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Features
Gun Sales Are Plummeting and Trump Wants to Help
The NRA’s new playbook includes guns for kids and open carry in every state.
George Zornick
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Macron on the March in France
Many voters share his belief that the current crisis requires a different kind of politics—but can Macron deliver the goods?
Arthur Goldhammer
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African Americans Have Lost Untold Acres of Land Over the Last Century
An obscure legal loophole is often to blame.
Leah Douglas
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Editorials
Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Claims to Relieve Taxpayers—but It’s a Sleight of Hand
Privatization will cost all of us.
Bryce Covert
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The GOP Health-Care Bill Isn’t Dead Yet
A delay in the Senate doesn’t mean Republicans have given up.
The Nation
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Trump’s Election Win Is Already Being Felt on the Supreme Court
Neil Gorsuch looks to be just as conservative as Scalia—and if Trump gets to replace Kennedy, the Court will be as conservative as it’s been in a century.
David Cole
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The Republican Health-Care Plan Explained
“Oh come on, we don’t need affordable health care. People can always go to the emergency room!”
Tom Tomorrow
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Columns
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Moderate Republicans Are Quietly Helping the GOP Set Equality Back
There’s a reason they aren’t passionately opposing radical health-care cuts.
Kai Wright
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If Trump Is Julius Caesar, Then Americans Are a Confused and Violent Mob
Julius Caesar is hardly an endorsement of assassination—but neither is it the celebration of “small-d democrats” that the Public Theater wants it to be.
Katha Pollitt
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Books and the Arts
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The Ambiguous Sculptures of Melvin Edwards and Rachel Harrison
Time spent with their work serves as a reminder that most good artists don’t provide ironclad justifications for their choices
Barry Schwabsky
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Socialism’s Past and Future
Axel Honneth’s new book seeks to give renewed meaning to the socialist ideal.
Martin Jay
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Grace Paley’s Crowded World
In her life, as in her writing, the boundaries between the personal and the political were remarkably porous.
Maggie Doherty
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Letters
Letters From the July 17-14, 2017, Issue
Not that unpopular… Subject, verb… violence… DNC MIA… Applause for Merkley… Perriello: promise and peril… Thoughtful space… Top keavy…
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