Lessons From Louise Glück
A conversation with the poet and Nobel laureate about her career, teaching, her next book, and more.
Sam HuberCoronavirus
How Much Longer Can We Keep Doing This Without a Vaccine?
All parents are struggling during the pandemic, but those with kids too young to be vaccinated are barely holding on.
Regina MahonePalestine
The Cruel, Petty Killing of an Anti-Occupation Activist
Hajj Suleiman, an elder of the anti-occupation movement, was run over by a tow truck while protesting an Israeli “operation” to confiscate cars in his village.
Ben EhrenreichLabor
Concrete Actions Toward Worker Power
Three hundred Teamsters in the Seattle area are bringing the local construction industry to a standstill.
Kim KellyPolitics
Democrats Failed Forward on Voting Rights
Biden forced the Republicans, and two Democrats, to go on record saying voting rights don’t matter—or at least, not more than preserving the filibuster.
Joan Walsh and The Nation
We Wouldn’t Be in This Mess if D.C. Were a State
The problem in the Senate runs deeper than Sinema and Manchin. It’s an unrepresentative chamber that must be made more representative.
John Nichols
On Hunger Strike for Voting Rights
Unite Here Local 11 has repeatedly reached out to Kyrsten Sinema to express deep dismay at the prospect that the several voter protection bills circulating in D.C. won’t pass in the Senate.
Sasha Abramsky
Culture
Terry Teachout and the Last of the Conservative Critics
He was a generation younger than Joan Didion and her cohort of critics who got their start at National Review. With his death, their strain of criticism seems not only rare but perhaps extinct.
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Lessons From Louise Glück
A conversation with the poet and Nobel laureate about her career, teaching, her next book, and more.
Sam Huber
Strange and Intimate Encounters With Kathy Acker
In Philosophy for Spiders, McKenzie Wark revisits Acker’s work to fashion a different kind of literary theory—one more personal and erotic.
Alyse BurnsideWorld
The Cruel, Petty Killing of an Anti-Occupation Activist
Hajj Suleiman, an elder of the anti-occupation movement, was run over by a tow truck while protesting an Israeli “operation” to confiscate cars in his village.
Ben Ehrenreich
Akwasi Frimpong’s Struggle to Represent Africa at the Winter Olympics
The IOC bureaucracy should let the skeleton competitor claim his rightful place at the Beijing Games.
Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff
Automated Warfare Is Nothing New
It didn’t just start with drones—and it won’t stop with them.
Rebecca GordonNation Voices
Watch and Listen
Listen: Eric Dickerson Brings the Smoke
We talk to NFL great Eric Dickerson about his new book.
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Listen: What Do the 1984 Olympics Teach Us?
Sports Illustrated’s L. Jon Wertheim joins the show to talk about his new book.
January 11, 2022
From the Magazine
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January 24/31, 2022, Issue
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Books & the Arts
Rise of the Far-Right Ultras By Kim Phillips-Fein
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Editorial
The Front Lines of Omicron By Adam Gaffney
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Column
How the Left Alienates Jews By Alexis Grenell
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