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October 19, 2015 Issue
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October 19, 2015 Issue
Cover art by: Mohammed Abdullah / Reuters
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Features
Why do super-rich activists mock their critics instead of listening to them?
A debate sparked by the free-range parenting movement has drawn attention to the threats and intrusions poor, minority families have long endured.
In a co-epidemic with HIV, it’s raging across much of the world, killing an estimated 2.6 million people in 2013.
Editorials
If history is any guide—no.
It won’t be easy, but there are concrete measures we can take right now to relieve the agony.
The pope reminds Congress of an American moral tradition that believes “in an economy based on human needs rather than on the profit motive.”
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Columns
In the world according to Fox News, the debate champion is the candidate whose lies are considered to be the most effective. But Roger Ailes always wins.
Books and the Arts
In John Keene’s ambitious new volume of stories, resistance is required because exile isn’t an option.
An unjustly-neglected Libyan novelist captured the twisted logic of colonialism, past and present.
It shouldn’t be surprising that the museum’s new building looks most like… a building.
From the creators of The Matrix , the new Netflix show Sense8 inadvertently tells the saddest story in the world.
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Letters
Coming out for choice… Hillary’s unrequited love… up for debate… nationalize The Nation …
