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March 11-18, 2019, Issue

Cover art by: Robert Sikoryak

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Editorial

Help! I’m Infatuated With Another Professor. Can I Ask Her Out Without Being a Jerk?

Another reader asks if he should discourage his wife from air travel to reduce emissions.

Liza Featherstone

Newsflash!

ignore this… Read More

Peter Kuper

Trump’s ‘National Emergency’ Is a Hot Legal Mess

That should bode well for lawsuits challenging Trump’s emergency declaration—if judges follow legal principles instead of politics.

Elie Mystal

Salvador Allende Offers a Way Out for Venezuela’s Maduro

Chile’s dead president has some advice from beyond the grave.

Ariel Dorfman

Column

Abandoned newspaper vending machines, Covina, California, 2011.

Are We Witnessing the End of News?

If you think the media are in trouble now, just wait till there’s a recession.

Eric Alterman

White People Can’t Quit Blackface

And it’s not because they think it’s funny.

Patricia J. Williams

Barr Becomes Attorney General Again

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Letters From the March 11-28, 2019, Issue

Laughing Through the Pain Thank you for the good laugh you gave me with the title of John Nichols’s article, “Trump at Two” [Feb. 11/18]. I had to pause to ask myself whether the p… Read More

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Feature

How the Failure of Our Foreign Wars Fueled Nativist Fanaticism

For nearly two centuries, US politicians have channeled extremism outward. But the frontier is gone, the empire is faltering, and the chickens are coming home to roost.

Greg Grandin