The Magazine

  • Vol. 30 No. 2
    Spring 2019

    Columns

    Notebook

    Culture

    • Is There Such a Thing as Progressive Nationalism?

      E.J. Dionne

      In his most recent books, John Judis makes the case that there is—and that by indiscriminately embracing globalism, many liberals helped create nationalism’s virulent Trumpian version. 

    • The Courage to Defy Brutality

      Randall Kennedy

      The case of a black Army veteran that spurred a South Carolina federal judge to defy his state's white supremacist power structure

    • Prosecutors Against Mass Incarceration?

      David Garland

      Reform is under way at the nerve center of the penal state, but it won’t be enough.  

    • The Crisis Last Time

      Simon Johnson

      The 2008 financial collapse should have brought the repudiation of neoliberalism. What happened?  

    • The Trouble with Tech

      Micah L. Sifry

      Once you understand the tech giants are capturing unguarded human experience, their business makes sense. 

    • The Unkept Promises of Higher Education

      David Kirp

      Colleges need to focus on their original mission—undergraduate teaching—for a new wave of low-income and minority students.  

    Features

    • Trump and China: The Art of the Desperate Deal

      Robert Kuttner

      Will Robert Lighthizerrestrain Donald Trump’s impulse to take a headline-grabbing and self-defeating China deal?

    • Congress’s New Progressives Take On the Banks

      David Dayen

      The House Financial Services Committee—long a landing place for pro-bank Democrats—now includes AOC and a flock of leftists. And Maxine Waters is its new chair.

    • Beto Versus The Barrio

      Christopher Hooks

      The rock-star Democrat Beto O’Rourke, a candidate for president, once supported the bulldozing of a low-income neighborhood in his hometown of El Paso—a project spearheaded by his father-in-law.

    • Needed: A U.S. Policy on Saudi Arabia

      Jonathan Guyer

      The next administration would do well to 
revise the long-standing U.S. partnership 
with Saudi Arabia, and America has 
substantial leverage to produce change 
in the kingdom’s behavior.

    • The Migration Crisis and the Future of Europe

      Georg Diez

      The identity crisis imperiling the continent isn’t one of race and religion. It’s one of Europe’s willingness to preserve and expand its liberal values.

    • Not So Supreme?

      Ian Millhiser

      Congress actually has a lot of mostly unused power to rein in the Roberts Court by clarifying the intent of the law.

    • Do All Roads Lead to Congestion Pricing?

      Gabrielle Gurley

      Portland, Oregon, and New York are taking different routes to charging drivers who need to get downtown during the rush hour. They’ll also have to think hard about the impacts on low-income residents.

    • AMLO’s Gamble

      Jeff Faux

      Mexico’s decidedly leftist new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is taking on the business-political-criminal elite that has dominated his nation, and drenched it in bloodshed, for the past 40 years.

    • How to Rebuild the Labor Movement, State by State

      Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

      What progressives can learn from conservative anti-union advocacy

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