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Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers? The conventional answer is that a popular uprising against "big government" led to the rise of a broad-based conservative movement.

Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers? The conventional answer is that a popular uprising against "big government" led to the ascendancy of a broad-based conservative movement.

In this issue: "Reality Shows" by Evan Osnos: Trump, Kim, Cohen, and the limits of the President's power; "Holding the Note" by David Remnick: Is the guitarist and singer Buddy Guy the last bluesman?; "Trump TV" by Jane Mayer: Fox News has always been partisan. But has it become propaganda?

Charged with racial, sexual, and political overtones, the confirmation of Clarence Thomas as a Supreme Court justice was one of the most divisive spectacles the country has ever seen. Anita Hill's accusation of sexual harassment by Thomas, and the attacks on her that were part of his high-placed supporters rebuttal, both shocked the nation and split it into two camps. In this brilliant, often shocking book, Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson, two of the nation's top investigative journalists, examine all aspects of this controversial case.

In this issue: "The Next Confirmation" by Amy Davidson Sorkin: Do the Democrats have a post-Kavanaugh, post-midterm game plan; "The Forgotten Ones " by Rachel Aviv: A child's journey through Georgia's special-education system; "Russia Won " by Jane Mayer: A scholar argues that, in the 2016 election, Putin’s meddling was decisive; "Departure Lounge" by James Wood: A category-defying novel about the merits of movement.

In this issue: "Eurotrump" by Amy Davidson; "Trump's Money Man" by Jane Mayer; "The Listener" by Michael Schulman; "Life as Fiction" by Ruth Franklin; and "Pretty and Gritty" by Anthony Lane.

In this issue: "Across the Divide" by Jelani Cobb; "Trump's Boswell Speaks" by Jane Mayer; "Captain of Her Soul" by Rachel Aviv; "Counting Sheeple" by Emily Nussbaum; and "Funny Women" by Anthony Lane.

"Beware of Romneycare", by James Surowiecki; "The Voter-Fraud Myth", by Jane Mayer; "Atonement", by Dexter Filkins; and "We, the Polity", by Adam Kirsch.

"Euro Science", by John Lanchester; "A Waste of Energy?", by James Surowiecki; "The Golden Age", by Calvin Trillin; "State for Sale", by Jane Mayer; "Free Everything", by Miranda July; "To Catch a Beat", by Jonathan Lethem; and "Primary Suspect", by Anthony Lane.

"Off and Running", by Hendrik Hertzberg; “Versatile”, by Tad Friend; "The Secret Sharer", by Jane Mayer; "Test-Tube Burgers", by Michael Specter; and "The Better Life", by David Denby.

"Just Married", by Amy Davidson; "Operation Steinway", by Michael Schulman; "Apologia", by Jeffrey Frank; "Covert Operations", by Jane Mayer; and "On the Prison Highway", by Ian Frazier.

"And the Oscar Goes to", by Hendrik Hertzberg; "Irony 101", by Ben McGrath; "The Trial", by Jane Mayer; "Drinking Games", by Malcolm Gladwell; and "The Way of Her Flesh", by Hilton Als.

"The Obama Effect", by Hendrik Hertzberg; "Home Visit", by Ariel Levy; "The Secret History", by Jane Mayer; "Real Romance", by Lauren Collins; and "Off the Rails", by Anthony Lane.

"Obamaism", by George Packer; "The Bush Six", by Jane Mayer; "Can Iran Change?", by Jon Lee Anderson; "I.O.U.", by Jill Lepore; and "Friends", by Anthony Lane.

"Read All About It", by Steve Coll; "The Black Sites", by Jane Mayer; "Aesop in the City", by Yoni Brenner; "Slippery Business", by Tom Mueller; "Lover Beware", by Anthony Lane.

"Images" by Jane Kramer; "Regretfully, Dick" by Lauren Collins; "The Memo" by Jane Mayer; "Suitable for Framing" by David Sedaris; "My Father's Tears" by John Updike.

"Too Many Chiefs" by Hendrik Hertzberg; "Whatever It Takes" by Jane Mayer; "The Way We Are" by David Sedaris; "The Deliverer" by Peter Boyer; and "Double Lives" by David Denby.

"Lost Love" by Hendrik Hertzberg; "Pipe Cleaner" by Joshua Hersh; "Osama's Bank Account" by Steve Coll; "Junior" by Jane Mayer; "The Master Plan" by Lawrence Wright; "Heaven's Gate" by Joan Acocella; and "Supermen" by Anthony Lane.

"For Which it Stands" by Hendrik Hertzberg; "The Hidden Power" by Jane Mayer; "Fred Willard, Tourist" by Tad Friend; "The Deepest Cut" by Christine Kenneally; and "Kryptology" by Anthony Lane.

"Ups and Downs" by Hendrik Hertzberg; "War Poet" by Dana Goodyear; "A Deadly Interrogation" by Jane Mayer; "The Malpractice Mess" by Atul Gawande; "A Place in the Sun" by Sasha Frere-Jones; and "Parent Traps" by Anthony Lane.