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Feature
The Kissinger Effect
Leftists often describe Henry Kissinger as a unique moral monster, but his intellectual framework pervades the entire national security state, from the neocons to Obama.
Greg Grandin
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How Pope Francis Is Reviving Radical Catholic Economics
Some Catholics have been quietly practicing them all along.
Nathan Schneider
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If Pope Francis Really Wanted to Fight Climate Change, He’d Be a Feminist
The world will never be healed of its ecological ills as long as women cannot control their fertility.
Katha Pollitt
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How Pope Francis Came to Embrace Not Just Climate Justice but Liberation Theology
And how that poses a radical challenge to both climate deniers and mainstream liberals.
Wen Stephenson
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The Danger of ‘Foreign Policy by Bumper Sticker’
The GOP’s paranoia and hubris promises yet another self-inflicted foreign policy disaster.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Editorial
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Hillary Clinton Isn’t the First Government Official to Send Secret Messages
From Hoover’s FBI to George W. Bush’s White House, officials have been hiding their communications for decades.
Athan G. Theoharis
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The New Mayor of Barcelona Tells Us Her Plans for a Radical City
Once an activist, can Ada Colau make her vision a reality?
Elia Gran
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Europe’s Refugee Crisis Was Made in America
Washington helped create the conditions with its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Editors
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Column
What Candidates Talk About When They Talk About Inequality
Americans are deeply worried about wealth and income gaps. But the issue evinces only confusion on the campaign trail.
Eric Alterman
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What Do You Get When You Remix the Confederacy for 2015?
Hint: It’s not just biscuits and magnolias.
Patricia J. Williams
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Books & the Arts
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Divided Affections
One writer’s fight against traditions that stifle women in Pakistan.
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad
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The Unfathomable Sadness
Miriam Toews writes about death and mental illness without sentimentality or sweeping platitudes.
Lauren Oyler
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The Flow of Life
Is Saul Bellow the central American novelist since Willa Cather and William Faulkner?
David Mikics
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Letters
Letters From the September 28–October 5, 2015, Issue
Ishmael Reed on life in the Major League; Scott Walker as Nixon’s protégé…
Our Readers and Jesse McCarthy
