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May 28, 2018, Issue

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Editorial

Historic Korean Summit Sets the Table for Peace—and US Pundits React With Horror

They were spinning the meeting, and Kim Jong-un’s outreach in particular, as a dangerous event.

Tim Shorrock

Column

Trump Threatens Senator Tester

Calvin Trillin

Never Trumpers Never Mattered

They’re all over the media, but they’re politically insignificant.

Eric Alterman

Ida B. Wells-Barnett Deserves a Bigger Statue

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is extraordinary, and we need more monuments like it.

Patricia J. Williams

Letters

Letters From the May 28, 2018, Issue

The kids are alright…The lady is a champ…A history of decency…Seeing red, feeling blue…

Our Readers

Books & the Arts

ah mulato tu dedo

Mayra Santos-Febres

oh your finger mulatto

Mayra Santos-Febres

Joseph Conrad and the Dawn of Globalization

What passes for civilization is often just refined savagery.

Greg Grandin

from ‘TRIPAS’

Brandon Som

Perry Anderson’s Long Goodbye

In the absence of revolution, Perry Anderson embraces realism.

Bruce Robbins

Mothering Under Capitalism

Jacqueline Rose and the politics of motherhood.

Merve Emre

Timothy Snyder’s Bleak Vision

In The Road to Unfreedom, Snyder’s vision of history driven by rival states and ruthless statesmen undermines his own insistence on the importance of individual responsibi...

Sophie Pinkham

Can Yanis Varoufakis Save Europe?

At a moment when many on the right and left have abandoned the European project, Greece’s former finance minister has other plans for the continent.

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Cardi B’s Best Life

What some would consider missteps, the rapper has turned into the stuff of stardom, and Invasion of Privacy is a momentous testament to perseverance.

Briana Younger