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

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

Letters From the October 14, 2019, Issue

Unrecognized labor… Taking offense… Hope amid troubles…

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