The Climate Apocalypse According to Joy Williams
With her first novel in 20 years, Harrow, the radical environmentalist envisions an uncompromising politics necessary for defending the natural world.
Stephen PiccarellaScience and Health
Covid Is Here to Stay. This Is How We Should Respond.
Learning to live with Covid-19 is not an individual state of mind.
Abdullah ShihiparPolitics
There’s No Good Reason FBI Director Chris Wray Still Has a Job
Wray has a pattern of refusing to pursue powerful men like Brett Kavanaugh and Larry Nassar on behalf of women and people of color.
Elie MystalOccupy Movement
What Occupy Wall Street Organizers Would Do Differently
Do they still stand by the leaderless revolution?
Various ContributorsOccupy at 10
Did Occupy Wall Street Make a Difference?
Flash in the pan or the prelude to political organizing as we know it today?
Ruth Milkman, Stephanie Luce and Penny LewisTen years ago this month, Occupy Wall Street unexpectedly inaugurated a new wave of protest. The domestic manifestation of a worldwide explosion of digitally networked social movements, it scaled up rapidly, attracting enormous public and media attention. But the protesters were evicted from New York City’s Zuccotti Park and other… Continue Reading >
Politics
Kyrsten Sinema’s Grapes of Wealth
The Arizona senator’s wine-soaked politics offer a bold and colorful bouquet of disparate notes, with a hint of corruption.
Tom Gogola
Joe Manchin Giveth on Voting Rights—and Joe Manchin Taketh Away
The West Virginia senator has finally agreed to support critical voting rights legislation, but refuses to do what’s necessary to pass it.
Elie Mystal
Blinken Derangement Syndrome
The party that brought us the Benghazi hearings has a new obsession.
John Nichols
World
Germany’s Secret Success: Turning Immigration Into a Nonissue
Despite predictions of electoral disaster, Angela Merkel’s decision to admit 1.7 million asylum seekers has become politically popular.
Linda Mannheim
Sweatshops Won’t Help the World’s Poor, but Unions Could
Influential liberals said low-paid manufacturing jobs would help the Global South. They were wrong then—and they’re especially wrong now.
James NorthNation Voices
Culture
In the Shadow of 9/11
Did the War on Terror put our democracy at risk—or reveal its flaws?
Samuel Moyn
Adalbert Stifter’s Disappearing World
His uncanny writing bears witness to the early stages of capitalism offering a glimpse of the natural world before modernity.
Ratik Asokan
Who’s to Blame in “The White Lotus”?
In the weeks since the release of Mike White’s latest HBO series, debate has centered on the show’s politics. Is it liberal satire or spectacle?
Vikram MurthiWatch and Listen
Listen: Abortion Politics and Republican Power
Rick Perlstein on the Texas law, plus Eric Foner on Tulsa.
September 9, 2021
View: The Fierce, Enduring Legacy of America’s Anti–Afghanistan War Protests
These photos from 20 years ago remind us that resistance to the war began even before the war itself.
September 9, 2021
