About Black Resistance in the Age of Revolution
Modeled after Braudel’s masterpiece on the Mediterranean, The Common Wind helps recovers the radical world of black mariners, rebels, and runaways banding together to realize their freedom.
Manisha Sinha
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The Political Odyssey of Sean Wilentz
How one of America’s original Bernie Bros became an outspoken critic of the left.
Timothy Shenk
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David Treuer’s Monumental History of Native American Life in the 20th Century
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee tells the story of Native life as it flourished amidst hardship.
E. Tammy Kim
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The Inescapable Politics of Climate Change
What we need to know now is not what climate change will do in the future, but what we should about it in the present.
Alyssa Battistoni
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Letters
Letters From the June 3-10, 2019, Issue
A priceless answer… On the record… Corrections and clarifications
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