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January/February 2019 Issue
January/February 2019 Cover
The president’s extraordinary emergency powers, how Tibet went crazy for hoops, rescuing American exceptionalism, and why we’re so angry. Plus a new term for ‘LGBTQ,’ modern feminism’s RBG obsession, how authoritarians wage war on women, fiction by Samanta Schweblin, and more. View Magazine
  • The Real Roots of American Rage
    Charles Duhigg
  • The Alarming Scope of the President’s Emergency Powers
    Elizabeth Goitein
  • Tibet Is Going Crazy for Hoops
    Louie Lazar
  • What Donald Trump and Dick Cheney Got Wrong About America
    Jake Sullivan
  • Toward Happy Civilization
    Samanta Schweblin
  • The New Authoritarians Are Waging War on Women
    Peter Beinart
Poem

How to Sing

By Elizabeth Spires
January/February 2019 Issue
Melinda Josie
from a hymnal
Moderately
Moderately slow
Moderately fast
With vigor
In flowing style
Boldly
Well marked
Fervently
With dignity
With great dignity
Joyously
Joyously, but not too fast
Resolutely
With stately vigor
Rather slowly
Not too slowly
Majestically
With joyous dignity
With movement
With flow

About the Author

Elizabeth Spires
Elizabeth Spires’s most recent collection is A Memory of the Future.

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