October 14, 2019, Issue

Cover art by: Nathaniel Wilder (photo)

Feature

The Strange, Uncertain Fate of One of the World’s Most Valuable Salmon Habitats

Alaska’s Bristol Bay is a rare pristine salmon fishery. Can it survive a rapidly changing climate—and a massive, Trump-backed mine?
Julia O’Malley
HUD Is Planning a Bureaucratic Pogrom Against Public Housing Tenants

Under proposed new rules, if a single member of a family is undocumented, the entire family can be evicted.
Sasha Abramsky
The Unmet Promises of a New Orleans Charter School

In 2012 almost all of Sci Academy’s seniors were heading to college. Seven years later, only 18 percent had graduated.
Casey Parks

Editorial

The Climate Movement Breaks Through

Translating urgency into political action is the next task of the climate movement—and a more difficult one.
Zoë Carpenter
We Don’t Have to Choose Between Warren and Sanders Yet

Their truce during the 2020 campaigns is widening the left lane—that’s good for everyone.
D.D. Guttenplan
Do I Need Diversity in Every Issue of My Magazine?

And a male teenager asks how about the line between “normal thoughts of sex and objectification.”
Liza Featherstone
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Column

Trump Says Ukraine Call Was ‘Perfectly Fine and Routine’

Calvin Trillin
Stop Getting Married on Plantations

Monuments to slavery won’t lose their romantic allure until Americans understand the horrors of their own history.
Patricia J. Williams
Making Sense of Trump’s Rise

Three new books try to explain how we got such a massive jerk in the White House.
Eric Alterman

Books & the Arts

Is Our Food Culture Killing Us?

How we “choose” what to eat takes place within a contained food environment shaped by availability and advertising, traditions and trends—and, above all else, economics.
Susan Pedersen
Kamel Daoud and the Paradoxes of Liberation

In a new collection of his political writings, the Algerian novelist contemplates the unfinished business of his country’s struggle for independence.
Robyn Creswell
Bon Iver’s Great Escape

What began as a solo folk act has swelled into a collaborative and ecstatic mix of rock, pop, gospel, and more.
Marcus J. Moore
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