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March 2/9, 2020, Issue

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Editorial

Trump Doesn’t Hate Welfare When It Goes to Wealthy White Farmers

The president’s farm aid lays bare the racial and class implications of his disdain of government assistance.

Bryce Covert

Author Richard Powers poses for a portrait

Richard Powers on the Standing of Trees

The author of The Overstory hikes through the Great Smoky Mountains and discusses giving personhood to nonhumans.

Zoë Carpenter

The Disastrous Iowa Caucuses Were Just the Beginning

Unless they’re stopped, the Democratic establishment will lose another election.

Jeffrey Cox

Comix Nation

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Ward Sutton

Column

The America We Want to Be

We shouldn’t let Trump’s war on immigrants deplete our capacity for compassion.

Laila Lalami

The Modern GOP Is Built on Lies

In some ways Trump is more truthful than previous Republican presidents.

Eric Alterman

The Removal of Lt. Col. Vindman (and His Brother) From the White House Staff

Calvin Trillin

Letters

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Feature

Kendra Horn Is Radical… for Oklahoma

Democratic centrism may not inspire voters nationwide—but in one of the nation’s most conservative states, it can seem downright revolutionary.

Rebecca Grant

The Woman Behind Elizabeth Warren’s Foreign Policy

The campaign has kept Sasha Baker out of the spotlight, but she wants to shake up the consensus from the inside.

David Klion

Rural America Doesn’t Have to Starve to Death

A predatory and extractive financial sector has hollowed out communities across the US.

Nick Shaxson

Books & the Arts

The Nightmare Touches Its Forehead to My Lips

Andrés Cerpa

070 Shake’s Master Plan

The New Jersey rapper’s debut album is a showcase for a one-of-a-kind voice.

Stephen Kearse

A Smiling Understanding

Stanley Moss

The Making of France’s Presidential System

Focusing on the tensions between top-down reforms and bottom-up democratic discontent, Herrick Chapman’s new history tells a very different story about postwar France.

Hugo Drochon

Ricardo Piglia’s Books of Disquiet

As he witnessed the dissolution of civil society under a series of repressive governments, the Argentine novelist and critic began recording the most mundane parts of everyday life...

Jessica Loudis