April 5/12, 2021, Issue

Cover art by: Adrià Fruitós

Feature

The Night the Nazis Came to Murder My Grandfather

John Heartfield was a lifelong foe of fascism who used his art as a weapon—and whose devastating portrayals of Hitler, Goering, and Mussolini nearly cost him his life.
John J Heartfield and Lance Hansen
What Janet Yellen Can Do at Treasury

After the ravages of the pandemic, the American economy needs more than stabilizing—it needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. Will Yellen be up to the task?
Joan Walsh
Black Immigrants Matter

In immigration, as in policing, every arm of the US incarceration and deportation machine brings down a hefty amount of its weight onto the backs of Black people.
Jack Herrera

Editorial

Biden’s Next Goal Should Be Full Employment

Tight labor markets give workers power.
Mike Konczal
What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions

The water defenders recognized the fight was less a contest of right versus left than right versus wrong.
Robin Broad and John Cavanagh
Adéu and Bon Viatge to a Brilliant ‘Nation’ Comrade

Roane Carey, who is leaving The Nation after more than three decades, edited everyone from Edward Said to Margaret Atwood, bringing his signature erudition to each article he touched.
Adam Shatz
The American Rescue Plan Marks a Fresh Start in Fighting Poverty

Even as wages have stagnated, Americans have considered poverty to be a personal failing. The American Rescue Plan leaves that behind.
Bryce Covert for The Nation
Why Andrew Cuomo Must Resign

There is no investigation that can give New Yorkers a governor we can trust not to abuse power and lie.
Zephyr Teachout for The Nation
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Column

The Importance of Logging Off

How Neera Tanden’s hard-punching tweets knocked her right out of Joe Biden’s cabinet.
Jeet Heer
Governor Cuomo Needs to Stop Talking About His Feelings

The issue isn’t how he feels. The issue is accountability. But the responses by the governor and the press still tell us a lot about whose feelings matter.
Alexis Grenell
Stephen Miller Watching the TV News

Calvin Trillin

Books & the Arts

Judas and the Black Messiah’s Stark Binaries

A new biopic of Fred Hampton poses a question: Will a film ever capture the radical spirit of the Black Panthers?
Stephen Kearse
Ami Ayalon’s Political Journey

In Friendly Fire, the former Shin Bet director offers two narratives—one of the story that Israel tells the world, the other of the story Israel tries not to tell the world.
Raja Shehadeh
Kazuo Ishiguro at the End of the End of History

In his new novel Klara and the Sun, the British novelist offers us a narrative as much about our own world as about any imagined future.
Katie Fitzpatrick
The Untold History of Freedom

A new book charts the tension between individual and collective notions of liberty.
Tyler Stovall
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