October 17, 2016, Issue

Cover art by: Honoré Daumier.

Feature

What if the US Really Did Deport 11 Million People?

A case study of New York’s Hudson Valley, where immigrants—with and without documents—have brought once-dead towns back to life.
DW Gibson
What Would Alexis de Tocqueville Have Made of the 2016 US Presidential Election?

Feverish thoughts from a moment of “extreme peril.”
Arthur Goldhammer
If Sweden and Denmark Are So Progressive, Why Did They Close Their Doors to Refugees?

As the migration crisis drags on, even the most tolerant countries in Europe are embracing anti-immigrant politics.
Sasha Abramsky

Editorial

Wells Fargo Crooks Stole From Customers, Reaped Obscene Rewards—and Stuck Us With the Bill

Until we start jailing banksters, they’ll keep doing it.
Robert L. Borosage
The Most Peaceful Protest

When nonviolence isn’t enough.
Matt Bors
At the First Debate, Clinton Faced Asymmetric Warfare—and Won

“Donald, I know you live in your own reality,” she said calmly. And it gradually became clear she was right.
Joan Walsh
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Books & the Arts

Everything Is Interesting

Nicholson Baker goes back to school.
Evan Kindley
Deep Stories: Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Journey into Trump Country

For many of Louisiana Tea Partiers, “Democrat” wasn’t a bad word when they were growing up but it is now. The well-known sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild went to the heart of Trump Country to find out why.
John B. Judis
Fortress America

How 20th-century liberals helped create our age of mass incarceration.
James Forman Jr.
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