Letters From the September 5/12, 2022, Issue Letters From the September 5/12, 2022, Issue
Housing follies... A tale of two Nations... Protest in a new era...
Aug 23, 2022 / Our Readers
How Worldwide Famine Would Follow Even a “Limited” Nuclear War How Worldwide Famine Would Follow Even a “Limited” Nuclear War
A landmark study demands attention.
Aug 22, 2022 / Matt Bivens
Balkan Dispatch: Bulgaria’s Crisis of Confidence Balkan Dispatch: Bulgaria’s Crisis of Confidence
Caught between a Russian past and a NATO future, the poorest country in the EU faces a political crisis—and a struggle over competing visions of national pride.
Aug 22, 2022 / Jeet Heer
Whose Rules? Our Rules! in the Rules-Based International Order Whose Rules? Our Rules! in the Rules-Based International Order
How the US leads by helping other people kill each other.
Aug 22, 2022 / Column / David Bromwich
Puerto Rico Has a Big-Pharma Problem Puerto Rico Has a Big-Pharma Problem
The US territory gives pharmaceutical companies big tax breaks that could otherwise be invested in its communities, where the revenue is deeply needed.
Aug 19, 2022 / Julio López Varona
Salman Rushdie Joins Indian Writers on 75 Years of Independence Salman Rushdie Joins Indian Writers on 75 Years of Independence
Shortly before he was attacked, Rushdie joined with dozens of Indian literary artists to lament the rise of Hindu nationalism and the fragile state of the country's democracy.
Aug 18, 2022 / Pranay Somayajula
Why Walden Bello’s Arrest and Detention for Cyberlibel Demands Attention Why Walden Bello’s Arrest and Detention for Cyberlibel Demands Attention
The charge is a brazen case of weaponing the law against critics.
Aug 18, 2022 / Walden Bello
Abortion Rights Victories in Red States, Plus the Crisis in Haiti Abortion Rights Victories in Red States, Plus the Crisis in Haiti
On this week’s episode of the Start Making Sense podcast, Katha Pollitt on choice, and Amy Wilentz on Port-au-Prince.
Aug 18, 2022 / Podcast / Jon Wiener and Start Making Sense
What the Military’s Recruitment Crisis Means for America What the Military’s Recruitment Crisis Means for America
The human frailties that hinder enlistment are symptoms of something more sinister than a military lacking bodies.
Aug 17, 2022 / Andrea Mazzarino
The Kenyan Kakistocracy The Kenyan Kakistocracy
What are we supposed to do when the electoral system consistently yields terrible candidates?
Aug 17, 2022 / Nanjala Nyabola