September 23, 2019, Issue

Cover art by: GWHS Alumni Association / Tammy Aramian

Feature

Northern Ireland’s Schools Still Aren’t Integrated

But the province’s parents and teachers aren’t waiting for politicians to desegregate education. They’re doing it themselves.
Adam McGibbon
In an Age of Policy Boldness, Think Tanks Have Become Timid

The disconnect between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and the think tank world could pose a problem if one of them gets elected president.
Jeet Heer
We’re Getting These Murals All Wrong

The Arnautoff murals in San Francisco have been denounced as demeaning and triggering, and defended as an exposé of America’s racist past. Both sides miss the point.
Robin D.G. Kelley

Editorial

When Are Gratuities Gratuitous?

Another reader asks how to deal with her racist classmates in a largely white high school.
Liza Featherstone
Comix Nation

Jen Sorensen
Strike!

Unbreakable human solidarity is what we need, and mass strikes are the strategy to get it.
Jane McAlevey
The Pentagon’s New Missile Drive Is Bringing Armageddon Closer

Washington is withdrawing from the INF treaty not because of Russian violations but because the Pentagon wants to deploy a dangerous new class of its own nukes.
Michael T. Klare
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Books & the Arts

Everyone Is Acting as if We’re Not Temporary, and I Am Falling Apart in the Privacy of My Own Home

Kelli Russell Agodon
Ileana Cabra’s Music for a Revolution

Her new album channels the spirit of Puerto Rico’s activists.
Julyssa Lopez
What Inspired ‘Lolita’?

Sarah Weinman’s new book traces the true crime that influenced Nabokov and the writing of his novel.
Jennifer Wilson
Wendell Berry’s Lifelong Dissent

At the core of both his writing and activism is the insight that we can’t imagine a harmonious future without confronting the destruction in our past.
Jedediah Britton-Purdy
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