February 2017 Volume 41, Issue 02

February 2017

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Viewpoint

Voting Doesn’t Have To Be Winner-Take-All Joel Bleifuss

The GOP’s Healthcare Plans Have Awakened the Wrath of a Powerful Constituency: Older Americans Susan J. Douglas

Does the Left Bear Any Blame for Donald Trump? James Thindwa and Kathleen Geier

Diane Ravitch: Trump’s Nominee for Secretary of Education Could Gut Public Ed Diane Ravitch

Feature

Bernie Sanders: Corporate Media Threatens Our Democracy Bernie Sanders

Attacked by Trump and Ignored by Democrats: Chuck Jones on Labor’s Fight Micah Uetricht

Rex Tillerson Could Be America’s Most Dangerous Secretary of State Antonia Juhasz

Dispatch

With Donald Trump as President, Americans Are Flocking to Socialism Kate Aronoff

State of Rebellion: How California Is Taking on the Trump Administration Hannah Guzik

Culture

Meet the Folkestones Jane Miller

Neoliberalism, Cranked up to 11 Chris Lehmann

Reflections on Barack Obama: A Great and Disappointing President Salim Muwakkil

What We Can Learn From the Pacifist Movement Against World War I Theo Anderson

We Hunted Down the 10 Best Films of 2016 Michael Atkinson

Bernie Sanders: Corporate Media Threatens Our Democracy

This is a crisis we can no longer afford to ignore.

Bernie Sanders

Attacked by Trump and Ignored by Democrats: Chuck Jones on Labor’s Fight

The local labor leader discusses Carrier, outsourcing and being targeted by the president-elect on Twitter.

Micah Uetricht

Rex Tillerson Could Be America’s Most Dangerous Secretary of State

The former Exxon Mobil CEO spent his entire adult life working for a company that has left a trail of carnage in its ruthless pursuit of oil.

Antonia Juhasz

Meet the Folkestones

A small British town that voted for Brexit.

Voting Doesn’t Have To Be Winner-Take-All

To get people engaged in politics, we need an electoral system based on proportional representation.

Neoliberalism, Cranked up to 11

Jonathan Coe's Number 11 offers a bleak portrait of what Britain has become.

With Donald Trump as President, Americans Are Flocking to Socialism

Membership in the Democratic Socialists of America has surged since the election.

The GOP’s Healthcare Plans Have Awakened the Wrath of a Powerful Constituency: Older Americans

Baby boomers won't take cuts to Medicare and Social Security without a fight.

Susan J. Douglas

State of Rebellion: How California Is Taking on the Trump Administration

On immigration and other issues, the state's legislature has signaled it does not intend to cooperate with the new president.

Does the Left Bear Any Blame for Donald Trump?

The role of progressives in the 2016 election.

James Thindwa and Kathleen Geier

Reflections on Barack Obama: A Great and Disappointing President

Hope, change and the limits of the office.

What We Can Learn From the Pacifist Movement Against World War I

Although they failed to keep us out of the war, they organized effectively in conditions frighteningly similar to our own.

Diane Ravitch: Trump’s Nominee for Secretary of Education Could Gut Public Ed

Billionaire Betsy DeVos will be great for private, religious and charter schools—and bad news for students and teachers.

We Hunted Down the 10 Best Films of 2016

From the Iranian mystery Fireworks Wednesday to the German black comedy Toni Erdmann, this year's stand-out films were far off the beaten path.

Michael Atkinson

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