Letters From the December 5-12, 2016, Issue Letters From the December 5-12, 2016, Issue
Radical soul… All hail Gary Younge… Foresight is 20/20… True fraudsters… Trump’s cheerleaders… Cold war, hot mess… And still women rise…
Nov 17, 2016 / Letters / Our Readers
28 Students Respond to Donald Trump’s Election 28 Students Respond to Donald Trump’s Election
“We can no longer afford to run from uncomfortable conversations.”
Nov 15, 2016 / StudentNation / Various Contributors
An Unabashed Misogynist Is in Charge of Our Country. Now What? An Unabashed Misogynist Is in Charge of Our Country. Now What?
We thought Trump’s sexism would be repudiated when America elected its first female president. Then he won.
Nov 15, 2016 / Feature / Katha Pollitt
Responsible Hedonists Responsible Hedonists
Emily Witt’s new book, Future Sex, captures the ways in which free love and countercultural experiments are no longer as liberating as they once seemed.
Nov 15, 2016 / Books & the Arts / J.C. Pan
What I Got Wrong About Hillary Clinton—and What Other Feminists Get Wrong About Her Now What I Got Wrong About Hillary Clinton—and What Other Feminists Get Wrong About Her Now
It’s simply untrue that Clinton didn’t put forward populist policies to help working women, even if it is true that she couldn’t escape her elite branding.
Nov 14, 2016 / Joan Walsh
10 Songs of Resistance 10 Songs of Resistance
Music can be both salve and inspiration easing collective pain and encouraging group resistance.
Nov 14, 2016 / Peter Rothberg
Inequality Among Women Is Crucial to Understanding Hillary’s Loss Inequality Among Women Is Crucial to Understanding Hillary’s Loss
Working-class women who voted for Trump tell us a lot about feminism’s relationship to class politics.
Nov 11, 2016 / Kathleen Geier
Letters From the November 28, 2016, Issue Letters From the November 28, 2016, Issue
Blowing in the idiot wind… Necessary trouble... All we are saying is... The true silent majority?…
Nov 10, 2016 / Letters / Our Readers
10 Things Progressives Need to Do Now 10 Things Progressives Need to Do Now
Starting November 9, we have our work cut out for us.
Nov 8, 2016 / Ai-jen Poo
5 Books You Need to Understand the Origins of Incarceration 5 Books You Need to Understand the Origins of Incarceration
Elizabeth Hinton’s celebrated new book, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime (Harvard, 2016) comes at an electric political moment. “I hope,” says Hinton, “that my research…
Nov 8, 2016 / 5 Books / Elizabeth Hinton