November 2, 2015 Issue

Feature

Black Deaths Matter

Historic black cemeteries have devolved into trash dumps and overgrown forests, while tidy Confederate memorials still draw public funding.
Seth Freed Wessler
3 Years After Hurricane Sandy, Is New York Prepared for the Next Great Storm?

New York is spending $20 billion to protect its shores from sea-level rise—but that may not be enough.
Jarrett Murphy
The US Massacre in Kunduz Exposes the Bankruptcy of Obama’s National-Security Policy

Air power inflicts horrific human-rights violations and has been thoroughly discredited as a means of fighting insurgencies.
Bob Dreyfuss

Editorial

Comix Nation

Matt Bors
We Should Never Pay Down Our $17 Trillion Debt—Just Ask the IMF

Our money is better spent elsewhere, for a few simple reasons.
Mike Konczal
How Bernie Changed the Democratic Debate

The other candidates followed his lead, and leaned left.
The Editors
This Is How Immigration Reform Happened 50 Years Ago. It Can Happen Again.

Recalling the civil-rights history of the Hart-Celler Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 can help us think about how to change immigration policy today.
Mae Ngai
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Column

2 Things You Won’t Learn From the New Steve Jobs Film

Apple is relentless toward its overseas labor force and remarkably innovative in its approach to tax avoidance.
Eric Alterman
How Could Tamir Rice’s Death Be ‘Reasonable’?

Imaginative legal reasoning deals a real blow.
Patricia J. Williams
The Freedom Caucus

Calvin Trillin

Books & the Arts

Vagrancy in the Park

The essence of Wallace Stevens: Roses, roses. Fable and dream. The pilgrim sun.
Susan Howe
Rot as Rapture, Filth as Rebellion

In Ottessa Moshfegh’s first full-length novel, the allure of dissolution is that it demands nothing.
Katie Ryder
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