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Feature
Black Deaths Matter
Historic black cemeteries have devolved into trash dumps and overgrown forests, while tidy Confederate memorials still draw public funding.
Seth Freed Wessler
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3 Years After Hurricane Sandy, Is New York Prepared for the Next Great Storm?
New York is spending $20 billion to protect its shores from sea-level rise—but that may not be enough.
Jarrett Murphy
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The US Massacre in Kunduz Exposes the Bankruptcy of Obama’s National-Security Policy
Air power inflicts horrific human-rights violations and has been thoroughly discredited as a means of fighting insurgencies.
Bob Dreyfuss
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Editorial
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We Should Never Pay Down Our $17 Trillion Debt—Just Ask the IMF
Our money is better spent elsewhere, for a few simple reasons.
Mike Konczal
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How Bernie Changed the Democratic Debate
The other candidates followed his lead, and leaned left.
The Editors
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This Is How Immigration Reform Happened 50 Years Ago. It Can Happen Again.
Recalling the civil-rights history of the Hart-Celler Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 can help us think about how to change immigration policy today.
Mae Ngai
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Column
2 Things You Won’t Learn From the New Steve Jobs Film
Apple is relentless toward its overseas labor force and remarkably innovative in its approach to tax avoidance.
Eric Alterman
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How Could Tamir Rice’s Death Be ‘Reasonable’?
Imaginative legal reasoning deals a real blow.
Patricia J. Williams
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Books & the Arts
Vagrancy in the Park
The essence of Wallace Stevens: Roses, roses. Fable and dream. The pilgrim sun.
Susan Howe
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Rot as Rapture, Filth as Rebellion
In Ottessa Moshfegh’s first full-length novel, the allure of dissolution is that it demands nothing.
Katie Ryder
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Letters
Letters From the November 2, 2015, Issue
Judging the Court… Hitchens’s exceptionalism… Don’t burn Bernie!… Sinatra always had a cold…
Our Readers and Greg Grandin