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February 15, 2016 Issue

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Editorial

How the GOP Candidates Are Blocking the Vote

Ted Cruz is leading the charge, but all of them support tough new voting restrictions.

Ari Berman

Bernie’s Wall Street Plan Is Actually Not Enough

Here are three ways he can make his plan a real threat to the finance industry.

Mike Konczal

Note to Hillary: Clintonomics Was a Disaster for Most Americans

Under Bill Clinton, Wall Street created a ruinous bubble, while workers lost wages and power.

Robert Pollin

The Poisoning of Flint

Decades of catastrophic austerity policies and ruinous government fealty to corporate interests are jeopardizing the people of Michigan—and the rest of the country.

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Column

Late-Night Comics Welcome Back Sarah Palin

Calvin Trillin

The Koch Brothers Have Radically Changed American Politics

A new book exposes the hidden campaign to mainstream their libertarian agenda.

Eric Alterman

Letters

Letters From the February 15, 2016, Issue

The once and future UN… no contradiction here… painful question…

Our Readers

Feature

Citizens of Oslo celebrate Syttende Mai (May Seventeenth), Norway's national day commemorating the adoption of its Constitution.

After I Lived in Norway, America Felt Backward. Here’s Why.

A crash course in social democracy.

Ann Jones

Federal Correctional Institution, Big Spring, a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Texas.

‘This Man Will Almost Certainly Die’

Dozens of men have died in disturbing circumstances in privatized, immigrant-only prisons. The Bureau of Prisons itself says there’s a problem. And yet the privatization scheme con...

Seth Freed Wessler

Books & the Arts

J.M. Coetzee’s Facts of Life

For the South African author, the selves we write and read may be truer than any other.

Becca Rothfeld

An anonymous painting from the 15th century of St. William of Norwich (detail).

The Origins of Blood Libel

E.M. Rose reconsiders where the anti-Semitic slur came from, and how it stuck around.

Madeleine Schwartz

From The Arab of the Future, volume 1, by Riad Sattouf.

The Future of the Arab

Riad Sattouf’s biting graphic memoir ignores the big picture of politics in the Middle East and focuses instead on daily life and the imposition of authority through violence.

Ursula Lindsey