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Feature
What Would Real Commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement Look Like?
The United States will be a nonentity at this fall’s UN climate summit. But the 2020 election is a chance to change the game.
Zoë Carpenter
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In Senegal, Climate Change Is Robbing Thousands of Their Homes
No region has done less to contribute to the climate crisis than Africa—or stands to lose more.
Daniel Judt
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Exclusive: Edward Snowden’s First Adventures in Cyberspace
An excerpt from the whistleblower’s new memoir.
Edward Snowden
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Editorial
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The Student Debt Problem Is a Family Crisis
More and more parents are ending up trapped between what they feel is a moral obligation toward higher education and their financial reality.
Mike Konczal
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Bolton’s Gone. Is the Trumpian World Order About to Begin?
Whether a Trump-dictated foreign policy is a good thing is anyone’s guess.
Michael T. Klare
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Naomi Klein Knows a Green New Deal Is Our Only Hope Against Climate Catastrophe
In her new book, Klein argues that our current crisis cannot be separated from a long history and brutal present of human exploitation.
Lynne Feeley
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Column
Margaret Atwood Shouldn’t Exonerate Aunt Lydia
The Testaments, Atwood’s sequel to Handmaid’s Tale, gives undue credit to Gilead’s misogynistic female enabler.
Katha Pollitt
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Books & the Arts
Martin Hägglund’s Case for Socialism
If we knew there were no afterlife, would we make this life better?
Peter E. Gordon
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What Misogyny Does
In her new book, philosopher Kate Manne insists that what’s important is not what men intended but how women experience misogyny.
Clio Chang
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The Vexed Meaning of Equality in Gilded Age America
The agrarian, feminist, and labor movements of the 19th century elevated equality to a cardinal principle, but all three fell short when it came to transcending the divide of race.
Eric Foner
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