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July 3-10, 2017, Issue

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Editorial

Asking for a Friend: How Can a Working-Class Person Like Me Change the Democrats?

And another reader is struggling with Trump-induced anxiety.

Liza Featherstone

Can Berniecrats Reclaim the Democratic Party?

Activists at this year’s diverse and optimistic People’s Summit think so.

D.D. Guttenplan

Who’s Dividing Us?

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Jen Sorensen

Labour’s Near-Triumph Brings a New Morning to British Politics

Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership offered an end to austerity, a commitment to the public good, the faith that generosity is more powerful than greed.

Maria Margaronis

Donald Trump’s Withdrawal From the Paris Accords Is a Crime Against Humanity

This is murder—even if Trump’s willful ignorance of climate science prevents him from seeing it as such.

Mark Hertsgaard

Column

A Question for Paul Ryan

Calvin Trillin

Burning Down the House

Trump’s climate policy ignores our impending—and shared—global disaster.

Patricia J. Williams

Lying About Climate Change Is What Makes a Good Republican

Yet instead of holding the Koch brothers’ lackeys to account, the media says the GOP’s murder-suicide policy can be chalked up in part to “Democratic hubris.”

Eric Alterman

Letters

Letters From the July 3-10, 2017, Issue

A struggle preserved in sepia… Debt and taxes—and family… Harshing the Dems’ Mello… Puzzled no more… Low notes… Web-only: Exchange between the Wildlife Cons...

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Feature

Lisa, Laquanda, Machelle, and Kenya Were Sentenced as Children to Die in Prison

Decades later, a Supreme Court ruling could give them their freedom.

Danielle Wolffe

The Troubled Resentencing of America’s Juvenile Lifers

When SCOTUS outlawed mandatory juvenile life without parole, advocates celebrated—but the outcome has been anything but fair.

Jessica Pishko

A Progressive Electoral Wave Is Sweeping the Country

The Trump-obsessed big media are mostly ignoring it, but Bernie-inspired activists are winning across the country—including in districts that went for Trump in 2016.

John Nichols