December 19-26, 2016, Issue

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Feature

Washington’s New African-American Museum Shows How Black History Shaped the American Experience

The most recent and cutting-edge scholarship informs the exhibits.
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
How the Active Many Can Overcome the Ruthless Few

Nonviolent direct action was the 20th century’s greatest invention—and it is the key to saving the earth in the 21st century.
Bill McKibben
Donald Trump’s Looming Mass Criminalization

The only way to quickly deport 3 million immigrants is to first make them into criminals—and he’ll have the tools to do so on day one.
Seth Freed Wessler

Editorial

We Need to Kill the Electoral College

It’s a foul remnant of 18th-century oligarchs and slaveholders, designed to thwart the will of the people.
John Nichols
Margaret Sullivan on How Trump Trounced the Media

An interview.
John Nichols
How to Understand the Struggle for Black Freedom After Emancipation

Five important books tell the tale.
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
After Fidel Castro, What Comes Next?

Castro’s death comes at a particularly delicate stage in the ongoing effort to normalize Cuba-US relations.
Peter Kornbluh
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Rae Armantrout
Bruce Springsteen’s Redemption Song

The musician delivers a flawed but exquisitely moving and detailed new memoir.
David Hajdu
Would Politics Be Better Off Without Anger?

Martha Nussbaum’s new book about the dangers of anger tells us more about the limits of the liberal mindset than the actual world of politics.
Amia Srinivasan
Wideman’s Ghosts

A profound sense of hope and despair haunts John Edgar Wideman’s new work of nonfiction.
Jesse McCarthy
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