The Lethal Legacy of the Vietnam War

Fifty years after the first US troops came ashore at Da Nang, the Vietnamese are still coping with unexploded bombs and Agent Orange.

George Black

Fifty Years After Bloody Sunday in Selma, Everything and Nothing Has Changed

Racism, segregation and inequality persist in this civil-rights battleground.

Ari Berman

A Contested Primary Is Good for the Candidates, the Democratic Party and Democracy

The issues that matter most to Americans won’t be adequately explored by a coronation of Hillary Clinton.

the Editors

Obama’s Military-Force Resolution Sets the Stage for a New Era of Imperialism

The AUMF has legitimized expanded presidential war-making.

Michael T. Klare

The Necessity of ‘Citizenfour’

A win for the Edward Snowden documentary is a win for democracy.

Ali Gharib

What Happens if You Refuse to Pay Off Your Student Debt?

Fifteen former students of the for-profit Corinthian college chain are launching a debt strike to allow other debtors to do just that.

Michelle Chen

Comix Nation

Jen Sorensen

Snapshot: Rolling Out the Afghan Carpet

Jonathan Ernst

Fifty Shades of Basic

The romance in the film isn’t perverse—and that’s the problem.

Katha Pollitt

Scott Walker, Science and Iowa

Calvin Trillin

Brother From Another Planet

Jean-Luc Godard is still brooding on the end of cinema while imagining its future incarnation.

J. Hoberman

A Volcano of Documents

How the discovery of police archives has altered the memory of political atrocities in Guatemala.

Peter Canby

Dhaka Stories

K. Anis Ahmed’s stringent tales of life in the sprawling capital of Bangladesh.

André Naffis-Sahely

Shelf Life

Khirbet Khizeh is a study in ambiguity of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

Eyal Press

Letters

Black lives more than matter; sharing is creepy; the root of the problem; radical pessimism; one person, no vote; any fool can make a rule…

Our Readers

Puzzle No. 3356

And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto