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January 30, 2017, Issue

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Editorial

New York MTA MetroCard

Public Transportation Is a Necessity. Why Does New York Price It Like a Luxury?

It’s time for the city to subsidize MetroCards for low-income New Yorkers.

David R. Jones and Nancy Rankin

Asking for a Friend: How Can I Embrace Kinky Sex in a ‘Pussy-Grabbing’ Era?

Another reader wants to know: Should I dispute my distant relatives’ awful opinions?

Liza Featherstone

Trump Mar-a-lago

The Confirmation Process Is an Opportunity to Expose Trump’s Big Lie

Activists should highlight the president-elect’s bait-and-switch from fake populist to country-club reactionary.

Mississippi Prison Riot

Obama’s DOJ Says It One More Time: Private Prisons Aren’t Working

Another audit is perhaps the final piece of official evidence countering Donald Trump’s belief in for-profit incarceration.

Seth Freed Wessler

Column

Anti-Putin Protest Portrait

A New Era in American-Russian Relations

Donald Trump Christmas

The American Press Is Under Threat as Never Before

A supplicant media will be no match for the compulsive liar in the White House.

Letters

Letters From the January 30, 2017, Issue

The kids are all right… A people’s party?… Acting, yes, locally… A college education… Popularity contest(ed)…

Feature

Can New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio Be the Anti-Trump?

To succeed he’ll have to overcome controversy and the limits of his office.

The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement

An eloquent call to reclaim our history and honor those who resisted the war, from a key architect of the opposition.

US Citizenship Ceremony

How Donald Trump Will Make America White Again

His plan for fixing the legal immigration system is simple and disturbing: Bring back 1890.

Books & the Arts

Harvey Cox’s Radicalism

How the theologian and social critic reminds us of the radical possibilities and egalitarian hopes of a Christian left.

Elizabeth Bruenig

Birth of an Imperial Nation

A new history of 19th-century America captures how the United States was always an empire.

It’s the World Committing Suicide Said One Mom

I Can Barely Stand To

Childish Gambino

The Donald Glover Experiment

Who says the comedian, actor, rapper, TV writer can’t be everything all at once?

Marcus J. Moore

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