2016 Archives

2016

The Uncertainty Principle

by Walter Kirn,

The first year of the Trump presidency is behind us. The unimaginable has become the historical. But time, the reputed healer of all wounds, has somehow only aggravated this one.…

Star Search

by Lisa Rab,

The race to rebuild the Democratic Party

W.W.E. the People

by Naomi Klein,

By Naomi Klein, from No Is Not Enough, which was published in June by Haymarket Books. Klein is the author of The Shock Doctrine, among other books.

Texas Is the Future

by Andrew Cockburn,

Can Democrats reconquer the Lone Star State?

The Monument Wars

by Rebecca Solnit,

For years, whenever I was in New Orleans, I used to run past an equestrian statue just outside the voluptuously green City Park. Though it is situated at a major…

Mourning in America

by James Marcus,

A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough, with planted trees on either side, to tempt the traveller, but soon became narrow and…

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by Lincoln Agnew,

In The Hollow

by Chris Offutt,

The changing face of Appalachia—and its role in the presidential race

Trump’s People

by Paul Wood,

Among the fans in Florida, New Hampshire, and Iowa

The Improbability Party

by Walter Kirn,

I like to think I’m unique. Don’t you? Complicated. Surprising. Unpredictable. I like to think that people who’ve only just met me or who know only the basic facts about…

American Imperium

by Andrew J. Bacevich,

Untangling truth and fiction in an age of perpetual war