Print Magazine June 6-13, 2016 Issue Cover art by: Doug Chayka Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue Editorial Monopoly Power Is on the Rise in the US. Here’s How to Fix That. As industries become more concentrated, the state needs to step in to protect access, innovation, and fairness. Mike Konczal To Beat a Nasty, Brutish Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton Will Have to Do Something Different Old-school triangulation and appealing to moderates is not going to work this year. Bruce Shapiro Michael Ratner, 1943–2016 He pursued justice fearlessly, in the face of daunting odds. David Cole Column Top of the Agenda Calvin Trillin When Religious Exemptions Are a Menace to Public Health The Zika virus shows just how dangerous it is to let religious authority determine public policy. Patricia J. Williams In Cosmopolitan Vienna, It’s Easy to Miss the Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Surging Across Austria Even conservative Austrians want a generous welfare state—but, increasingly, they don’t want it for new arrivals. Katha Pollitt Letters Letters From the June 6-13, 2016, Issue The article, unfinished… Our Readers and Barry Schwabsky Books & the Arts Google Earth Peter Gizzi Reverb Peter Gizzi Instagrammar Peter Gizzi The Annie Dillard Show In felicitous language, she enables us to see the world afresh. But there is always a distance, a sense of performance. Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow Benedict Anderson’s View of Nationalism The child of late empire, who transformed the field of area studies, lived a life beyond boundaries. Scott Sherman The Soul of the Tea Party The Koch brothers may have paid for some buses, but Fox News and talk radio filled them with bodies. David Bromwich A Blues for Albert Murray His name was never household familiar. Yet his complex, mind-opening analysis of art and life remains as timely as ever—probably more so. Thomas Chatterton Williams The Anthropocene Truism Humans and the environment have never been separable. But what does the idea mean for politics? Katrina Forrester Don DeLillo’s American Dream His recent protagonists dream only of money, except perhaps for the technological advances that will allow them to go on acquiring it indefinitely. Jon Baskin 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
Monopoly Power Is on the Rise in the US. Here’s How to Fix That. As industries become more concentrated, the state needs to step in to protect access, innovation, and fairness. Mike Konczal
To Beat a Nasty, Brutish Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton Will Have to Do Something Different Old-school triangulation and appealing to moderates is not going to work this year. Bruce Shapiro
When Religious Exemptions Are a Menace to Public Health The Zika virus shows just how dangerous it is to let religious authority determine public policy. Patricia J. Williams
In Cosmopolitan Vienna, It’s Easy to Miss the Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Surging Across Austria Even conservative Austrians want a generous welfare state—but, increasingly, they don’t want it for new arrivals. Katha Pollitt
The Annie Dillard Show In felicitous language, she enables us to see the world afresh. But there is always a distance, a sense of performance. Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Benedict Anderson’s View of Nationalism The child of late empire, who transformed the field of area studies, lived a life beyond boundaries. Scott Sherman
The Soul of the Tea Party The Koch brothers may have paid for some buses, but Fox News and talk radio filled them with bodies. David Bromwich
A Blues for Albert Murray His name was never household familiar. Yet his complex, mind-opening analysis of art and life remains as timely as ever—probably more so. Thomas Chatterton Williams
The Anthropocene Truism Humans and the environment have never been separable. But what does the idea mean for politics? Katrina Forrester
Don DeLillo’s American Dream His recent protagonists dream only of money, except perhaps for the technological advances that will allow them to go on acquiring it indefinitely. Jon Baskin