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Comix Nation

Matt Bors

The GOP Has a Much Bigger Problem Than the Debates

It's not just the leading candidates who are extremists.

Joan Walsh

Asking for a Friend: Is It Me or Is It Capitalism?

In the first installment of our new advice column, Liza answers readers’ questions about depression and the ethics of cleaning apps.

Liza Featherstone

A Short History of Cops Terrorizing Students

The assault at Spring Valley runs deeper than one bad cop—it’s the latest product of the school-to-prison pipeline.

Alex S. Vitale

Column

Germaine Greer speaks at the Melbourne Writers Festival.

Feminism Needs More Thinkers Who Aren’t Right 100 Percent of the Time

Feminists like Germaine Greer should be valued for what they get right, rather than banned for what they get wrong.

Katha Pollitt

Rubio Cuts Down His Mentor

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Letters From the November 23/30 Issue

Bombs without borders… burying inequality… objectively unreasonable… a real bad apple… et tu, MSNBC?…

Our Readers

Feature

Hillary Clinton rallies with union organizers outside a Trump hotel on October 12, 2015. Credit: John Locher / AP

This Time in Nevada, Hillary’s All In

In 2008, Clinton took the state and its powerful unions for granted. She’s not making that mistake again.

D.D. Guttenplan

FDR’s “good friend”: Socialist Party presidential candidate Norman Thomas in Milwaukee, September 1932

Why Grassroots Democrats Don’t Have a Problem With Democratic Socialism

They know that Bernie Sanders is advocating an old American tradition—in fact, Democrats now favor socialism over capitalism by 12 percentage points.

John Nichols

The Paris Climate Conference: Last Chance for Planet Earth?

The stakes are higher than they’ve ever been—but the movement may be on the verge of a breakthrough in public consciousness.

Mark Hertsgaard

Books & the Arts

A demonstrator offers a flower to military police at a Vietnam War demonstration at the Pentagon in 1967.

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Comix Nation

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A Short History of Cops Terrorizing Students

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Feminism Needs More Thinkers Who Aren’t Right 100 Percent of the Time

Rubio Cuts Down His Mentor

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This Time in Nevada, Hillary’s All In

Why Grassroots Democrats Don’t Have a Problem With Democratic Socialism

The Paris Climate Conference: Last Chance for Planet Earth?

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Politics, Principle, and Risk

She’s Leaving Home

Not the Word, but the Thing Itself

The Beauty and the Costs of Extreme Altruism

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