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Feature
How the Failure of Our Foreign Wars Fueled Nativist Fanaticism
For nearly two centuries, US politicians have channeled extremism outward. But the frontier is gone, the empire is faltering, and the chickens are coming home to roost.
Greg Grandin
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A Tale of Two Cities in the Grips of the Opioid Crisis
Vancouver and Philadelphia are both facing overdose epidemics—but one city has found a way to keep people alive.
Maia Szalavitz
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Elizabeth Warren Is Not Afraid of the Democrats
The 2020 presidential candidate has a long track record of opposing lobbyists, billionaires, the Republicans—and her own party.
George Zornick
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I’m an 18-Year-Old Gun-Reform Activist and School-Shooting Survivor—Here’s Why I Still Have Hope
We’re not doing this because we want to. We’re doing it because we have to.
Mollie Davis
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Editorial
Help! I’m Infatuated With Another Professor. Can I Ask Her Out Without Being a Jerk?
Another reader asks if he should discourage his wife from air travel to reduce emissions.
Liza Featherstone
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Trump’s ‘National Emergency’ Is a Hot Legal Mess
That should bode well for lawsuits challenging Trump’s emergency declaration—if judges follow legal principles instead of politics.
Elie Mystal
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Salvador Allende Offers a Way Out for Venezuela’s Maduro
Chile’s dead president has some advice from beyond the grave.
Ariel Dorfman
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Column
Are We Witnessing the End of News?
If you think the media are in trouble now, just wait till there’s a recession.
Eric Alterman
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Books & the Arts
The Claustrophobic World of Anna Burns’s ‘Milkman’
Her Man Booker–winning novel offers a haunting look at daily life during The Troubles.
Erin Schwartz
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The Southern Paradox: The Democratic Party Below the Mason-Dixon Line
Why and how the region switched from being the stronghold of one party to the base of its adversary.
Michael Kazin
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Earl Sweatshirt’s Relentless Introspection
On Some Rap Songs, Earl excavates hard truths about himself and his heritage, and the results are dazzling and gut-wrenching.
Stephen Kearse
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