“I like Bernie,” he says. “Trump’s just in it for laughs. I don’t think I’m going to vote.”

• Issue 26
• Canvassing
• Nikil Saval

In 2016, Twitter, like money, was speech.

• Issue 26
• #worstelectionever
• Mark Krotov

“You are the problem, Politician,” the Trumpian spat back.

• Issue 26
• Prince Trump
• Stephen Squibb

Women’s economic empowerment was at the heart of Clinton’s politics in the ’90s, and it has been at the heart of her…

• Issue 26
• The Woman's Party
• Namara Smith

“You must promise me — that you will not spend the next eight weeks ranting at me about colonialism.”

• Issue 26
• Rhodocycles
• Nakul Krishna

It is not his talent that made this sentencing a watershed. It is hers.

• Issue 26
• The Stanford Letters
• Sarah Nicole Prickett

She called it “doing money.” MEET ME TO DO MONEY, she would text. I’M IN THE CHILDREN’S SECTION.

• Issue 26
• The Clean
• Lizzie Feidelson

He’s still on top: / spinning out his dialectic / pillorying the fascists / demanding that his books also be burned on the square

• Issue 26
• Brecht, 1933
• Kirill Medvedev

“Your second mouth is celestially gentle.” / I say nothing. I’m Angela Merkel.

• Issue 26
• The Language of Violence
• Elena Kostyleva

you break off a piece of delicious biscotti / yeah. that would be a lot more realistic / after all you’re so interested in realism

• Issue 26
• Four Poems
• Roman Osminkin

Life is hard, death is distant. Let’s multiply this by two and make it simpler.

• Issue 26
• The "Afghan" Market: Kuzminki
• Keti Chukhrov

This is a book, in large part, about “cultural capital,” with those quotation marks locked on like handcuffs.

• Issue 26
• Modern Love
• Tobi Haslett

With so many other smart magazines publishing articles that could have been lifted from RT.com, it is difficult to swim against…

• Issue 26
• Letters