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October 9, 2017, Issue

Cover art by: Nurul Hana Anwar

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Editorial

The Financial Industry Is Its Own Best Enemy

Equifax’s blunder does more than any white paper to demonstrate the need for financial reform.

Mike Konczal

In the Manning Affair, Harvard Once Again Demonstrates Its ‘Liberal’ Values

This year, the university dumps Manning and Michelle Jones. In the 1960s, it honored Vietnam War architect—and admitted war criminal—Robert McNamara.

John Nichols

The Political Genius of Bernie’s ‘Medicare for All’ Bill

It blends a principled stand with a crafty incremental approach.

The Nation

This Modern World

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Tom Tomorrow

Column

No Wall?

Calvin Trillin

How to Lose Elections and Influence People

Labour may have lost the election, but it laid the foundation for a more progressive UK.

Gary Younge

We Need to Reckon With the Story ‘What Happened’ Tells

Hillary Clinton has a unique perspective on a world-historical event. Why shouldn’t she write a book about it?

Katha Pollitt

Letters

Letters From the October 9, 2017, Issue

No more piecemeal rights… When small is actually big…

Our Readers

Feature

How Trump Has Normalized the Unspeakable

He has legitimized bigotry and given the imprimatur of a major political party to criminal violence.

Sasha Abramsky

Can Black Lives Matter Win in the Age of Trump?

You could be forgiven for thinking the movement has gone quiet. But you’d be wrong.

Dani McClain

Books & the Arts

Blaming the People

Is democracy really the problem?

Jan-Werner Müller

The Real Crisis of European Multiculturalism

As a set of policies and as an ideal for a more pluralist society, it has failed not because of recent waves of immigration but because of how Europeans view their own culture and ...

Joan W. Scott

Pilgrim Bell

Kaveh Akbar

Frederick Wiseman’s World of Institutions

In his 42nd film, the documentarian examines the New York Public Library from both his Olympian and activist perspectives.

Stuart Klawans

The Messy Business of Free Speech

What’s missing from Floyd Abrams’s book The Soul of the First Amendment.

Gara LaMarche

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