Print Magazine March 21, 2016 Issue Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue Editorial Are the Major World Powers Blundering Toward War? The US, Russia, China, and others are playing a dangerous game of military provocation. That’s exactly how World War I started a century ago. Michael T. Klare Asking For A Friend: How Do I Express My New Gender Presentation Without Buying Into Consumerism? And another person asks—can I donate welfare dollars to Bernie? Liza Featherstone The Democratic Primary Is Not Over Yet Less than 900,000 Democrats in just four states have cast a ballot. More democracy—it’s a good thing! The Editors Column Christie as Trump’s Veep? Calvin Trillin Why We Need Women in Power Women legislators tend to promote women’s issues. How do Bernie supporters think we should get gender parity in government? Katha Pollitt Feature Diary of (Not) Excavating a Mass Grave in El Salvador The country’s lone forensic investigator faces a system designed to keep the bodies buried. Óscar Martínez The Journalist Who Plunged Into Central America’s Deadliest Gang Wars Óscar Martínez reports, with great beauty, on his region’s deepest traumas. The Editors These Journalists Dedicated Their Lives to Telling Other People’s Stories. What Happens When No One Wants to Print Their Words Anymore? As newsrooms disappear, veteran reporters are being forced from the profession. That’s bad for journalism—and democracy. Dale Maharidge Standardized Tests Are a New Glass Ceiling Women do better in class and worse on tests—and there are consequences. Andrew Hacker Books & the Arts Tina Fey Goes for Drama Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is a movie with neither highs nor lows. Stuart Klawans Ms. Grief Out of two new books, Constance Fenimore Woolson emerges as a figure of some dimension in her own right. Vivian Gornick Cairo: A Museum of Ghosts A visit to the Egyptian capital while government crackdowns are forcing many of its writers and artists to find a way out. Ursula Lindsey Recent Issues See All "swipe left below to view more recent issues"Swipe → November 2024 October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 June 2024 See All x
Are the Major World Powers Blundering Toward War? The US, Russia, China, and others are playing a dangerous game of military provocation. That’s exactly how World War I started a century ago. Michael T. Klare
Asking For A Friend: How Do I Express My New Gender Presentation Without Buying Into Consumerism? And another person asks—can I donate welfare dollars to Bernie? Liza Featherstone
The Democratic Primary Is Not Over Yet Less than 900,000 Democrats in just four states have cast a ballot. More democracy—it’s a good thing! The Editors
Why We Need Women in Power Women legislators tend to promote women’s issues. How do Bernie supporters think we should get gender parity in government? Katha Pollitt
Diary of (Not) Excavating a Mass Grave in El Salvador The country’s lone forensic investigator faces a system designed to keep the bodies buried. Óscar Martínez
The Journalist Who Plunged Into Central America’s Deadliest Gang Wars Óscar Martínez reports, with great beauty, on his region’s deepest traumas. The Editors
These Journalists Dedicated Their Lives to Telling Other People’s Stories. What Happens When No One Wants to Print Their Words Anymore? As newsrooms disappear, veteran reporters are being forced from the profession. That’s bad for journalism—and democracy. Dale Maharidge
Standardized Tests Are a New Glass Ceiling Women do better in class and worse on tests—and there are consequences. Andrew Hacker
Ms. Grief Out of two new books, Constance Fenimore Woolson emerges as a figure of some dimension in her own right. Vivian Gornick
Cairo: A Museum of Ghosts A visit to the Egyptian capital while government crackdowns are forcing many of its writers and artists to find a way out. Ursula Lindsey