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October 29, 2018, Issue

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Editorial

Planet Earth Is Doomed. How Do I Go On?

Another reader asks how to respond to an alt-right wedding invitation.

Liza Featherstone

Comix Nation

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Peter Kuper

A Woman Can Never Be Likable Enough

From an early age, we’re taught to please men. What if we got angry instead?

Katha Pollitt

The Mystery Deepens on Those ‘Immaculate Concussion’ Illnesses in Cuba

One thing is certain—the downsized US embassy has made it harder for diplomats to cover new developments there.

Peter Kornbluh

Column

Kavanaugh’s Defenders in Congress Don’t Care About Process

The hearings reveal disparities in who gets to speak out—and who must remain silent.

Patricia J. Williams

Kavanaugh’s Testimony

Calvin Trillin

Durbin, Whitehouse, Klobuchar at Kavanaugh hearing

Brett Kavanaugh Is a Liar—So Why Couldn’t Democrats Call Him One?

News reports are not helping by wrongly presenting the hearing as a “he said/she said” affair.

Eric Alterman

Letters

Letters From the October 29, 2018, Issue

The Gore-y truth…

Our Readers and Jason Mark

Feature

Richard Ojeda’s Politics of Regret

Can a reformed Trump voter win over West Virginia?

Rowan Moore Gerety

In Search of the Lost Republic

Americans once believed that their government belonged to them. Can we again?

D.D. Guttenplan

AOC Responds to Her Critics

After a high-profile national tour, Ocasio-Cortez defends her perceived missteps—and calls cynicism “the greatest enemy of the progressive left.”

Raina Lipsitz

Beto O’Rourke Fights the Clampdown in Texas

His campaign represents a real-time experiment for a party that is still struggling to define itself in the Trump era.

John Nichols

Books & the Arts

The German Century

A new book documents the ordinary lives of Germans caught in a country and century marked by regime change, economic catastrophe, and war.

Richard J. Evans

Who Owns Kafka?

The complicated legacy of the writer’s estate.

Evan Kindley

Ling Ma’s Disaster Fiction

Part sci-fi thriller, part genre-fiction, Severance follows a millennial New Yorker’s struggle to survive.

Larissa Pham

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Kavanaugh’s Defenders in Congress Don’t Care About Process

Kavanaugh’s Testimony

Brett Kavanaugh Is a Liar—So Why Couldn’t Democrats Call Him One?

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Beto O’Rourke Fights the Clampdown in Texas

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