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All Over this Land

Local politics in the age of Trump

Rensselaer County, New York

by Lydia Davis,

The latest issue that has come before our village board is whether to add an animal-control regulation to the village laws. A member of the public has come to one…

Who’s Laughing Now?

by Tom Bissell,

The tragicomedy of Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live

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.

Class Dismissed

by Alexandria Neason,

When a state divests from public education

Facing the Furies

by Rebecca Solnit,

In 1979, a catchy Kenny Rogers song called “Coward of the County” made it to the top of the country charts. It’s about a man named Tommy, whose father, a…

You Can Run …

by Walter Kirn,

I have a theory — not a very good one — that the reason Google is so hot to develop self-driving cars is that time behind the wheel is the…

Animal House

From a city-council meeting in White Settlement, Texas, in July 2016. The previous month, the council had voted to evict Browser, a cat who had lived in the local library…

Never Would I Ever

by Donald Trump,

From statements Donald Trump has made in speeches and on Twitter over the past two years.

Defender of the Community

by Alan Feuer,

Bill de Blasio gambles on doing the right thing

From Russia, With Lies

From 1,649 factually untrue reports published by pro-Kremlin media outlets over the past eighteen months. The reports were compiled by the Disinformation Review, a European Union project set up to…