With Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, How Far Will the State’s Attacks on Women Go?

Another reader asks about weathering a public #MeToo event with PTSD.

Liza Featherstone

The 2018 Midterms Have Exposed a Democracy in Crisis

And we need radical reforms—now.

John Nichols

Comix Nation

Peter Kuper

Voters Must Catch On to Republicans’ Con on Health Care

The GOP’s duck-and-cover effort impedes a debate we need to have on providing universal coverage and increasing Social Security.

Katrina vanden Heuvel

If You Build a Left Movement, the Candidates Will Come

The “what” and “why” of politics are more urgent than the “who.”

Gary Younge

Elizabeth Warren Meets the Left’s Circular Firing Squad

The release of her DNA test might not have been the best idea, but it shouldn’t be disqualifying.

Katha Pollitt

The GOP and Voter Suppression

Calvin Trillin

In Naguib Mahfouz’s World

Through his massive corpus, the Egyptian novelist helped capture the startling pace and steep costs of a nation in pursuit of independence.

Ursula Lindsey

Congress’s History of Violence

A new history of the antebellum years reminds us that politics on Capitol Hill has never been civil.

Andrew Delbanco

How the Courts Perpetuate Broken-Windows Policing

Issa Kohler-Hausmann’s  Misdemeanorland  looks at how the court system has imposed a system of control that reinforces broken-windows police. 

Clio Chang

Ottessa Moshfegh’s Contemporary Gothic

My Year of Rest and Relaxation offers a fever dream of New York’s millennial elite before the 2008 crash.

Ismail Muhammad

Sergio de la Pava’s Society-Spanning Fiction

His novels capture a world riven apart by class and brought back together by art.

Frank Guan

What Happened to All the Good Jobs?

How a decades-long campaign undermined the stability and security of American workers.

Laura Marsh

Frederick Douglass’s 19th Century

A new biography gives an account of both Douglass’s political and personal life that will likely remain the standard for years to come.

Eric Foner

Letters From the November 19-26, 2018, Issue

Fact in fiction… AOC prepares for DC… Performing patriarchy…

Our Readers and Elias Rodriques

Puzzle No. 3481

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto