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March 6, 2017, Issue

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Editorial

Iraqi army in Mosul

If Trump Wants to Defeat ISIS, He’d Better Stop Alienating Muslims

From the Salafi Muslims who beat the terrorists in Libya to the Shiite militias of Iraq, they are crucial allies in this fight.

Keith Ellison with Trump poster

Resisting Trump Is Not Enough

Progressives also need to advance a concrete agenda, and that means taking on Democrats-In-Name-Only.

Robert L. Borosage

President Donald Trump

Why Trump Lies

Rattled by the resistance movement, Trump and his sycophants are just making stuff up.

Column

Donald Trump

Populists in Place

Senator Warren reacts to Sessions' hearing

Honor Is a Tool for Repression in the Age of Trump

Shutting up Elizabeth Warren is part of a long tradition of upholding gentlemen’s status at the expense of truth.

Patricia J. Williams

trump bibi

The Trump-Bibi-Murdoch Love Triangle Puts Us All at Risk

Flouting the laws and sacrificing truth, the new mogul empire is a perpetual-motion machine fueled almost entirely on bullshit.

Letters

Letters From the March 6, 2017, Issue

The illegitimate president… Life, death, and the ACA… Resistance primer … Where salvation lies?… The meaning of a free press…

Feature

49 Years Ago, Harry Belafonte Hosted the Tonight Show—and It Was Amazing

He interviewed RFK and MLK months before their deaths. Fifteen of 25 guests were African American.

What It’s Like to Be Black and Pregnant When You Know How Dangerous That Can Be

I knew I had a find a way to have a healthy birth—despite what the statistics were telling me.

What’s Killing America’s Black Infants?

Racism is fueling a national health crisis.

Books & the Arts

Is ‘The Salesman’ the Best Foreign-Language Film of 2016?

Stuart Klawans on Asghar Farhadi’s new feature.

Epivir, d4T, Crixivan

Saul Friedländer’s Many Lives

What is the relationship between the Holocaust’s history and its memory?

Peter E. Gordon

Edward Jay Epstein’s Alternative Facts

A new book suggests Snowden may have been a spy, but what it reveals is its author’s own duplicity.

Austra’s Ear for the Moment

The band’s new album calls for the future by harkening to the past.

Erin Vanderhoof

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