A weekly reading of the magazine’s “Comment” essay.
In “A Climate Change?,” Elizabeth Kolbert writes about climate change and the new age of extinction.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesIn "Trust Me," Amy Davidson Sorkin reports on how last week's debate was largely about how radical, or just how ambitious, the Party and its candidates are prepared to be.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesIn "This Is a Test," Jelani Cobb delves into the clashes over the New York City school system's reforms.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesIn "Another Race to Run," Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about the complexities of the Senate race.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesIn "Hong Kong on the March," Evan Osnos reports on how the mass demonstrations are in bold defiance of Chinese authority, but a crackdown could be incalculably costly.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesIn "See Nothing," Amy Davidson Sorkin reports on the failure to see what Jeffrey Epstein was doing.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesIn "Words and Wounds," David Remnick writes about how President Trump is bearing out Toni Morrison's warnings about the violence of language.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesIn "Lost in Translation," Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about Robert Muller's testimony.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesIn "No Going Back," Jelani Cobb writes about Trump's racist agenda.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesIn "The Health-Care Defense," Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about the battle for healthcare.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesIn "Margin Call," Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about the Democratic Party's moving margins.
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