Print Magazine August 26-September 2, 2019, Issue Cover art by: Reuters / Jaime Saldarriaga (photo) Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue Editorial Brianna Wu Is Used to Fighting Bullies The Gamergate veteran tells The Nation why she’s challenging a Democratic incumbent in the Massachusetts congressional primary. John Nichols The Democratic Debates Don’t Need to Be This Awful Progressive Democrats can and should demand deeper and sharper lines of questioning and more diverse moderators. John Nichols After the El Paso Massacre, the Choice Is Green Socialism or Eco-Fascism The alleged shooter mixes standard Trumpian racism with Malthusian fascism. Jeet Heer Why Americans Should Support BDS Inspired by the civil rights and anti-apartheid movements, it calls for Palestinian liberation on terms of full equality with Israelis and categorically opposes all forms of racism... Omar Barghouti Column Jeffrey Epstein’s Science of Sleaze Epstein’s scientist “friends” should have known better than to associate with a crackpot transhumanist. Katha Pollitt John Ratcliffe as a Director of National Intelligence Nominee Calvin Trillin Boris Johnson Interviewed Me for His Column. Here’s What Didn’t Make It Into Print. On Brexit, race, and criminal justice, Britain’s new prime minister has always played both sides for maximum expediency. Patricia J. Williams Letters Letters From the August 26-September 2, 2019, Issue Eyes wide open… The other stain… Sanders’s exceptionalism?… Human rights v. propaganda (web only)… Our Readers and Omar Barghouti Feature The American Workplace Still Won’t Accommodate Pregnant Workers Pregnant women face discrimination up and down the economic ladder—but low-wage workers suffer the most. Bryce Covert The Broken Promise of Colombia’s Peace Deal Will President Iván Duque reignite his country’s 50-year-long civil war? Jonathan Levi and Marta Orrantia Books & the Arts The Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The Supreme Court justice may have been heralded by many of his progressive peers, but the legacy he left behind is far more ambiguous. Brenda Wineapple Richard Holbrooke and the Lost Idealism of a Generation Holbrooke’s public and personal life captures the contradictions of a cohort of liberals that came of age in the 1960s. David Klion Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the Long Arc of Reconstruction In his new book, Gates argues that the history of American democracy has always been one of constant push and pull. Robert Greene II Recent Issues See All "swipe left below to view more recent issues"Swipe → October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 June 2024 May 2024 See All x
Brianna Wu Is Used to Fighting Bullies The Gamergate veteran tells The Nation why she’s challenging a Democratic incumbent in the Massachusetts congressional primary. John Nichols
The Democratic Debates Don’t Need to Be This Awful Progressive Democrats can and should demand deeper and sharper lines of questioning and more diverse moderators. John Nichols
After the El Paso Massacre, the Choice Is Green Socialism or Eco-Fascism The alleged shooter mixes standard Trumpian racism with Malthusian fascism. Jeet Heer
Why Americans Should Support BDS Inspired by the civil rights and anti-apartheid movements, it calls for Palestinian liberation on terms of full equality with Israelis and categorically opposes all forms of racism... Omar Barghouti
Jeffrey Epstein’s Science of Sleaze Epstein’s scientist “friends” should have known better than to associate with a crackpot transhumanist. Katha Pollitt
Boris Johnson Interviewed Me for His Column. Here’s What Didn’t Make It Into Print. On Brexit, race, and criminal justice, Britain’s new prime minister has always played both sides for maximum expediency. Patricia J. Williams
Letters From the August 26-September 2, 2019, Issue Eyes wide open… The other stain… Sanders’s exceptionalism?… Human rights v. propaganda (web only)… Our Readers and Omar Barghouti
The American Workplace Still Won’t Accommodate Pregnant Workers Pregnant women face discrimination up and down the economic ladder—but low-wage workers suffer the most. Bryce Covert
The Broken Promise of Colombia’s Peace Deal Will President Iván Duque reignite his country’s 50-year-long civil war? Jonathan Levi and Marta Orrantia
The Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The Supreme Court justice may have been heralded by many of his progressive peers, but the legacy he left behind is far more ambiguous. Brenda Wineapple
Richard Holbrooke and the Lost Idealism of a Generation Holbrooke’s public and personal life captures the contradictions of a cohort of liberals that came of age in the 1960s. David Klion
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the Long Arc of Reconstruction In his new book, Gates argues that the history of American democracy has always been one of constant push and pull. Robert Greene II