March 5, 2018, Issue

Cover art by: Nurul Hana Anwar

Feature

‘It Becomes Your Job to Provide the Girlfriend Experience’: Women’s Stories of Work in Food Service

Whether they’re waitresses, bartenders, hostesses, or fast-food workers, the women who serve our food and drinks face routine sexual harassment.
Bryce Covert
When Harassment Is the Price of a Job

As decades of activism meet the #MeToo moment, could the food-service industry be poised for sweeping change?
Bryce Covert
3 Strategies to Get to a Fossil-Free America

None of them rely on Washington to do anything useful.
Bill McKibben

Editorial

Work Requirements Failed Once, and They’ll Fail Again

Requiring Medicaid recipients to find employment is a cruel solution to a nonexistent problem.
Bryce Covert
If Watergate Happened With Today’s Media

Jen Sorensen
Another Trump Failure: Infrastructure

The president’s latest proposal does nothing to change the fact that he has failed to deliver on the American people’s top priority.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Reasons Why White Women Vote Republican—and What to Do About It

White women do not—and likely will not—constitute the progressive base. But many more of them might vote Democratic in the coming elections.
Julie Kohler
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Books & the Arts

When We Were Shepherds

Caki Wilkinson
The Presidential Empire

Has the American presidency become overwhelmed by its ever-expanding powers?
Karen J. Greenberg
Organized Labor’s Lost Generations

Unions have struggled to make substantial gains since the ’70s, but not for the reasons historians think.
Gabriel Winant
Abbas Kiarostami’s Posthumous Poem

In the Iranian filmmaker's last film, he has figured out a new way to stretch time.
Stuart Klawans
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