The Magazine

  • Vol. 30 No. 1
    Winter 2019

    Columns

    Notebook

    Culture

    • Getting Angry at the Right Targets in the Right Way

      Stephanie Coontz

      Catharsis is good, but effectiveness matters more. 

    • Value Beyond Price

      Mike Konczal

      It isn't only the marketplace that determines worth. 

    • The New Economic Concentration

      David Dayen

      The competition that justifies capitalism is being destroyed—by capitalists. 

    • Whose Recovery Was It?

      Sarah Bloom Raskin

      How the government rescued finance while retaining most of the abuses that caused the collapse

    • The Digital Destruction of Democracy

      Anya Schiffrin

      Social media is the best friend disinformation ever had, and the cure is far from obvious. 

    Features

    • Beyond 2018

      Imperatives for Democrats

      Harold Meyerson

      For all their differences, House Democrats need to unite around a pro-worker agenda. The party also needs a smart way to winnow its immense field of presidential prospects.
    • Beyond 2018

      A New Playing Field for Democracy Reform

      Miles Rapoport & Cecily Hines

      To win substantive reforms, our system is overdue for structural reforms. 2018 creates an opening. 
    • Beyond 2018

      Winning the Gender Wars

      Anna Greenberg

      Feminism and misogyny have assumed larger roles in Americans’ electoral identities. This worked to the Democrats’ advantage in the midterms, but may not in the presidential race two years hence.
    • Beyond 2018

      How Democrats Should Reform Elections in the States

      Richard H. Pildes

      Some reforms will be easy. The harder steps will be the real task. 
    • Beyond 2018

      States of Change

      Amy Hanauer

      The election win wasn't just about Congress. Many of the openings for democratic reform will be in the states. 
    • Beyond 2018

      Was Beto the Texas Democrats' Lone Star?

      Justin Miller

      O'Rourke's near victory has them seeing purple—but can they keep turning out more voters and moving Texas leftward when he's not on the ballot?
    • Beyond 2018

      A New South Rising: This Time for Real

      Bob Moser

      The midterms made clear that progressive candidates can retake the region with young and minority voters.

    • Unlearning the Lessons of Hillbilly Elegy

      Stanley Greenberg

      America's beleaguered poor and working class have a host of problems, but the culture of irresonsibility that J.D. Vance says they're prey to isn't one of them. 

    • EPA Rollbacks: Hurting Americans Where They Live

      Derrick Z. Jackson

      A look inside the agency's Midwest office

    • Reproductive Rights at Risk, With or Without Roe

      Kalena Thomhave

      In much of the country, access to abortion has already been blocked by state governments, especially for women in poverty. And if Roe goes, access will be scarcer still. 

    • The Return of the Strike

      Steven Greenhouse

      This year, thousands of teachers, hotel workers, Google employees, and others walked off the job and won major gains. Which raises two questions: Why now? And will this continue?

    • British Labour's Self-Inflicted Marginalization

      Denis MacShane

      Why Her Majesty's Opposition is failing to demolish the feeble Theresa May

    • The First Priority: Making America a Democracy

      Erwin Chemerinsky

      How Americans can move their country toward majority rule

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