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May 22-29, 2017, Issue

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Editorial

Asking for a Friend: I Have a Fancy Law Degree, but No One Will Hire Me to Do Good!

And another reader loves a prickly communist.

Liza Featherstone

Out From Under Capitalism

An introduction to our special issue.

Sarah Leonard

The Most Important Story of Trump’s First 100 Days

The United States is a constitutional democracy, whether Trump likes it or not.

David Cole

Column

The People’s Voice Is Heard

Calvin Trillin

The Democratic Party Is Fighting Over Its Future. How Important Will Defending Abortion Rights Be?

It’s one thing to acknowledge that anti-choice Democratic leaders exist. It’s another to say that the party should welcome them to get back into the majority.

Katha Pollitt

The Election Could Give Theresa May a Mandate. It Won’t Give Her a Clue.

There’s no such thing as a successful Brexit, only degrees of bad.

Gary Younge

Letters

Letters From the May 22/29, 2017, Issue

Schlesinger and Navasky on McCarthyism… Pollitt, Navasky, Grandin, and Lawrence on ‘Russiagate’…

Our Readers and Victor Navasky and Patrick Lawrence and Greg Grandin and Katha Pollitt

Feature

The Government Wouldn’t Rein In the Banks’ Predatory Practices—Until These Tellers Stepped In

The Committee for Better Banks is organizing to change the banking industry from the inside out.

Jimmy Tobias

Economic Democracy and the Billion-Dollar Co-op

Is our energy grid a sleeping giant of collective ownership?

Nathan Schneider

Trumpism: It’s Coming From the Suburbs

Racism, fascism, and working-class Americans.

Jesse A. Myerson

The Rock-Star Appeal of Modern Monetary Theory

The Sanders generation and a new economic idea.

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

What Will Kill Neoliberalism?

A roundtable on its fate.

Joelle Gamble and Paul Mason and Bryce Covert and William Darity Jr. and Peter Barnes

Books & the Arts

George Saunders’s Lincoln

The novel ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ examines the Civil War as the root of America’s violent past—and as a possible source of empathy that might release us from it.

Jon Baskin