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March 2/9, 2020, Issue
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Feature
Democratic centrism may not inspire voters nationwide—but in one of the nation’s most conservative states, it can seem downright revolutionary.
The campaign has kept Sasha Baker out of the spotlight, but she wants to shake up the consensus from the inside.
A predatory and extractive financial sector has hollowed out communities across the US.
Editorial
The president’s farm aid lays bare the racial and class implications of his disdain of government assistance.
The author of The Overstory hikes through the Great Smoky Mountains and discusses giving personhood to nonhumans.
Unless they’re stopped, the Democratic establishment will lose another election.
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Column
We shouldn’t let Trump’s war on immigrants deplete our capacity for compassion.
In some ways Trump is more truthful than previous Republican presidents.
Books & the Arts
The New Jersey rapper’s debut album is a showcase for a one-of-a-kind voice.
Focusing on the tensions between top-down reforms and bottom-up democratic discontent, Herrick Chapman’s new history tells a very different story about postwar France.
As he witnessed the dissolution of civil society under a series of repressive governments, the Argentine novelist and critic began recording the most mundane parts of everyday life.
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Letters
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