Print Magazine May 8-15, 2017, Issue Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue Editorial Trump’s ‘Extreme’ Budget Is Just Paul Ryan’s Old Bad Plan With a Comb-Over Ryan avoided naming the popular programs that both politicians would cut. Bryce Covert The First 100 Days of Resistance Restored Our Faith in Democracy But progressives must continue to take to the streets—and push Democrats to offer a real alternative. John Nichols Syria Strike Follows Washington’s Failed Foreign-Policy Playbook For those who recognize that Trump cannot bomb his way to peace, it is time to revive and mobilize an antiwar movement. Katrina vanden Heuvel Column An O’Reilly Defender Calvin Trillin The GOP’s Attacks on the Poor Are About to Get Stealthier Are we ready? Kai Wright It’s Not ‘McCarthyism’ to Demand Answers on Trump, Russia, and the Election Using the language of the anticommunist witch hunt for this moment is a mistake. Katha Pollitt Letters Letters From the May 8/15, 2017, Issue Solidarity with striking Harvard workers… Health care for all!… What is feminism?… Resisting the right wing… America’s perpetual wars… Our Readers Feature Back at the Carrier Plant, Workers Are Still Fighting on Their Own Trump’s tax break was not enough. Truly addressing the plight of the American working class means confronting the problems of global capitalism. Sarah Jaffe On April 29, We March for the Future We’ll either save or doom the planet during the Trump administration. Don’t sit the Peoples Climate Mobilization out. Bill McKibben ‘Trump Is Just Tearing Off the Mask’: An Interview with Eric Foner The esteemed American historian talks about his new book, the politics of history, and the meaning of “a usable past.” Richard Kreitner Books & the Arts Obama From the Rearview Mirror The former president didn’t lose the argument with the right; he chose not to wage it. Robert L. Borosage Inside the Birth of a Trump-Inspired Intellectual Magazine Reading through American Affairs, one gets the sense that avoiding policy questions is as much a strategy as a politics. Gideon Lewis-Kraus What America’s 19th-Century Reformers and Radicals Missed A new book on the antebellum period captures the dangers of confusing self-improvement with institutional change. Brenda Wineapple Recent Issues See All "swipe left below to view more recent issues"Swipe → October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 June 2024 May 2024 See All x
Trump’s ‘Extreme’ Budget Is Just Paul Ryan’s Old Bad Plan With a Comb-Over Ryan avoided naming the popular programs that both politicians would cut. Bryce Covert
The First 100 Days of Resistance Restored Our Faith in Democracy But progressives must continue to take to the streets—and push Democrats to offer a real alternative. John Nichols
Syria Strike Follows Washington’s Failed Foreign-Policy Playbook For those who recognize that Trump cannot bomb his way to peace, it is time to revive and mobilize an antiwar movement. Katrina vanden Heuvel
It’s Not ‘McCarthyism’ to Demand Answers on Trump, Russia, and the Election Using the language of the anticommunist witch hunt for this moment is a mistake. Katha Pollitt
Letters From the May 8/15, 2017, Issue Solidarity with striking Harvard workers… Health care for all!… What is feminism?… Resisting the right wing… America’s perpetual wars… Our Readers
Back at the Carrier Plant, Workers Are Still Fighting on Their Own Trump’s tax break was not enough. Truly addressing the plight of the American working class means confronting the problems of global capitalism. Sarah Jaffe
On April 29, We March for the Future We’ll either save or doom the planet during the Trump administration. Don’t sit the Peoples Climate Mobilization out. Bill McKibben
‘Trump Is Just Tearing Off the Mask’: An Interview with Eric Foner The esteemed American historian talks about his new book, the politics of history, and the meaning of “a usable past.” Richard Kreitner
Obama From the Rearview Mirror The former president didn’t lose the argument with the right; he chose not to wage it. Robert L. Borosage
Inside the Birth of a Trump-Inspired Intellectual Magazine Reading through American Affairs, one gets the sense that avoiding policy questions is as much a strategy as a politics. Gideon Lewis-Kraus
What America’s 19th-Century Reformers and Radicals Missed A new book on the antebellum period captures the dangers of confusing self-improvement with institutional change. Brenda Wineapple