Week of June 17

• Featured Interview
  This Body Is a Gift: Natalie Diaz

  Evangeline Riddiford Graham and Natalie Diaz
• Politics
  How ‘The Squad’ Has Caved to Corporate Power

  Leonard C. Goodman

  Criminal defense attorney and co-owner of the newly independent Reader
  Democrats and Anti-Trump Conservatives Must Join Forces to Defend Democracy

  Adam Littlestone-Luria

  Furman Academic Scholar at New York University School of Law
• Books
  Slavery Made Economic Thinking Possible

  Jennifer L. Morgan

  Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis & History; Chair of the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, NYU
  Confederate Monuments Are Not History

  Claire Potter and Karen L. Cox
• Our Columnists
  A Shocking Win in Texas

  Pat Garofalo

  Author and director of state and local policy at the American Economic Liberties Project
  In Defense of Democracy

  Heather Cox Richardson

  Professor of History, Boston College
  How the Press Corps Severs Public Debate from the Constraints of History, Creating Space for Real Harm

  John Stoehr 

  Visiting assistant professor of public policy and liberal studies at Wesleyan University, and editor and publisher of the Editorial Board