Angie Nixon Is Fighting for the Right to Read
The Florida Senate candidate responded to Republican book-banning schemes by opening a bookstore.
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October 2026 Issue
Cover art by Lily Qian
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Editorial
Subscribers Only We Are Living Under Roy Cohnian Logic
The political fixer created a career for himself as a self-promoting, ubiquitous hustler. Like Trump, he got away with it by having the right friends.
Why AOC Made Her Egg Freezing Public
By sharing her fertility-preservation attempts, AOC invites us to consider how to really support families.
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
The Weapons Manufacturer Next Door
It’s been six years since I began attending pro-Palestine demonstrations. The most recent campaign at the Brooklyn Navy Yard feels different.
Column
Subscribers Only Populists Can’t Be Populist if They Suppress the Vote
The crusade against ballot access, like virtually every other facet of Trump’s agenda, does nothing to serve the interests of “the people,” but our press is too brain-dead to notice.
Chris Lehmann
The Misremembered ’90s of “The Backrooms”
The Gen Z filmmaker presents the decade not as it was but as reproduced via nostalgic threads on Internet forums.
There’s Nothing Traditional About Tradwives
Propagandists for stay-at-home domesticity are monetizing a fantasy—and they’re not really staying at home.
Letters
Subscribers Only Letters From the October 2026 Issue
The long shadow of AIPAC… The AI revolution will not be televised… Speaking of taxes… Reporting on abortion… (online only)
Feature
Abdul El-Sayed Diagnoses American Politics
A conversation with Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee about public health, outside money, and a new kind of politics.
Subscribers Only The UAW Wave Has Hit Our Shores
The union’s endorsements of insurgent candidates led to big wins this summer. It’s all part of a strategy to remake American politics for the working class.
Subscribers Only Can Senator Jon Ossoff Hold Onto His Seat?
He’s the most vulnerable incumbent in the Senate race, and his state is ground zero for the new Jim Crow attacks on voting rights.
Subscribers Only Two Years After Helene, North Carolina’s Unsettled Recovery
The state has become a testing ground under an eviscerated FEMA and a missing-in-action “recovery czar,” Michael Whatley, with big political ambitions.
Subscribers Only The Fissures and Fractures Behind the Right’s Pink Facade
At Turning Point USA’s women’s summit, some young women are turning more hard-line—but others are fleeing conservatism altogether.
A Reckoning Comes for Nepal
A year after its Gen Z uprising, Nepal faces a struggle not only for democracy and human rights but for climate survival.
Is the Israel Lobby Doomed?
Pro-Israel influence over US politics is weaker than ever—but that doesn’t mean the lobby’s demise is inevitable.
Books & the Arts
Can We Save Democracy?
Hélène Landemore’s case for an alternative system of popular government.
Subscribers Only Love and Literature in Leslie Fiedler’s America
When will the American novel grown up?
Subscribers Only The Palestines of Soraya Antonius and Annemarie Jacir
In The Lord and in Palestine '36, the story of Mandatory Palestine comes into focus.
Subscribers Only The Making of the Millennial Working Class
A new book follows a new generation of labor organizers as they attempt to unionize their workplaces.
Subscribers Only The Bund and the Radical History of Jewish Anti-Zionism.
Molly Crabapple’s Here Where We Live Is Our Country revisits the past of the Jewish Labor Bund and considers what it might mean for our future.
Subscribers Only Imani Thompson’s Grad-school Thriller
In Honey, the novelist offers a different take on the campus satire.
