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Feature
An Economy for the Whole Family
The next recession is a chance to put public policy back in the service of life.
Sarah Leonard
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Make Antitrust Democratic Again!
The response to the next recession should put economic power back in the hands of the people.
Sanjukta Paul and Sandeep Vaheesan
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Recessions Are Racist (But They Don’t Have to Be)
How to stop the next economic slowdown from decimating black wealth a second time over.
Aaron Ross Coleman
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We Need a Green Bailout for the People
Here’s what the government should demand when the economy tumbles and Wall Street comes begging.
Kate Aronoff
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How to Not Waste the Next Economic Crisis
A downturn will (eventually) come—and with it, a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the US economy.
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
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‘The Inheritance’ Takes E.M. Forster Out of the Closet
Bringing Howards End into today’s gay Manhattan, playwright Matthew Lopez shows that “Only Connect” is still a radical message.
Darryl Pinckney
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Joe Biden’s Friends and Backers Come Out on Top—at the Expense of the Middle Class
That’s the “Delaware Way.”
Joseph N. DiStefano
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Editorial
Democrats Have Better Choices Than Biden
His long record of poor judgment and cozying up to bankers makes him the wrong candidate to take on Donald Trump.
The Nation
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Tony Kushner on Making Serious Political Theatre in 2019
In a conversation with The Nation, Kushner discusses the first major revival of A Bright Room Called Day, his Reagan-era political drama set in Weimar Germany.
Alisa Solomon
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Column
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Trump Knows the Power of the Supreme Court—Why Don’t Democrats?
The Supreme Court could be a galvanizing issue for Democrats, but the presidential contenders have largely ignored it.
Elie Mystal
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Why Facebook Is Soliciting Lies
From Mark Zuckerberg’s standpoint, it’s both profitable and good politics to invite the Trumpian right to be deceitful.
Eric Alterman
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Books & the Arts
David Maraniss’s Tale of Hope and Misfortune in Postwar America
In A Good American Family, the journalist and editor examines his father and mother’s youthful idealism and the bitter years of McCarthyism that followed.
Andrew J. Bacevich
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Who Gets to Be Color-Blind?
Thomas Chatterton Williams argues in his new book that race is something individuals can unlearn. But no matter how socially constructed racial identity may be, our lived experience of it is anything but fictitious.
Ismail Muhammad
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Did the New Deal Need FDR?
His political evolution points to a different locus of power than the one liberals tend to invoke when discussing the era’s history.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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