Print Magazine October 21, 2019, Issue Cover art by: Jason Seiler Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue Editorial How to Be a Radical Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, explains why the presidency is like the plantation. John Nichols Labour’s Big Gamble on Brexit By dodging a decision on the issue, the party has ceded political ground to the right while demoralizing some of its own ranks. Rachel Shabi Comix Nation ignore this… Read More Peter Kuper The Left Needs to Seize Impeachment From Centrist Elites Impeachment should be about how an oligarch debauched democracy, not about a president clashing with the national security establishment. Jeet Heer Column A Sexual Assault Memoir Women Deserve Chanel Miller’s brilliant account of her assault by Stanford swimmer Brock Turner questions the way we treat sexual assault—and sex itself. Katha Pollitt Trump’s Defense Calvin Trillin Letters Letters From the October 21, 2019, Issue Look again… Blame Merle!… The last dance?… Our Readers Feature The ‘Public Option’ on Health Care Is a Poison Pill Some Democratic candidates are pushing it as a free-choice version of Medicare for All. That’s good rhetoric but bad policy. David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler A Tool to Improve Baseball Performance Has Become a Weapon Against the Players How baseball’s numbers game threatens to strangle the sport. Kelly Candaele and Peter Dreier Why Is Cory Booker Still Running For President? Down in the polls, ignored by the media, Booker refuses to quit. Gene Seymour Books & the Arts Tenderness Derrick Austin The Catholic Church at a Crossroads In their new books, Ross Douthat and James Chappel present two radically different versions of Catholicism’s past and future. Jan-Werner Müller The Workers That Built America A new book puts the black working class at the center of American history. William P. Jones The Business of Being Taylor Swift Her latest album, Lover, has been heralded as a return to form. It also presents an opportunity to understand the pop star’s many contradictions. Olivia Horn Recent Issues See All "swipe left below to view more recent issues"Swipe → October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 June 2024 May 2024 See All x
How to Be a Radical Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, explains why the presidency is like the plantation. John Nichols
Labour’s Big Gamble on Brexit By dodging a decision on the issue, the party has ceded political ground to the right while demoralizing some of its own ranks. Rachel Shabi
The Left Needs to Seize Impeachment From Centrist Elites Impeachment should be about how an oligarch debauched democracy, not about a president clashing with the national security establishment. Jeet Heer
A Sexual Assault Memoir Women Deserve Chanel Miller’s brilliant account of her assault by Stanford swimmer Brock Turner questions the way we treat sexual assault—and sex itself. Katha Pollitt
The ‘Public Option’ on Health Care Is a Poison Pill Some Democratic candidates are pushing it as a free-choice version of Medicare for All. That’s good rhetoric but bad policy. David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler
A Tool to Improve Baseball Performance Has Become a Weapon Against the Players How baseball’s numbers game threatens to strangle the sport. Kelly Candaele and Peter Dreier
Why Is Cory Booker Still Running For President? Down in the polls, ignored by the media, Booker refuses to quit. Gene Seymour
The Catholic Church at a Crossroads In their new books, Ross Douthat and James Chappel present two radically different versions of Catholicism’s past and future. Jan-Werner Müller
The Workers That Built America A new book puts the black working class at the center of American history. William P. Jones
The Business of Being Taylor Swift Her latest album, Lover, has been heralded as a return to form. It also presents an opportunity to understand the pop star’s many contradictions. Olivia Horn