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American Duce

Is Donald Trump a fascist or a plutocrat?

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…

Defender of the Community

by Alan Feuer,

Bill de Blasio gambles on doing the right thing

Echt Deutsch

by Yascha Mounk,

How the refugee crisis is changing a nation’s identity

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by John Ritter,

Tyranny of the Minority

by Rebecca Solnit,

Think of our democracy as a house we built in 1776, big enough only for Christian, property-owning white men. Over the next two centuries, various groups struggled to make it…

Night Terrors

by Lucy Corin,

From reports of dreams and fantasies that Lucy Corin collected from friends and acquaintances after the 2016 presidential election. Corin is the author, most recently, of One Hundred Apocalypses and…

Texas Is the Future

by Andrew Cockburn,

Can Democrats reconquer the Lone Star State?

Black Like Who?

by Calvin Baker,

How Obama negotiated America’s racial tightrope

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…

A Peculiar Virtue

by Gerald W. (Gerald White) Johnson,

Only once have we elected a really ignorant man to the Presidency. Andrew Jackson was almost completely innocent of book-learning when he came to the White House. Furthermore, he was…