Print Magazine October 26, 2015 Issue Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue Editorial The Culture That Capitalism Created An interview with Boots Riley. Laura Flanders Why We Can’t Have Nice Things—Like Gun Control Gun extremists in Congress, heavily backed by weapons manufacturers and the NRA, wield wildly disproportionate influence. The Editors Comix Nation Jen Sorensen Bureau of Sex Slavery For Yanar and my sisters in Iraq and Syria. Eve Ensler Column Hillary on ‘Saturday Night Live’ Calvin Trillin Fetal-Tissue Bans Are All About Making Abortion Providers Look Like Monsters Life-saving research is collateral damage in the war on Planned Parenthood. Katha Pollitt Letters Letters From the October 26, 2015, Issue Papal buzzkill… sister act… Bern, baby, bern… fuzzy math?… Greider the great… Our Readers and Bryce Covert Feature Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Climate Justice Movement The new American radicals know that it’s time to fight like there’s nothing left to lose but our humanity. Wen Stephenson I Want My Progressive TV! What If MSNBC Dumps the Left? The cable answer to Fox News is slowly shrinking from the fight. Can digital outlets fill the void? Leslie Savan These People Are the Secret to Bernie Sanders’s Success Sanders leads Hillary Clinton by a comfortable margin in New Hampshire, and he has almost caught her in nationwide fundraising. How did he do it? D.D. Guttenplan Books & the Arts The Good, the Bad, and the Veteran Problem-solving will only get liars and filmmakers so far. Stuart Klawans Who Talks Like That? Lawrence Joseph Jonathan Franzen Withdraws Why are the agonized liberals in Purity so skeptical of political conviction? Jon Baskin How Patti Smith, Punk Chanteuse, Became the Irresistible Siren of Middle Age Her latest memoir, M Train, feels guided simultaneously by determination and serendipity. James Longenbach 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
Why We Can’t Have Nice Things—Like Gun Control Gun extremists in Congress, heavily backed by weapons manufacturers and the NRA, wield wildly disproportionate influence. The Editors
Fetal-Tissue Bans Are All About Making Abortion Providers Look Like Monsters Life-saving research is collateral damage in the war on Planned Parenthood. Katha Pollitt
Letters From the October 26, 2015, Issue Papal buzzkill… sister act… Bern, baby, bern… fuzzy math?… Greider the great… Our Readers and Bryce Covert
Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Climate Justice Movement The new American radicals know that it’s time to fight like there’s nothing left to lose but our humanity. Wen Stephenson
I Want My Progressive TV! What If MSNBC Dumps the Left? The cable answer to Fox News is slowly shrinking from the fight. Can digital outlets fill the void? Leslie Savan
These People Are the Secret to Bernie Sanders’s Success Sanders leads Hillary Clinton by a comfortable margin in New Hampshire, and he has almost caught her in nationwide fundraising. How did he do it? D.D. Guttenplan
The Good, the Bad, and the Veteran Problem-solving will only get liars and filmmakers so far. Stuart Klawans
Jonathan Franzen Withdraws Why are the agonized liberals in Purity so skeptical of political conviction? Jon Baskin
How Patti Smith, Punk Chanteuse, Became the Irresistible Siren of Middle Age Her latest memoir, M Train, feels guided simultaneously by determination and serendipity. James Longenbach