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Letters From the May 8/15, 2017, Issue Letters From the May 8/15, 2017, Issue

Solidarity with striking Harvard workers… Health care for all!… What is feminism?… Resisting the right wing… America’s perpetual wars…

Apr 20, 2017 / Our Readers

Jeff Sessions at a news conference

The Problem With How Jeff Sessions Talks About Crime The Problem With How Jeff Sessions Talks About Crime

He’s making unfounded claims about the relationship between crime rates and scrutiny of law enforcement.

Apr 20, 2017 / Collier Meyerson

Carrier workers

Back at the Carrier Plant, Workers Are Still Fighting on Their Own Back at the Carrier Plant, Workers Are Still Fighting on Their Own

Trump’s tax break was not enough. Truly addressing the plight of the American working class means confronting the problems of global capitalism.

Apr 20, 2017 / Feature / Sarah Jaffe

Bill O'Reilly

Bye-Bye, Bill O’Reilly Bye-Bye, Bill O’Reilly

On and off screen, Bill O’Reilly helped create the sexist, racist, right-wing culture that was the Fox News brand.

Apr 19, 2017 / Joan Walsh

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos

What Betsy DeVos’s Emphasis on ‘Choice’ Means for School Segregation What Betsy DeVos’s Emphasis on ‘Choice’ Means for School Segregation

The education secretary’s policies stand to make divisions in our schools and neighborhoods worse, not better.

Apr 19, 2017 / StudentNation / Michelle Chen

People protest after Russian hacking allegations.

Why the New Cold War Is More Dangerous Than the Preceding One Why the New Cold War Is More Dangerous Than the Preceding One

Questionable but orthodox Cold War narratives make actual war with Russia more likely than during its 40-year predecessor.

Apr 19, 2017 / Stephen F. Cohen

Inside the Birth of a Trump-Inspired Intellectual Magazine

Inside the Birth of a Trump-Inspired Intellectual Magazine Inside the Birth of a Trump-Inspired Intellectual Magazine

Reading through American Affairs, one gets the sense that avoiding policy questions is as much a strategy as a politics.

Apr 19, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Gideon Lewis-Kraus

At Resistance School, Trump-Era Activists Learn To Get Down to the Roots of Things

At Resistance School, Trump-Era Activists Learn To Get Down to the Roots of Things At Resistance School, Trump-Era Activists Learn To Get Down to the Roots of Things

Only by learning how to communicate our values can we plausibly enact them in the world.

Apr 18, 2017 / Sophia Sadinsky

The New Trump Trope

The New Trump Trope The New Trump Trope

In media coverage after the Syrian air strike, the conventional wisdom shifted to believing that the president’s relations with Russia stink.

Apr 18, 2017 / Leslie Savan

These New Yorkers Are Covering Advertisements with Art

These New Yorkers Are Covering Advertisements with Art These New Yorkers Are Covering Advertisements with Art

For the collective Art in Ad Places, advertising poisons the potential splendor of public space.

Apr 18, 2017 / Photo Essay / Carlos Ballesteros

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