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Editorial
Asking for a Friend: My Young Daughter Is Trans—How Do I Get Her on the Right Soccer Team Without Forcing Her to Come Out?
Another reader is worried that his artisanal carpentry limits him to crafting for the 1 percent.
Liza Featherstone
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Utopia? Forget About It. Time for ‘Untopia.’
Striving for the perfect society has been the cause of great misery. We should embrace our imperfections.
Walter Mosley
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The United States May Be Guilty of War Crimes in Yemen
The Saudi air campaign is targeting schools, hospitals, markets—and US military support makes it all possible.
Michael T. Klare
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James Comey Has Discredited Himself and the FBI
And his “October surprise” will do little the change the election’s fundamentals.
The Nation
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Column
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Americans Are Finding New Ways to Join the Surveillance State
Some of them aren’t pretty.
Patricia J. Williams
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Hillary Clinton Has One More Badly Behaved Man Left to Vanquish
Could the clouds of testosterone billowing from the campaign have something to do with the fact that Donald Trump is facing a woman?
Katha Pollitt
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Books & the Arts
Haiti’s Jacobin
A new biography explores the mysterious life and times of Toussaint Louverture.
David A. Bell
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Cosmopolitan Pop
DJ /rupture and MIA capture the new global spirit of pop music.
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
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Baby Hamlet
Ian McEwan’s latest novel returns to a recurring theme—the breakup of the modern family.
Joanna Biggs
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Freud’s Discontents
Why did one of the 20th century’s most influential thinkers fade from significance?
Samuel Moyn
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The Essential Ferrante
How the Italian novelist’s demand to remain anonymous reveals her true identity.
Vivian Gornick
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Zadie Smith’s Liberal Imagination
Once reveling in the hopes and possibilities of a multicultural society, her fiction now has taken on a more despairing outlook.
Adam Kirsch
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Letters
Letters From the November 21, 2016, Issue
State of denial… Platform fetishism?… Breath of fresh air… Drive the vote…
Our Readers and Nathan Schneider
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