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April 18/25, 2022, Issue

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Editorial

Congress Is Dragging Its Feet on Recognizing a Staffers’ Union

Congressional workers often struggle to get by, and they lack legal protections to organize and collectively bargain.

Aída Chávez

It’s Time to End Forced Arbitration Completely

Congress essentially admitted that forced arbitration is a corrupt practice—but only banned it in one area.

Bryce Covert

The Nomination Black Women Have Been Waiting For

We have more than earned this seat at the most powerful table in our country.

Candace Bond-Theriault

A car sits in front of a burned apartment building and pile of rubble. A soldier stands in front of the car.

Russia’s War in Ukraine Has Shattered the Old World Order

As a new Iron Curtain threatens to divide Europe, progressives must face the dangers of a resurgent militarism—and seize the opportunities to advance our priorities.

Michael T. Klare for The Nation

Column

Let’s Start Charging Men to Have Babies

Mothers are pushed out of the workforce. Maybe it’s time for a market solution.

Alexis Grenell

No Good Can Come From Downplaying Covid

Democrats must figure out how to discuss the hard truths about the pandemic, or it could cost them.

John Nichols

Tucker Carson on the War in Ukraine

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Letters From the April 18/25, 2022, Issue

Sequim for the win… Miscarriages of justice (web only)… The right to communicate (web only)…

Our Readers and Tom Gogola and Michelle Chen

Feature

Shrinking the Economy to Save the World

The degrowth movement argues that the only way toward an ecologically sustainable world is to redirect economies away from market imperatives.

Kyle Paoletta

Kathy Hochul Is the Un-Cuomo

New York’s accidental governor has a centrist past, but many progressives say we shouldn’t give up on her just yet.

Joan Walsh

Black Like Me? “Bridgerton” and the Fantasy of a Non-Racist Past

We can imagine a world where the only thing wrong with racial inequality is that non-white people are not allowed to share in the spoils of empire—but would we really want to live ...

Gary Younge