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November 2, 2015 Issue

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Editorial

Comix Nation

Matt Bors

We Should Never Pay Down Our $17 Trillion Debt—Just Ask the IMF

Our money is better spent elsewhere, for a few simple reasons.

Mike Konczal

How Bernie Changed the Democratic Debate

The other candidates followed his lead, and leaned left.

The Editors

This Is How Immigration Reform Happened 50 Years Ago. It Can Happen Again.

Recalling the civil-rights history of the Hart-Celler Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 can help us think about how to change immigration policy today.

Mae Ngai

Column

Workers in a Foxconn factory in Guangdong province, China.

2 Things You Won’t Learn From the New Steve Jobs Film

Apple is relentless toward its overseas labor force and remarkably innovative in its approach to tax avoidance.

Eric Alterman

How Could Tamir Rice’s Death Be ‘Reasonable’?

Imaginative legal reasoning deals a real blow.

Patricia J. Williams

The Freedom Caucus

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Letters From the November 2, 2015, Issue

Judging the Court… Hitchens’s exceptionalism… Don’t burn Bernie!… Sinatra always had a cold…

Our Readers and Greg Grandin

Feature

East End Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, is one of several historic black cemeteries that have been overtaken by weeds and trash.

Black Deaths Matter

Historic black cemeteries have devolved into trash dumps and overgrown forests, while tidy Confederate memorials still draw public funding.

Seth Freed Wessler

The wreckage: A street in Breezy Point, a section of the Rockaways, two weeks after Sandy.

3 Years After Hurricane Sandy, Is New York Prepared for the Next Great Storm?

New York is spending $20 billion to protect its shores from sea-level rise—but that may not be enough.

Jarrett Murphy

The US Massacre in Kunduz Exposes the Bankruptcy of Obama’s National-Security Policy

Air power inflicts horrific human-rights violations and has been thoroughly discredited as a means of fighting insurgencies.

Bob Dreyfuss

Books & the Arts

Vagrancy in the Park

The essence of Wallace Stevens: Roses, roses. Fable and dream. The pilgrim sun.

Susan Howe

Rot as Rapture, Filth as Rebellion

In Ottessa Moshfegh’s first full-length novel, the allure of dissolution is that it demands nothing.

Katie Ryder

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Comix Nation

We Should Never Pay Down Our $17 Trillion Debt—Just Ask the IMF

How Bernie Changed the Democratic Debate

This Is How Immigration Reform Happened 50 Years Ago. It Can Happen Again.

Column

2 Things You Won’t Learn From the New Steve Jobs Film

How Could Tamir Rice’s Death Be ‘Reasonable’?

The Freedom Caucus

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Letters From the November 2, 2015, Issue

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Black Deaths Matter

3 Years After Hurricane Sandy, Is New York Prepared for the Next Great Storm?

The US Massacre in Kunduz Exposes the Bankruptcy of Obama’s National-Security Policy

Books & the Arts

Vagrancy in the Park

Rot as Rapture, Filth as Rebellion

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