Print Magazine March 5, 2018, Issue Cover art by: Nurul Hana Anwar Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue 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 ignore this… Read More 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 Column The Way We Talk About Immigration Is Profane Trump’s “shithole” remarks only scratch the surface. Kai Wright Trump Is Making Life Even Harder for Working-Class Women His administration has already made workers, especially women, poorer, less secure, and less safe. Katha Pollitt Trump Interprets the Nunes Memo as Total Vindication Calvin Trillin Letters Letters From the March 5, 2018, Issue Hans and Franz economics… Fear and self-loathing… Millennials vs. boomers… Agree to disagree… Taxation and miseducation… Our Readers 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 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 Recent Issues See All "swipe left below to view more recent issues"Swipe → December 2024 November 2024 October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 See All x
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
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
The Way We Talk About Immigration Is Profane Trump’s “shithole” remarks only scratch the surface. Kai Wright
Trump Is Making Life Even Harder for Working-Class Women His administration has already made workers, especially women, poorer, less secure, and less safe. Katha Pollitt
Letters From the March 5, 2018, Issue Hans and Franz economics… Fear and self-loathing… Millennials vs. boomers… Agree to disagree… Taxation and miseducation… Our Readers
‘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
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