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Life After Trump

By Charles Yu, Mike Jaccarino, A. S. Hamrah, Eileen Myles, Judith Martin, Olivia Laing, Yinka Elujoba, Lauren Oyler, Jane Hu, Liane Carlson, David Owen, Christian Lorentzen, Christopher Beha,

Reality after trump Tabloids after trump Movies after trump Relationships after trump Manners after trump Imagination after trump Gold after trump Conversation after trump Punctuation after trump Apologies after trump…

Is America Ungovernable?

By David Bromwich,

The difference between protest and reform

What’s in a Vote?

By Danielle Allen, Jamelle Bouie, Jason Brennan, Sarah Smarsh, Astra Taylor,

Electoral politics in an ailing democracy

Losing My Religion

By Kevin Baker,

In the Seventies, when I came of age politically, being a lefty was all about believing that “the people” would always save us, if they just knew the truth. We…

An Incoherent Truth

By Thomas Chatterton Williams,

Last fall, Tobi Haslett, a young writer and critic with Marxist leanings, noticed a shift in the contours of popular intellectual debate. “Something is happening out there in the dark…

Vicious Cycles

By Greg Jackson,

Theses on a philosophy of news

The Reichstag Fire Next Time

By Masha Gessen,

The coming crackdown

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 John Ritter,

Swat Team

By Thomas Frank,

The media’s extermination of Bernie Sanders, and real reform

Glasnost Half Full

From the transcript of a staff meeting at RBC, a media company based in Moscow, in July. An audio recording of the meeting was leaked to Meduza, a Russian-language news…

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