May 9-16, 2016 Issue

Cover art by: Sandra Bland / Facebook.

Feature

What Happened to Sandra Bland?

To answer that question, you must begin way before she died in a Texas jail.
Debbie Nathan
The Black Lives Matter Movement Is Most Visible on Twitter. Its True Home Is Elsewhere.

For the movement to survive, it needs to focus on work that doesn’t lend itself to 140 characters.
Dani McClain
A Radical Alliance of Black and Green Could Save the World

But first the two movements will have to rediscover their shared roots in a fundamental critique of an economy and a society that value things more than lives.
James Gustave Speth and J. Phillip Thompson III

Editorial

Five Books: These Histories of Black Struggle Should Inform Us in 2016

Essential reading.
Dani McClain
Women Won’t Have Equality Until Dads Stay Home

Here’s how it works.
Bryce Covert
Bernie Sanders Is Not Going to Be President of the United States—He Should Keep Running Anyway

Millions of Americans still need a champion, and the Democratic Party needs his supporters.
D.D. Guttenplan
Time for a US Apology to El Salvador

Obama recently expressed regret for US support of Argentina’s “dirty war.” It’s time Washington did the same regarding our active backing of right-wing butchery in El Salvador.
Raymond Bonner
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Column

The Art of the Whine

Calvin Trillin
North Carolina’s Anti-LGBT Law Is Not the Way to Keep Women Safe

The threats to women’s safety are posed by men, not trans women. So why should trans women suffer for those sins?
Katha Pollitt
Donald Trump’s Virtual Reality

What happens when we create our own truths online?
Patricia J. Williams

Books & the Arts

Hume’s Call to Action

For philosophy to be effective, it has to understand the world in which it operates. David Hume brought history and politics to the realm of ideas.
Richard Bourke
How to Succeed on Broadway!

Why is Arthur Miller one of the most lauded American playwrights—and one of the most vilified?
Alisa Solomon
Can an Unfinished Piece of Art Also Be Complete?

An exhibit at the Met Breuer explores the differences between completing and finishing an artwork.
Barry Schwabsky
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