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Feature
Long-Acting Contraception Makes Teen Pregnancy Rates Plummet. So Why Are Some Women Still Skeptical?
The history of birth control in America is littered with instances of coercion. Reproductive-justice advocates don’t want to see that happen again.
Dani McClain
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Think We Can’t Stabilize the Climate While Fostering Growth? Think Again.
Long-term investments in clean energy would curb emissions and create millions of jobs around the globe.
Robert Pollin
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Editorial
The Benghazi Hearing Was a Waste of Time. These Congressional Hearings Wouldn’t Be.
From drone strikes to Exxon’s climate coverup—Congress has no shortage of worthy subjects to investigate.
The Editors
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How Bernie Sanders Should Talk About Democratic Socialism
Instead of looking to Europe, Sanders could evoke the rich heritage of American radicalism.
Eric Foner
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Column
Meet Paul Ryan, Media Darling. He’s Sensible, Serious, and Totally Made-Up.
Fawning portrayals of the new House speaker insist he’s the Republicans’ savior. He’s not.
Eric Alterman
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The Trouble With Jeremy Corbyn’s Mainstream Revolution
His supporters are, as yet, anything but socialist zealots—and that’s gonna be a problem.
Gary Younge
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Books & the Arts
Is Complicity Now the Entry Fee for Critique?
A new app brings clarity to an old situation: the collaboration between journalism and capitalism.
Joshua Clover
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Imperialism With an Internationalist Face
In her masterful new study of the League of Nations, Susan Pedersen shows how the organization helped prolong the era of colonialism.
Martti Koskenniemi
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It’s an Old Trope, but How Well Does the Factory Model Explain Pop Music?
A new book about the music industry misses the fact that we’ve already entered the post-industrial age.
David Hajdu
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Modernist Poetry in a Crowdsourcing Age
Jorie Graham resists classic pleasures like closure, a concept anathema to the poet and her country.
Ange Mlinko
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Letters
Letters From the November 16, 2015, Issue
For the love of Bernie… when loco parentis is loco… in defense of the pope… fetal distraction…
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