Biden Just Made Marijuana Reform a Major 2022 Issue. Democrats Should Run With It.
Voters of all backgrounds support pardoning Americans with federal convictions for marijuana possession.
John NicholsEconomy
Will Gas Prices Tank Electoral Prospects for Democrats?
In many swing states, polling shows voters are concerned about inflation and economic hardship over all other issues—and they blame the party in power.
Sasha AbramskyBooks and Ideas
The Decline of Progressive Publishing Houses Is a Loss for Everyone
The end of Pantheon and Metropolitan augers a strange and unchallenging world of ideas.
Tom EngelhardtAbortion
Jessa Crispin Speaks From the Heartland
The author’s latest book, My Three Dads, blends personal memory with American history, offering incisive cultural criticism that turns to small-town values to understand American ideals.
Brianna Di MondaFall 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
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 Koeppel
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
Culture
Do Sanctions Work?
A new history examines their use in the past and considers their effectiveness for the future.
James Stafford
Jessa Crispin Speaks From the Heartland
The author’s latest book, My Three Dads, blends personal memory with American history, offering incisive cultural criticism that turns to small-town values to understand American ideals.
Brianna Di Monda
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 PriceWorld
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.
October 5, 2022
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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Feature
The Rise of Mandela Barnes By John Nichols
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Column
A Farewell to Arms By Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
I.B. Singer’s Language of Everyday Life By Adam Kirsch
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