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June 17-24, 2019, Issue

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Editorial

Trump’s Plan to Deny Benefits: Pretend People Aren’t Poor

By redefining poverty, millions fewer people would be able to take advantage of lifesaving programs.

Bryce Covert

Begging Your Pardon

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Matt Bors

Trump Is Embracing Climate Destruction

Can we act in time to avoid the worst?

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Bernie’s Plan to Save Public Schools

Sanders has the most progressive education platform in modern American history.

Nikhil Goyal

Column

How Bad Can Brexit Get?

Theresa May is out, but the crisis that made her premiership both possible and untenable has intensified.

Gary Younge

A Man’s Guide to Abortion

You don’t have to be a woman to stand up for reproductive rights.

Katha Pollitt

White House Stonewall

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Letters From the June 17-24, 2019, Issue

A Nation of Elites? Katha Pollitt’s trenchant first-person account of the 1969 student strike at Harvard University [“Harvard’s Strike at 50,” May 20/27] raises a question about Th… Read More

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Feature

In the Heart of Real-Estate Power, a Housing Movement Nears Victory

As tenants organize, New York could become one of the first states to pass “universal rent control.”

Jimmy Tobias

Force-Feeding Is Cruel, Painful, and Degrading—and American Prisons Won’t Stop

In a Colorado supermax facility, hunger-striking inmates have been force-fed and barred from sharing their ordeal with the outside world. A prisoner breaks his silence for the firs...

Aviva Stahl