Print Magazine October 7, 2019, Issue Cover art by: Philip Burke Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue Editorial Edward Snowden Speaks The NSA whistleblower’s new memoir is essential reading. D.D. Guttenplan Up in Smoke ignore this… Read More Matt Bors 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 23 Reasons to Climate Strike Today Take to the streets. Bill McKibben 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 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 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 New Air Force Anthem Calvin Trillin Letters Letters From the October 7, 2019, Issue Sold out, again… Blame the media?… Our Readers 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 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 Exclusive: Edward Snowden’s First Adventures in Cyberspace An excerpt from the whistleblower’s new memoir. Edward Snowden 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 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 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... Eric Foner 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Exclusive: Edward Snowden’s First Adventures in Cyberspace An excerpt from the whistleblower’s new memoir. Edward Snowden
Martin Hägglund’s Case for Socialism If we knew there were no afterlife, would we make this life better? Peter E. Gordon
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
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... Eric Foner