The Magazine

  • Vol. 27 No. 1
    Winter 2016

    Columns

    Notebook

    • Going After the Big Bucks

      Eliza Newlin Carney

      Pumping big money into the national political parties, as many now propose, would weaken the parties in the long run and invite another round of soft-money abuses.

    • Progressive California: The Long Road Back

      Peter Schrag

      The Golden State is the nation’s most liberal—but it has yet to untie its fiscal knots.

    • Tickets Out of Poverty?

      Jake Blumgart

      Housing voucher recipients can move to better neighborhoods only if states and localities break down suburban barriers.

    Culture

    • Perpetually Outraged, Perpetually Outrageous

      Paul Waldman

      Donald Trump, a candidate with all the subtlety of talk radio, is the perfect expression of both the politics and media of our time.

    • Leading from the Left

      E.J. Dionne

      For Ted Kennedy, political leadership meant moving public opinion—not chasing after an elusive center. 

    • The Big Financial Divide

      Lisa J. Servon

      Why we have one banking system for the well-off and a “Wild West” fringe for everyone else

    • Shall We Be Released?

      Dana Goldstein

      The mass folly of mass incarceration and the road back to sane prison policy.

    • The War on the Poor

      Peter Edelman

      The welfare reform of the 1990s left millions of Americans near destitution.

    • It Didn't Start with Stonewall

      Peter Montgomery

      A new history deepens our understanding of the origins of the gay rights movement and the transformation it has brought about.

    • Perpetually Outraged, Perpetually Outrageous

      Paul Waldman

      Donald Trump, a candidate with all the subtlety of talk radio, is the perfect expression of both the politics and media of our time.

    Features

    • Grace Under Fire

      Rachel M. Cohen

      Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards is one of the nation’s premier political strategists and organizers—exactly what the cause of reproductive rights needs now more than ever.

    • The Uber Challenge

      Steven Greenhouse

      Uber drivers are getting creative in their fight for basic workplace rights. 

      Related: A Safety Net for On-Demand Workers? by Steven Greenhouse 

    • The Other Tech Bubble

      Margaret O’Mara

      How tech companies became detached from urban life and its problems—even when the city is their home.

    • Vultures Over Puerto Rico

      David Dayen

      Vulture investors have descended on the commonwealth, taking advantage of a debt crisis that has impoverished citizens and created massive unemployment.

    • Black Culture & History Matter

      Kirsten Mullen

      It took 150 years after America officially abolished slavery to get a national museum on the black experience.

    • The New Inequality Debate

      Robert Kuttner

      More mainstream economists now find that the income mal-distribution reflects the political sway of elites, not economic imperatives.

    • Can the Democrats Channel America's Discontent?

      Harold Meyerson

      The party has moved left in response to hard times. That should help it at the polls—but will it?

    • The Budgetary Backdoor to Reduced Minority Representation

      Gary D. Bass & Adrien Schless-Meier

      The political and economic ramifications of a tightened Census budget.

    • Race and Representation in the Twilight of the Obama Era

      Derrick Jackson

      Will the eight years of America’s first black president lead to more political voice for black citizens—or less?

    • That Sinking Feeling

      Nathalie Baptiste

      Why is Miami—America’s most vulnerable metropolis to sea-level rise—having yet another beachfront development boom?

    • Labor Goes South

      Justin Miller

      Can the movement rebuild itself below the Mason-Dixon line, and change Southern politics in the process?

    • The Likely Persistence of a White Majority

      Richard Alba

      How Census Bureau statistics have misled thinking about the American future. 

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