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Editorial

‘Nation’ Awards

The National Association of Black Journalists’ Salute to Excellence Awards honored our special issue, “The Fight for Racial Justice,” as well as columnist Patricia J. Williams for… Read More

Hillary Clinton Isn’t the First Government Official to Send Secret Messages

From Hoover’s FBI to George W. Bush’s White House, officials have been hiding their communications for decades.

Athan G. Theoharis

The New Mayor of Barcelona Tells Us Her Plans for a Radical City

Once an activist, can Ada Colau make her vision a reality?

Classics of Catholic Economics

In this issue, Nathan Schneider writes about Pope Francis’s economics. Here, he recommends five books of Catholic thought that display strikingly similar concerns to those of secul… Read More

Nathan Schneider

Europe’s Refugee Crisis Was Made in America

Washington helped create the conditions with its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Column

What Candidates Talk About When They Talk About Inequality

Americans are deeply worried about wealth and income gaps. But the issue evinces only confusion on the campaign trail.

Confederate flags

What Do You Get When You Remix the Confederacy for 2015?

Hint: It’s not just biscuits and magnolias.

Patricia J. Williams

Kim Davis

Letters

Letters From the September 28–October 5, 2015, Issue

Ishmael Reed on life in the Major League; Scott Walker as Nixon’s protégé…

Our Readers and Jesse McCarthy

Feature

Illustration by Philip Burke

The Kissinger Effect

Leftists often describe Henry Kissinger as a unique moral monster, but his intellectual framework pervades the entire national security state, from the neocons to Obama.

How Pope Francis Is Reviving Radical Catholic Economics

Some Catholics have been quietly practicing them all along.

Nathan Schneider

Young mothers at a health clinic in Manila. In 2012, the Catholic Church opposed a bill guaranteeing access to birth control and sex education in the Philippines. Credit: Erik de Castro / Reuters

If Pope Francis Really Wanted to Fight Climate Change, He’d Be a Feminist

The world will never be healed of its ecological ills as long as women cannot control their fertility.

Pope Francis confronts the environmental crisis.

How Pope Francis Came to Embrace Not Just Climate Justice but Liberation Theology

And how that poses a radical challenge to both climate deniers and mainstream liberals.

Senator Mitch McConnell

The Danger of ‘Foreign Policy by Bumper Sticker’

The GOP’s paranoia and hubris promises yet another self-inflicted foreign policy disaster.

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Books & the Arts

Billie Holiday and Mister, circa 1946. (Credit: William P. Gottlieb / LOC)

Who Loves You?

America’s ongoing fascination with Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra.

Rafia Zakaria (credit: Jeremy Hogan)

Divided Affections

One writer’s fight against traditions that stifle women in Pakistan.

Muhammad Idrees Ahmad

Diagnosis Inc.

Miriam Toews (credit: Carol Loewen)

The Unfathomable Sadness

Miriam Toews writes about death and mental illness without sentimentality or sweeping platitudes.

Saul Bellow (middle) after acknowledging his receipt of the Nobel Prize in Literature, October 22, 1976. (Credit: Charles Knoblock / AP)

The Flow of Life

Is Saul Bellow the central American novelist since Willa Cather and William Faulkner?

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