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Echt Deutsch

by Yascha Mounk,

How the refugee crisis is changing a nation’s identity

A Matter of Life

by Mary Cuddehe,

The death penalty as a conservative conundrum

Texas Is the Future

by Andrew Cockburn,

Can Democrats reconquer the Lone Star State?

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…

The Ideology of Isolation

by Rebecca Solnit,

If you boil the strange soup of contemporary right-wing ideology down to a sort of bouillon cube, you find the idea that things are not connected to other things, that…

In Hayange

by Valérie Igounet, Vincent Jarousseau,

In March 2014, Marine Le Pen’s National Front took charge of eleven municipalities, among them Hayange, a city of 16,000 in northeastern France, where the unemployment rate rose to 15…

Front Runner

by Elisabeth Zerofsky,

Marine Le Pen’s campaign to make France great again

Captive Markets

by Michael Ames,

Why we won’t get prison reform

The Trouble with Israel

by Bernard Avishai,

Netanyahu takes the country to the brink

In Regulation Nation

by David Graeber,

By David Graeber, from The Utopia of Rules, published last month by Melville House. Graeber is the author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years. His most recent article for Harper’s…

Captive Market