Why Palestinians Need an International Protection Force

It will ensure that lives are placed above politics, and defend a besieged population nearing its 50th year under brutal occupation.

Diana Buttu and Nadia Hijab

John Cameron Mitchell’s Journey From Reaganite to Punk Queen

As Hedwig prepares a national tour, its creator talks with our editors about the show’s genesis, ’90s New York, and socialist project management.

Kai Wright and Lizzy Ratner

The 5 Books You Need to Read to Understand Gentrification

Here’s how it works.

DW Gibson

What’s Wrong With Obama’s Decision to Keep Troops in Afghanistan

They’re protecting the tenuous grip on power of an increasingly unpopular government.

The Editors

Why Today’s GOP Crackup Is the Final Unraveling of Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’

Tea Party rebels are exposing the deep rifts between country-club elites and social-issue hard-liners.

William Greider

One Possibility

Calvin Trillin

Letters From the November 9, 2015, Issue

Inside out and outside in… Gates’s gilded gospel… obstacle illusions…

Barry Schwabsky and Michael Sorkin and Our Readers