Can a Blue Wave Save America?
Vol.
No.
29
4
Fall 2018
Columns
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Can a Blue Wave Save America?
An ordinary wave in November won't be enough. Democrats need a big majority of votes to get even a small majority of seats. And failure could unleash Trump.
Notebook
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Locking Up the Children
The Trump administration's treatment of migrant children as potential criminals has meant lengthy incarcerations for thousands—and an unwelcome shift in mission for the government's children welfare specialists. -
How to Regulate Tech Platforms
Their sheer market power destroys rivals and abuses data of users. -
Who Gets to Tell Stories About Poverty?
The Economic Hardship Reporting Project is redefining how we cover inequality.
Culture
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What Would Jesus Do?
The radical social justice of the early Christian Gospel and its good news for our own day. -
Walmartism and Its Discontents
Most employees loathe their managers, but haven't found a way to go union. -
Tax Evasion Exposed
Senator Carl Levin was the Senate's exemplary investigator of corporate tax scams. -
The 2016 Election Was Ultimately About One Big Thing
A new book argues it was a struggle over identity.
Features
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The Resistance Goes to the Polls
A Very, Very, Very Fine House
If the Democrats do take back the House in November, how should they pursue strategic goals looking forward to 2020? -
The Resistance Goes to the Polls
The Good News from the Voting Wars
How hard-won expansion of voting possibilities could raise turnout, boost the wave—and help our democracy -
The Resistance Goes to the Polls
How Gerrymandering Reform Can Win in the States
Through local action, Democrats this November have a chance to untilt the playing field in every state that now has an extreme partisan gerrymander. -
The Resistance Goes to the Polls
Can a Blue Wave in a Blue State Make Ben Jealous Maryland’s First African American Governor?
He’s running to unseat one of the last remaining moderate Republicans—and he’s running on the left. -
The Resistance Goes to the Polls
Fighting the Republicans’ Voter Purges in Ohio
If you miss voting in an election in Ohio, Republicans make you ineligible to vote in the next one. This year, Democrats are working hard to get Ohioans back on the rolls. -
The Resistance Goes to the Polls
Florida Wrestles with Election Cybersecurity
This purple state remains a plum target for hackers foreign and domestic, and its history of suppressive voting measures complicates efforts at reform. -
Puffins: Harbingers of Climate Change
These small ocean birds are the proverbial canary in the coal mine as the ecology of their habitat worsens. -
Science Under Siege
The Trump administration is undermining research in key areas, but the scientific enterprise continues within the government largely as it was—at least so far. -
Private Equity Pillage: Grocery Stores and Workers At Risk
The private equity business model is to strip assets from companies that they acquire. The latest victims: retail grocery chains -
Making American Democracy Representative
A bold three-part proposal to introduce ranked-choice voting and proportional representation—and to abolish primaries -
Taking Back North Carolina
In control of the gerrymandered legislature, Republicans are trying to strip power from the courts and the governor. The Democrats are fighting them at the polls. -
Mass Transit in the Sun Belt
If you build it, they will come—but not if the system is skimpy and unreliable. -
The Return of American Socialism
A largely millennial movement, with a surprisingly broad base of support, has staked its claim on the nation’s political discourse and direction. -
Mexico’s Hopeful New President
López Obrador’s victory ousted Mexico’s establishment. If U.S. and Canadian progressives work with him, they just might create a more democratic continent. -
The Trade Strategy We Need
Trump isn’t wrong to criticize the trading system. But his policies won’t fix it.
