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February 12-19, 2018, Issue

Cover art by: Victor Juhasz

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Editorial

When Is It OK to Comment on a Woman’s Appearance?

Another reader asks how one can in good conscience bring a child into this sad world.

Liza Featherstone

The Most Important Story This Month Was Not the Government Shutdown

It’s the grassroots activism that could end Republican control of Congress.

John Nichols

Ahed Tamimi Has Become the Symbol of a New Generation of Palestinian Resistance

It would be far better, however, if she could just be a child.

Ben Ehrenreich

Column

The Appalling Clarity of Donald Trump

The US has long treated much of Africa, the Caribbean, and the rest of the world as shitholes.

Gary Younge

The End of Men’s ‘Freedom to Bother’

We’re on the verge of a new normal in the workplace. That’s a good thing.

Katha Pollitt

Trump Aces Animal-ID Question on Cognitive Test

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Letters From the February 12-19, 2018, Issue

Red Famine revisited… Faith in community…

Our Readers

Feature

Why There’s So Little Suspense Ahead of Russia’s March Presidential Elections

It’s widely assumed Putin will win. The real question is what will happen in six years, and whether the authoritarian system first established by Boris Yeltsin will persist.

Tony Wood

Will Lebanon Force a Million Syrian Refugees to Return to a War Zone?

As anti-refugee sentiment grows in Lebanon, desperate Syrians may be forced to choose between staying in a place that doesn't want them and returning to a broken country.

Eric Reidy

California Shows How to Beat Trump, Now and in November

America’s future arrives first in California, and that bodes ill for the president and his Republican enablers.

Peter Schrag

Books & the Arts

Feminist Living: Lynne Segal

For Segal, politics is not just about liberation but about collective joy.

Charlotte Shane

What Causes Some Cities to Become Sites of Revolution?

To understand the American and French revolutions, one must look not simply at their origins in the wider world but also at how particular environments could become crucibles of in...

David A. Bell