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October 10, 2016, Issue
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Feature
Fifty years later, four women who helped build the party look back on the less-attention-grabbing part of its history.
Most progressives will vote for Clinton to keep Trump out of the White House. That’s understandable, but even more important is building an alternative to pro-capitalist parties.
If you want to join a party that has no chance of effecting progressive change, the Greens are for you!
Even from exile, he continued to fight for his fellow Chileans.
Obama now has an opportunity to commemorate his victims by releasing the still-secret documents that hold the Chilean dictator accountable.
Orlando Letelier’s 1976 Nation essay is still essential reading.
In an exclusive post-primary sit-down, Senator Sanders speaks on Our Revolution, Donald Trump, and what he really thinks about Hillary Clinton.
Repression for the majorities and “economic freedom” for small privileged groups are two sides of the same coin.
Federal legislation is hastening the collapse of working class neighborhoods near water.
Editorial
The broken treaties of the past have now become a fundamental piece of the climate-justice battle.
The 1996 bill has sunk Americans deeper into poverty.
From our new offices crosstown, we can see not only the Hudson River but a good stretch of our own history.
Will the media let him get away with it?
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Column
It’s time to get on board, and get active.
From Khizr Khan to Fareed Zakaria, Muslims who speak out are smeared as un-American.
Books & the Arts
Poetry defeats poems. Beguiled by this decorous paradox, Ben Lerner’s The Hatred of Poetry evades the art’s difficulty and strangeness.
Given that the artist is such a spectral presence, how can his multifarious oeuvre be summed up in a single retrospective survey?
The shadow of ballad meter haunts Riley’s poems, which can never not be a sign of vitality.
Trying to remedy racism on its own intellectual terrain is like trying to extinguish a fire by striking another match. The fiction must be unbelieved, the fire stamped out.
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Letters
So much for this magazine… The panic boom… Redoing the House—and Senate… Teach your children well… A real puzzle…
