October 26, 2015 Issue

Features

Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Climate Justice Movement

The new American radicals know that it’s time to fight like there’s nothing left to lose but our humanity.

Wen Stephenson
These People Are the Secret to Bernie Sanders’s Success

Sanders leads Hillary Clinton by a comfortable margin in New Hampshire, and he has almost caught her in nationwide fundraising. How did he do it?

D.D. Guttenplan
I Want My Progressive TV! What If MSNBC Dumps the Left?

The cable answer to Fox News is slowly shrinking from the fight. Can digital outlets fill the void?

Leslie Savan

Editorials

The Culture That Capitalism Created

An interview with Boots Riley.

Laura Flanders
Why We Can’t Have Nice Things—Like Gun Control

Gun extremists in Congress, heavily backed by weapons manufacturers and the NRA, wield wildly disproportionate influence.

the Editors
Comix Nation

Jen Sorensen
Bureau of Sex Slavery

For Yanar and my sisters in Iraq and Syria.

Eve Ensler
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Books and the Arts

How Patti Smith, Punk Chanteuse, Became the Irresistible Siren of Middle Age

Her latest memoir, M Train, feels guided simultaneously by determination and serendipity.

James Longenbach
Jonathan Franzen Withdraws

Why are the agonized liberals in Purity so skeptical of political conviction?

Jon Baskin
Who Talks Like That?

Lawrence Joseph
The Good, the Bad, and the Veteran

Problem-solving will only get liars and filmmakers so far.

Stuart Klawans
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