Print Magazine August 13-20, 2018, Issue Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue Editorial My Houseguest Was a Brocialist Jerk. How Should I Respond? Another reader asks if it’s helpful to offer to be a personal suicide hotline. Liza Featherstone Parsing the Surreal From the Sensible in Trump’s Helsinki Performance He made many bizarre comments, but he is right to want to reduce tensions with Russia. Katrina vanden Heuvel Keeping Kavanaugh off the Supreme Court Senate confirmation of Trump’s pick is not a done deal, and a quick look at the judge’s influences tells you why it shouldn’t be. Bruce Shapiro Comix Nation ignore this… Read More Peter Kuper Column How the Trump Administration Is Normalizing Immigrant Internment Camps If the Muslim ban is any guide, an idea that was once considered insane will soon become acceptable. Laila Lalami Seymour Hersh Against the World Our most valuable living investigative reporter disdained those who cozied up to power. Eric Alterman Trump Baby Over London Calvin Trillin Letters Letters From the August 13-20, 2018, Issue Reader interventions… Giant step… Our Readers Feature This Washington State Ballot Measure Fights for Both Jobs and Climate Justice Initiative 1631 would put a carbon fee on big polluters, using the revenue to invest in clean energy and protections for workers in fossil-fuel industries. Sasha Abramsky Journalism in the Age of Trump: What’s Missing and What Matters Has the preoccupation with the president pushed aside other urgent stories? Michael Massing In the Age of Disaster Capitalism, Is ‘Survival Socialism’ the Solution? A look at the British Labour Party’s plan to transform the economy from the ground up. Laura Flanders Books & the Arts Eight Slateku John Lee Clark Fashion’s Cycle Rosa Alcala Can Charles Mills Save Liberal Philosophy From Itself? In his new book, the philosopher argues that political theory has obscured the history of racism in liberal societies. Christopher Lebron Aline Kominsky-Crumb’s Radical Honesty In her books, the cartoonist constantly reworks the raw materials of her life. Jillian Steinhauer Kamasi Washington’s Love Letter Heaven and Earth is a bold step in Washington’s attempt to make music that explores deeper states of consciousness. Marcus J. Moore 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
My Houseguest Was a Brocialist Jerk. How Should I Respond? Another reader asks if it’s helpful to offer to be a personal suicide hotline. Liza Featherstone
Parsing the Surreal From the Sensible in Trump’s Helsinki Performance He made many bizarre comments, but he is right to want to reduce tensions with Russia. Katrina vanden Heuvel
Keeping Kavanaugh off the Supreme Court Senate confirmation of Trump’s pick is not a done deal, and a quick look at the judge’s influences tells you why it shouldn’t be. Bruce Shapiro
How the Trump Administration Is Normalizing Immigrant Internment Camps If the Muslim ban is any guide, an idea that was once considered insane will soon become acceptable. Laila Lalami
Seymour Hersh Against the World Our most valuable living investigative reporter disdained those who cozied up to power. Eric Alterman
This Washington State Ballot Measure Fights for Both Jobs and Climate Justice Initiative 1631 would put a carbon fee on big polluters, using the revenue to invest in clean energy and protections for workers in fossil-fuel industries. Sasha Abramsky
Journalism in the Age of Trump: What’s Missing and What Matters Has the preoccupation with the president pushed aside other urgent stories? Michael Massing
In the Age of Disaster Capitalism, Is ‘Survival Socialism’ the Solution? A look at the British Labour Party’s plan to transform the economy from the ground up. Laura Flanders
Can Charles Mills Save Liberal Philosophy From Itself? In his new book, the philosopher argues that political theory has obscured the history of racism in liberal societies. Christopher Lebron
Aline Kominsky-Crumb’s Radical Honesty In her books, the cartoonist constantly reworks the raw materials of her life. Jillian Steinhauer
Kamasi Washington’s Love Letter Heaven and Earth is a bold step in Washington’s attempt to make music that explores deeper states of consciousness. Marcus J. Moore