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Jeff Sessions’s Legacy Will Be Catastrophic for Asylum Seekers Jeff Sessions’s Legacy Will Be Catastrophic for Asylum Seekers

By exploiting his power over the immigration courts, the former attorney general made it his goal to inflict long-lasting damage on the asylum system.

Nov 8, 2018 / Chris Gelardi

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Letters From the December 3-10, 2018, Issue Letters From the December 3-10, 2018, Issue

This is what heroism looks like… Lost in translation… Humph!…

Nov 8, 2018 / Our Readers

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The White House and the Caravan The White House and the Caravan

Invasion by tired and poor but not white! We’ll stop them, Trump tells us, of that there’s no doubt. The troops have been sent. Will the Air Force be next? And nuclear weapons—have…

Nov 8, 2018 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Actual Distance

Actual Distance Actual Distance

ignore this…

Nov 8, 2018 / Peter Kuper

Saul Alinsky

Rereading Alinsky in Baltimore Rereading Alinsky in Baltimore

Why broad-based organizing still matters in an age of hashtag activism.

Nov 8, 2018 / Nick Bowlin

Chronicle of Deaths Foretold

Chronicle of Deaths Foretold Chronicle of Deaths Foretold

Trump’s hateful rhetoric encourages mass violence.

Nov 8, 2018 / Column / Eric Alterman

When Environmentalism Meets Xenophobia

When Environmentalism Meets Xenophobia When Environmentalism Meets Xenophobia

The conservative conservation movement’s dark history of racism and eugenics.

Nov 8, 2018 / Feature / Gaby Del Valle

The Fate of the Earth Depends on Women

The Fate of the Earth Depends on Women The Fate of the Earth Depends on Women

How a feminist foreign policy can save us from nuclear weapons.

Nov 8, 2018 / Feature / Beatrice Fihn

Beatrice Fihn

Together We Shall Save Our Planet: A Q&A With Beatrice Fihn Together We Shall Save Our Planet: A Q&A With Beatrice Fihn

The executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons explains the movement to ban the bomb.

Nov 8, 2018 / Q&A / Eric Schlosser

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Last Night, the Feminist Insurgency Hit the Polls—and Now It’s Headed to Congress Last Night, the Feminist Insurgency Hit the Polls—and Now It’s Headed to Congress

Women candidates won big—and a larger proportion of women voters went more Democratic than in any midterms before.

Nov 7, 2018 / Joan Walsh

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