War or Peace Is the Most Neglected Issue on the November Ballot
But most Americans don’t know it because the media isn’t asking candidates about disarmament, diplomacy, and out-of-control military spending.
John NicholsStates
Exclusive: Texas Governor Greg Abbott Used Covid Aid to Pay for a Border Wall
Texas steered $1 billion in federal pandemic dollars to Operation Lone Star, which was used to hire thousands of guards, expand the wall, and bus migrants out of state.
Barbara KoeppelClimate Change
Princeton Activists Just Won a Historic Victory for Climate Research
After a decade of student organizing, Princeton made a pledge to divest its endowment and reject fossil fuel money. Will more universities follow?
Chelsey Gilchrist and Claire KaufmanNuclear Arms and Proliferation
Not Even Nuclear War Will Stop the Fighting in Ukraine
Kyiv deserves our economic support and military aid, but not American troops or nuclear ambiguity.
Kai Bird and The NationFall Books
I.B. Singer’s Language of Everyday Life
By choosing to write in Yiddish rather than Hebrew, the young Singer declared his allegiance to the here and now rather than a biblical past or a Zionist future.
Adam KirschHas Labor Become More or Less Powerful Over the Last Two Decades?
Neither Aaron Benanav’s Automation and the Future of Work nor Sarah Jaffe’s Work Won’t Love You Back was written with the pandemic in mind but together they serve as an indispensable guide to the broader dynamics of work in the contemporary moment.
Alyssa BattistoniThe Mixtapes of Hua Hsu
In his new memoir, Stay True, the New Yorker critic offers a coming-of-age story that doubles as a tale about friendship, music, and the politics of knowing oneself.
Summer Kim LeePolitics
War or Peace Is the Most Neglected Issue on the November Ballot
But most Americans don’t know it because the media isn’t asking candidates about disarmament, diplomacy, and out-of-control military spending.
John Nichols
The Supreme Court Is Ready to Take Down More of the Voting Rights Act
Make no mistake: The racist redistricting map preferred by Alabama Republicans will win the day. But how the court gets to that decision is an open and important matter.
Elie Mystal
Hyde Reminds Us That Abortion Is an Economic Justice Issue
On the 46th anniversary of the Hyde Amendment, 2022 midterm candidates would do well to remember that abortion is an economic justice issue.
Atima Omara
Culture
Do Sanctions Work?
A new history examines their use in the past and considers their effectiveness for the future.
James Stafford
How the Police Became an Occupying Army
Riotsville, U.S.A. documents the origins and rise of what the activist George Jackson called the “the corporate-military-police complex.”
Yasmina Price
Thulani Davis’s Freedom Visions
Her new history of the Civil War and Reconstruction examines the ways in which Black Americans formed networks of self-reliance in their pursuit of emancipation.
Elias RodriquesWorld
Not Even Nuclear War Will Stop the Fighting in Ukraine
Kyiv deserves our economic support and military aid, but not American troops or nuclear ambiguity.
Kai Bird and The Nation
British Prime Minister Liz Truss Is No Margaret Thatcher
The Tory leader’s pledge to deliver neoliberal “shock therapy” brought her own party conference to the brink of open revolt.
Steve Howell
Mahsa Amini and the Women of Iran
Twenty-two-year-old Mahsa Amini died in police custody after being arrested by the “morality police” for improperly wearing a hijab. Her murder sparkled an ongoing series of protests in Iran and around the world.
Andrea Arroyo, Nasrin Sheykhi and Emanuele Del RossoNation Voices
Watch and Listen
Listen: Luke Savage on the Strange Endurance of Neoliberalism
On this week’s episode of The Time of Monsters, a discussion of the zombie survival of the centrist consensus.
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Listen: Can Democrats Hold the Senate? Plus: Ken Burns’s “The U.S. and the Holocaust"
On this week’s episode of the Start Making Sense podcast, John Nichols comments on the future of the Senate, and David Nasaw reviews a new documentary.
September 29, 2022
Listen: Bhaskar Sunkara on Bernie in 2024, Plus Chris Lehmann on the “Brooks Brothers Riot”
On this week’s episode of Start Making Sense, The Nation’s president and its D.C. Bureau chief join the podcast for discussions on the democratic presidential bid and a Republican riot that preceded the Capitol insurrection by two decades.
September 22, 2022
From the Magazine
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October 17/24, 2022, Issue
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Editorial
Is the Idea of Masculinity Worth Saving? By Laura Kipnis and Phil Christman
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Books & the Arts
The Mixtapes of Hua Hsu By Summer Kim Lee
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Feature
The Rise of Mandela Barnes By John Nichols
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