November 9, 2015 Issue

Cover art by: Victor Juhasz

Feature

What I Learned on a Luxury Cruise Through the Global-Warming Apocalypse

To see the Arctic death spiral firsthand, and to see the Arctic before it melted, I took a 17-day “adventure cruise” and learned an inconvenient truth: We can’t make it stop.
Roy Scranton
How a Gentrification Scam Threatens New York’s Community Gardens

Shady developers know one easy way to build luxury condos: Claim ownership of communal land.
DW Gibson

Editorial

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
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Books & the Arts

Self as Sovereign

Where do we get the notion of mind as separate from body?
Emily Wilson
Something Important Seeping Out of the World

Films about mourning and illness, and some worthy commercial fare, dominated this year’s New York Film Festival.
Stuart Klawans
The Noisy Silence of Picasso’s Guitars

His sculptures reveal the artist’s secret affinities with nascent anti-colonialist movements.
Barry Schwabsky
Humanism, Science, and the Radical Expansion of the Possible

Why we shouldn’t let neuroscience banish mystery from human life.
Marilynne Robinson
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